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Jimmy Page: Session Man is a two-volume compilation album featuring tracks by various artists on which Jimmy Page performed as a session musician, recorded between 1963 and 1968. The album was released by AIP Records (a subsidiary of Bomp!
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Jan 9, 2024 · Before he was a rock god, Jimmy Page, born in Middlesex on January 9, 1944, was a teenage prodigy with a fearsome sessionography.
- Jet Harris, “Diamonds” (1963) The very first recording session that Jimmy Page was ever enlisted to perform on was for this instrumental song by former Shadows bassist Jet Harris.
- Shirley Bassey, “Goldfinger” (1964) Written in 1964, this title track to the third entry in the James Bond series was based on the song "Moon River," itself the theme to Breakfast at Tiffany's.
- Nashville Teens, “Tobacco Road” (1964) Despite what their name might suggest, the Nashville Teens actually sprung out of Page's own hometown of Surrey, England, in 1962.
- Otis Spann, “Stirs Me Up” (1964) Otis Spann was one of the greatest blues piano players to ever come out of postwar Chicago. But like many of his contemporaries such as Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin’ Wolf, when the enthusiasm for the blues dried up in America in the early 1960s, he was all but forced to migrate over to Europe, where a fresh, young audience was ready to receive him with open arms.
Several early tracks were compiled on the twin album release, Jimmy Page: Session Man. He also recorded with Keith Richards on guitar and vocals in Olympic Sound Studios on 15 October 1974.
Apr 11, 2022 · For a unique insight into the Led Zep luminary’s pre-fame musical world, look no further than the two-volume compilation album series Jimmy Page: Session Man (AIP Records, a subsidiary of the Bomp! label; first volume released 1989 with its second in 1990).
Oct 12, 2021 · In addition to getting sick of having to feature on the music he hated, it was the rise of the soulful Stax Records sound, which brought in brass and orchestral arrangements at the expense of the guitar, that was the final nail in the coffin for Page’s pre-Zeppelin career as a session man.
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