Patti Smith - Jazz Workshop 1976 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Dj Maxanne Talks (Live) (01:24)
2. Real Good Time Together (Live) (03:19)
3. Privilege (Live) (04:06)
4. Ain't It Strange (Live) (07:47)
5. Kimberly (Live) (05:37)
6. Redondo Beach (Live) (04:49)
7. Free Money (Live) (05:02)
8. Pale Blue Eyes (Live) (07:06)
9. Pumping (Live) (04:27)
10. Birdland (Live) (16:50)
11. My Mafia (Live) (03:49)


 moreBorn in Chicago and raised in Philadelphia and nearby New Jersey, Smith
eventually made her way to New York City, where she spent the early part of the
'70s immersed in the New York art scene, living with photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel and developing herself in a variety of
creative mediums from poetry to painting to playwriting. By 1974, she'd begun to
establish herself as a rock musician, playing shows with guitarist/bassist Lenny
Kaye, then assembling what would soon become the Patti Smith Group. After Kaye,
pianist Richard Sohl was the first to come on board, followed shortly after by
Czechoslovakian-born guitarist/bassist Ivan Král and drummer Jay Dee
Daugherty.

After independently releasing the "Hey Joe" b/w "Piss Factory" single, Patti
Smith Group became the first of the CBGB-associated punk acts to score a major
record deal when famed A&R man Clive Davis signed them to Arista in 1975.
Released in December of that year, Horses fused Smith's unconventional post-beat
poet lyrical style with a primitive rock minimalism that was striking and wholly
unique. Though the album was credited solely to Smith, the collective force of
Smith, Kaye, Sohl, Král, and Daugherty together signified the stark power of
the burgeoning punk movement, and by the time 1976's Radio Ethiopia arrived, it
was attributed to Patti Smith Group. During a January 1977 tour date in Florida,
Smith suffered a serious neck injury after falling from the stage into the
concrete orchestra pit. Following a lengthy period of recovery and physical
therapy, she and the group returned to produce what would be their commercial
breakout in 1978's Easter. Produced by Jimmy Iovine and featuring the Bruce
Springsteen co-written hit "Because the Night," Easter was widely hailed as one
of the year's best albums and an artistic return to form after the somewhat
difficult Radio Ethiopia. It was also notable for the absence of keyboardist
Sohl, who was temporarily replaced in the studio by Bruce Brody.

As the '70s came to a close, so would the tenure of the original Patti Smith
Group. Following the 1979 release of their fourth album, Wave, Smith and her
newlywed husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith relocated to Detroit, where she would spend
most of the decade in semi-retirement while raising a family. Král would go
on to work with Iggy Pop, compose music for a number of independent films, and
record a number of solo works in his native Czech Republic. Sohl returned to
record with Smith on her 1988 solo album, Dream of Life, before suffering a
fatal heart attack in 1990. Since the mid-'90s, Smith's longtime creative foils
Kaye and Daugherty, along with late-period bassist Tony Shanahan, have served as
her primary band, and even though the name "Patti Smith Group" would no longer
appear on album covers, they have remained her closest collaborators on-stage
and in the studio. Original Patti Smith Group guitarist Ivan Král died on
February 2, 2020, at the age of 71. © Timothy Monger



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