Keith Johnson

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Keith Johnson (* 1942) is a jazz , blues and rock musician who was best known as a trumpeter and later pianist for the Butterfield Blues Band .

Life

Johnson made a name for himself as a trumpeter in the jazz scene as early as the first half of the 1960s. In 1967 he became a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (BBB) ​​and performed with them at a pop festival in Monterey in June of that year . This style of music of the band differed from his previous recordings ( Chicago Blues and Raga Blues). Before 1969 he mainly played the trumpet, but after that he switched to piano and Steve Medaio took over most of the trumpet parts. With the BBB he recorded a total of three albums until he left the band in 1970. After that he was briefly a member of Elephant's Memory and worked as a studio musician, among others for Van Morrison , Etta James , Moogy Klingman and for his wife Martha Veléz . He and Martha Veléz have a son, Taj Jonsson.

Discography (selection)

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra)
  • 1967: The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (trumpet)
  • 1968: In My Own Dream
  • 1969: Keep On Moving
Elephant's Memory
  • 1969: Elephant's Memory (trumpet)
Van Morrison
  • 1970: His Band and the Street Choir (trumpet, keyboard, organ)
Mark “Moogy” Klingman

1972: Moogy (horn)

Martha Veléz
  • 1972: Hypnotized (Horn)
Etta James
  • 1978: Deep in the Night (horn, piano)
  • 1994: Live from San Francisco (trumpet, keyboard)
  • 2007: gold
  • 2011: The Dreamer and Heart & Soul: A Retrospective
  • 2012: The Complete Private Music Blues, Rock 'n' Soul Albums Collection

He can also be heard as a trumpeter on the albums Strawberry Jam (1996) and An Anthology: The Elektra Years (1997) and a recording of the Monterey International Pop Festival from June 16 to 18, 1967 by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the entry in the German National Library
  2. ↑ Bruce Eder: Artist Biography Keith Johnson on allmusic.com, accessed September 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ Keith Johnson on allmusic.com, accessed September 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Keith Johnson on discogs.com, accessed September 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz / blues / rock trumpeter and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942