{"id":4218,"date":"2013-09-01T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2013-09-01T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:53:44","slug":"john-bishop-trio-wade-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"John Bishop Trio – Wade In the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download John Bishop Trio – Wade In the Water<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the new week finds you well.<\/p>\n

The summer is finally at and end, at least the part of the summer marked by the invasion of the great horde, which tends to recede right around Labor Day, leaving the beaches to us locals for a few precious weeks.<\/p>\n

The fam and I had the opportunity to vacate in the latter half of August, during which the wife and I had our own little getaway.<\/p>\n

Naturally, that included a little bit of record digging (doesn\u2019t it always) which resulted in a nice fat stack of new additions to my crates, here and over at Iron Leg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I always enjoy stepping out of my own little vinyl ecosystem and into a new one, where the ebb and flow of wax is different, the stock is new (at least to me) and not quite as picked over as what I\u2019m used to.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t too many opportunities of that nature where I live, so it\u2019s a gas when I get my mitts on some stuff that I haven\u2019t seen\/heard before.<\/p>\n

Keep your eyes peeled for the results of said excavations in these pages.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is one of those great intersections of a song I love and a particularly hot performance.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wade In the Water\u2019 is a spiritual that goes back well over a century, <\/a>which is why the writing credits on this version \u2013 to Sam Cooke<\/strong> and JW Alexander<\/strong> \u2013 are odd, but that is neither here nor there, especially when you consider how often people were slapping their names on public domain compositions in order to pick up a little scratch.<\/p>\n

It has long been one of my favorite songs and I\u2019ve gotten into the habit of picking up records with versions of it (like I do with \u2019Soul Makossa\u2019) wherever I find them.<\/p>\n

I had been on the lookout for the record you see before you today \u2013 \u2018Bishop\u2019s Whirl\u2019 by the John Bishop Trio<\/strong> \u2013 for years. While it\u2019s not particularly scarce, it eluded me nonetheless so I was happy to score a copy at a nice price.<\/p>\n

John Bishop<\/strong> (born Gregory Ceurvorst<\/strong>) was a Chicago-based guitarist who ended up touring with Ray Charles<\/strong> (thus the Tangerine label) in the late 60s. He also played with Donny Hathaway, Ramsey Lewis<\/strong> and the Staple Singers<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

His version of \u2018Wade In the Water\u2019 \u2013 the full album edit is included here, there is a much shorter version on 45 \u2013 is smoking, with exceptional work by Bishop on guitar and organist Newell Burton, Jr.<\/strong> Bishop goes into a blazing solo around the three-minute mark that explodes around 4:15.<\/p>\n

It is an exceptional bit of hard-charging soul jazz, generating enough heat for the dancers (the 45 has a minor following with the Northern Soul crowd).<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been able to nail down whether or not this was Bishop\u2019s touring band, or a group put together for the date. Burton was a Sacramento-based organist, and the bassist on the record, Jerry Scheff<\/strong> is a renowned session player who started a long stint touring with Elvis Presley<\/strong> around the time that this album was recorded.<\/p>\n

That said, the rest of the album \u2013 with the exception of the soulful \u2018Way Out Back\u2019 \u2013 is fairly straight ahead jazz.<\/p>\n

Bishop settled in Chicago, where he played with his wife in the Georgia Frances Orchestra,<\/strong> until his passing in 2011 at the age of 65.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll see you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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