Julio Finn

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Julio Finn (* as Augustus "Gus" Arnold in Chicago ) is an American musician ( harmonica , vocals ) and author who has made a name for himself in the field of blues .

Live and act

Finn, brother of Jerome and Billy Boy Arnold , went to Europe when he was 19, where he performed and recorded with Memphis Slim and befriended James Baldwin . He changed his name in 1969. In Paris in 1969 and 1970 he was involved in some key recordings by Archie Shepp and the Art Ensemble of Chicago , in which the African-American tradition of the blues is entered into free jazz . In 1970 he and his blues band presented a first album under his own name, in which his cousin Chicago Beau was also involved. In the course of the 1970s, another album followed under his own name and a few productions with Errol Dunkley, Xavier Barnett and the British band Matumbi , with whom he advanced into reggae . In 1980 he played the harmonica on the albums LKJ in Dub and Bass Culture by Linton Kwesi Johnson and on some recordings by producer Dennis Bovell .

The following year he wrote the liner notes for his brother Billy Boy Arnold's album Crying and Pleading . In 1986 he published the book The Blues Man , which traced the anthropological and socio-cultural roots of the blues; two years later he published the collection Voices of Negritude . He continued to write short stories and essays. He is also the author of the television film We Are the Blues ( Arte , 1995).

Fonts

  • Nefario Allison & Busby, London 1974; ISBN 0850311330
  • Poet of the Cigar Sancho Panza Press, London 1982
  • The Blues Man: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas Quartet Books, London 1986; Interlink Pub Group, New York 1992; ISBN 0940793911
  • Voices of Negritude: with an anthology of Negritude poems translated from the French, Portuguese, and Spanish Quartet Books, London 1988; ISBN 0704325853

Discography

  • Julio Finn Blues Band Rainbows All Over My Blues ( Barclay Records 1970)
  • Julio Finn Blues Band Deal for Service (Barclay Records 1972)
  • Julio Finn / Dennis Bovell Nasty / Foul Play (1980)
as a sideman
  • Archie Shepp Blasé ( BYG actuel 1969)
  • Archie Shepp Black Gipsy (America / Prestige 1969)
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago Certain Blacks (America 1970)
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson LKJ in Dub (Mango 1980)
  • Blackbeard I Wah Dub (More Cut 1980)
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson Independant Intavenshan ( Iceland ed. 1988)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b short portrait
  2. ↑ Edward Komara, Peter Lee (Eds.) Blues Encyclopedia Routledge 2006, p. 444
  3. ↑ On the other hand, Bman's Blues Report erroneously assumes that he is identical to Jerome Arnold and that he only changed his name around 1978.
  4. ↑ We Are the Blues (1995)
  5. ^ As Augustus Arnold
personal data
SURNAME Finn, Julio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Augustus (maiden name); Arnold, Gus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago