Merl Saunders, Buddy Miles,Oteil Bambridge, Odetta, Kenn Moutenot @t Manny's Carwash, N.Y.Part 7 1996 (After Phish MSG Concert) Video by Larry Blumenstein Video Productions. Contact: larryblumenstein@aol.com, 917-817-2112. (Copyright 1996) (c)
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Manny's is a great blues and jazz venue that can be found in the generally mojo-less Upper East Side. There's live music every night including New Orleans blues and Jazz, zydeco and the ever-popular jam sessions that take place on Sunday.
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Oteil Burbridge is a "musician's musician," a bass guitar idol, and a master of jam band-style funk, rock, blues, jazz, and everything in between. Burbridge first emerged as a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit, a group that recorded their first album in the early '90s and hit the road on the H.O.R.D.E. tour with other like-minded bands. In 1997, he replaced bassist Allen Woody in the Allman Brothers Band. Burbridge has also contributed to recordings by Gregg Allman, Victor Wooten, Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman of Phish, and T. Lavitz of the Dixie Dregs. He toured with his own band, Oteil & the Peacemakers, in the fall of 2000. He was featured in Bass Player magazine in August 1993 and again as the cover story in August 1997. Burbridge played on the 1999 Stranger's Hand album with Howard Levy, Jerry Goodman, and Steve Smith, and in 2000 he released his first solo CD, an instrumental effort entitled Love of a Lifetime.
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Hammond B-3 player Merl Saunders has recorded with numerous renowned artists since the early '70s and has led many of his own dates in a variety of genres from jazz to blues to new age to rock. Born on Valentine's Day, 1934 in San Mateo, CA, Saunders began learning to play the piano at the age of 10. He was a classmate and bandmate of Johnny Mathis through junior high school. Saunders decided on music as a profession after seeing how much fun was had by audience and performers alike at concerts by such musicians as Cab Calloway. He apprenticed early on with Jimmy Smith for a time, and attended various music schools. Starting in the 1960s, Saunders collaborated on and off with Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. He also began working as a jazz keyboardist in the early '70s, and since has performed and recorded with Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt and Paul Butterfield. One of his several albums with Jerry Garcia, Blues From the Rainforest, hit the Top 5 of the U.S. Billboard New Age charts in the early '90s. Saunders runs his own label, Sumertone, which includes much of his catalogue, as does the Fantasy label. In 1998, Saunders released his 20th album as a leader, Merl Saunders With His Funky Friends: Live! (Sumertone), which includes guests Garcia, John Popper (of Blues Travelers) and Trey Anastasio (of Phish). In addition to his active touring schedule, the San Franciscan has also written scores for TV and movies, including Tales From The Crypt, Twilight Zone, Heavy Traffic and Fritz The Cat. In early 2000, Merl Saunders became the first recipient of the lifetime activist award from a Florida environmentalist group for his environmental activism that goes beyond just the titles of albums like Save the Planet So We'll Have Someplace to Boogie and Blues from the Rainforest. Later that fall, Saunders released Struggling Man in November
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