Genre: Jazz, NZ music
Places I remember: Shona Walding's collection
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Food of Love
Gear costume: The Sheik of Araby
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Food of Love
Gear costume: The Sheik of Araby
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8
Active compensatory factors: This was the third album (of six) from this NZ band, recorded live at Bar Bodega in 2005.
Active compensatory factors: This was the third album (of six) from this NZ band, recorded live at Bar Bodega in 2005.
According to the band's website - Wellington Heads have evolved their own sound through the influences of Kansas style blue jazz, the swinging rhythm n blues of Louis Jordan and Ray Charles, Chicago blues and infused with Pacific/Hawaiian rhythms, New Orleans grooves and Latino feels.
One of my recent posts centred on Nick Waterhouse; Wellington Heads and Nick are very similar in feel and approach, with Neil Worboys sounding very similar to Nick. The line up on this album is: Neil Worboys – vocals, guitar, harmonica; Bill Wood – guitars; Geoff Keith – bass; Justin Hooper – drums. Sax, trombone and trumpet flesh out the sound. Worboys, Wood and Keith write all of the material aside from a deft cover of The Sheil of Araby.
Where do they all belong? The band are growing on me!
