Jazz at "The Table": On the Air with Guido Sinclair (2019 DVD)
A private pressing of DVDs for musicians and friends of Guido Sinclair and Nature's Table; available to the public through libraries of CU.*
This three part series serves as an introduction to the vast trove of footage captured at "The Table" by Guido's friend and student, Knut Bauer (c. 1986), after whom the song "Knute's Tune," from the 2017 Hologroove LP "O Utopia," was named.
Sinclair Greenwell Jr. (December 1935 - July 7, 1992) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was also known as Guido Sinclair, Sonny Harrison, and Junnie. He performed in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois...
He performed frequently at Nature's Table.
"...it wasn't until [two-time 'Chicagoan of the Year' Ernest Dawkins] heard the alto sax of Guido Sinclair that he knew this was the instrument he wanted to play."
Title: Jazz at "The Table": On the Air with Guido Sinclair
Author: Knut Bauer; Kris Bauer
Publisher: Digitalia Records, © 2019
Format: DVD
Contents:
Pt 1: 1. Blues for Tyson (i.e. The Squirrel) - Guido's signature tune.
Pt 1: 2. Summertime - Guido at The Table.
Pt 2: 1. I'll Walk Alone - Guido sings; solo piano at the Bauer house.
Pt 2: 2. My Little Brown Book - Von Freeman & John Young; an impromptu duet.
Pt 2: 3. Well, You Needn't - Guido at The Table.
Pt 3: 1. Days of Wine and Roses - Guido with strings.
(Plus: a special James Brown interpretation with Sorgum!)
Produced by Knut Bauer, 1986; edited by Kris Bauer, 2019.
OCLC: 1142971740
Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso Peter "Madcat" Ruth (who played with Dave Brubeck and Ken Nordine), recorded his first album, "Live at Nature's Table," in Urbana, Illinois, in 1982.
A private pressing of DVDs for musicians and friends of Guido Sinclair and Nature's Table; available to the public through libraries of CU.*
This three part series serves as an introduction to the vast trove of footage captured at "The Table" by Guido's friend and student, Knut Bauer (c. 1986), after whom the song "Knute's Tune," from the 2017 Hologroove LP "O Utopia," was named.
Sinclair Greenwell Jr. (December 1935 - July 7, 1992) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was also known as Guido Sinclair, Sonny Harrison, and Junnie. He performed in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois...
He performed frequently at Nature's Table.
"...it wasn't until [two-time 'Chicagoan of the Year' Ernest Dawkins] heard the alto sax of Guido Sinclair that he knew this was the instrument he wanted to play."
Title: Jazz at "The Table": On the Air with Guido Sinclair
Author: Knut Bauer; Kris Bauer
Publisher: Digitalia Records, © 2019
Format: DVD
Contents:
Pt 1: 1. Blues for Tyson (i.e. The Squirrel) - Guido's signature tune.
Pt 1: 2. Summertime - Guido at The Table.
Pt 2: 1. I'll Walk Alone - Guido sings; solo piano at the Bauer house.
Pt 2: 2. My Little Brown Book - Von Freeman & John Young; an impromptu duet.
Pt 2: 3. Well, You Needn't - Guido at The Table.
Pt 3: 1. Days of Wine and Roses - Guido with strings.
(Plus: a special James Brown interpretation with Sorgum!)
Produced by Knut Bauer, 1986; edited by Kris Bauer, 2019.
OCLC: 1142971740
Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso Peter "Madcat" Ruth (who played with Dave Brubeck and Ken Nordine), recorded his first album, "Live at Nature's Table," in Urbana, Illinois, in 1982.
Listen to a 1987 interview with Guido: here.
*Archives Research Center, 1707 S. Orchard, Urbana, IL: Musical Americana Collection, circa 1900-2000 / Series 1: Sound Recordings and Films / Box 73 / Folder 9: https://archon.library.illinois.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=3128
Champaign Public Library: https://cucatalog.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=3.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=1236153
Worldcat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/jazz-at-the-table-on-the-air-with-guido-sinclair/oclc/1142971740
Happy Blues Orchestra - Knute's Tune (Single)
From the song book, "Saint Sinclair's Synerjazz: The Music of Guido Sinclair, 1935-1992," no other known recording of "Knute's Tune" exists, besides this string adorned, 2015 Happy Blues Orchestra rendition, with an intro/arrangement by DR's Eureka Brown.
The hologram record, etched by Tristan Duke, "was mastered by Jonathon Pines at Private Studios in Urbana and includes [the] arrangement of 'Knute's Tune,' a jazz composition by the late Guido Sinclair, a local legend on the jazz scene,"** as The News Gazette put it—a recording which was "very new and special,"*** according to Kert Semm of Recent Music Heroes.
It's just the fifth album with a hologram etched into it by Duke, who invented the process. The other albums include one by Jack White and the new "Star Wars" soundtrack, which was unveiled in London. (Ask 'Mimi,' Oct. 1, 2017)
**https://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/ask-mimi-oct-1-2017/article_a41cc708-f870-5f00-8121-8794e351cb16.html
***https://agier.blogspot.com/2015/12/eureka-brown-o-utopia-2015.html (2015 sneak peak)
The O Utopia song "We're All Gonna Die" made the Official 2016 Festive Fifty (#41)—Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's 50 "best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show (Wikipedia)." Jack White, who wrote the forward to the book John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes, called John Peel "the most important DJ who has ever lived."
O Utopia was It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine's "Vinyl of the Day" on April 6, 2019—it's articles have "been quoted or re-published in such publications as The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era, Mint Lounge, Ultimate Classic Rock, Dangerous Minds, and Metal Injection. (Wikipedia)"
All said and done, the release of the Hologroove ultimately renewed the interest in Guido's music that led to the acquisition of the archival videography, and the rest is... well, a footnote anyways.