Jamming with Edward!
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{{Infobox album
| name = Jamming with Edward!
| type = studio
| artist = Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
| cover = JammingWithEdward.jpg
| alt =
| released = 7 January 1972
| recorded = 23 April 1969, Olympic Studio, London, United Kingdom
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock
| length = 36:05
| language = English
| label = Rolling Stones
| producer = Glyn Johns
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Ry Cooder
| type = studio
| prev_title = Boomer's Story
| prev_year = 1972
| title = Jamming with Edward!
| year = 1972
| next_title = Paradise and Lunch
| next_year = 1974
}}
{{Extra chronology
| artist = Nicky Hopkins
| type = studio
| prev_title = Sweet Thursday
| prev_year =
| title = Jamming With Edward!
| year = 1972
| next_title = The Tin Man Was a Dreamer
| next_year = 1973
}}
{{Extra chronology
| artist = The Rolling Stones
| type = studio
| prev_title = Hot Rocks 1964-1971
| prev_year = 1971
| title = Jamming With Edward!
| year = 1972
| next_title = Milestones
| next_year = 1972
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r68935}}
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = C{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: J|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=J&bk=70|access-date=February 27, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
}}
Jamming with Edward! is a 1972 album by three Rolling Stones band members (Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman) accompanied by Nicky Hopkins and Ry Cooder.
Background
The album was recorded at London's Olympic Studio on April 23, 1969, during the Let It Bleed sessions, and released on Rolling Stones Records in 1972. It consists of a series of loose jams performed by band members while waiting for Keith Richards to return to the studio.{{cite book|last=Johns |first=Glyn |title=Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces... |publisher=Plume |location=New York City |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-751657-2 |page=26}} The reason for Richards' absence is uncertain; although it is commonly believed that he walked out over Cooder being brought in as a support guitarist, producer Glyn Johns has attributed his absence to a phone call from his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. Although Jamming with Edward! reached No. 33 on the US charts in February 1972 during an 11-week stay,{{cite web |title=Jamming with Edward! Charts and Awards |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/jamming-with-edward-r68935/charts-awards |publisher=Allmusic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713115623/http://www.allmusic.com/album/jamming-with-edward-r68935/charts-awards |archive-date=July 13, 2011}} it failed to make the UK listings.
"Edward" is a nickname for pianist Nicky Hopkins, originating from some earlier studio conversation between Hopkins and another Rolling Stone, Brian Jones. Hopkins also contributed the cover art. In the original liner notes, Mick Jagger describes the album as "a nice piece of bullshit... which we cut one night in London, England while waiting for our guitar player to get out of bed. It was promptly forgotten (which may have been for the better) ... I hope you spend longer listening to this record than we did recording it." On the CD version there are additional notes written by Mark Paytress adding more context and describing the result as a "curio to top all curios, perhaps".1995 CD sleeve notes
Johns said of the album: "[It] was just a joke really, just a laugh. I recorded it and they played it, and then, I don't know how long later, we dug the tapes out, I mixed it and they stuck it out on album. It didn't really warrant releasing really, but it was okay, a bit of fun, and there's some good playing on it."{{cite web |last=Giles |first=Jeff |title=When the Rolling Stones Hit the Top 40 without Keith Richards |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jamming-with-edward/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=6 January 2017 |access-date=11 August 2018}}
According to Rolling Stone, the release was delayed for several months due to the appearance of an expletive on the back cover art, which was partially covered with stars in the ultimate release.{{cite magazine |title=The Stones Set to Release Two LPs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-stones-set-to-release-two-lps-245067/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=6 January 1971 |access-date=11 August 2018}}
Remaster
Jamming with Edward! was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records in 1995.
Track listing
{{Tracklist|headline=Side one
|all_writing = Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins and Charlie Watts, except where noted
| title1 = The Boudoir Stomp
|length1 = 5:13
| title2 = It Hurts Me Too
| note2 = Elmore James/Mel London; original version: Tampa Red, 1941; includes a quotation from "Pledging My Time" (Bob Dylan)
|length2 = 5:12
| title3 = Edward's Thrump Up
|length3 = 8:11
}}
{{Tracklist|headline=Side two
| title4 = Blow with Ry
|length4 = 11:05
| title5 = Interlude a la El Hopo
| note5 = Includes a quotation from "The Loveliest Night of the Year" [Webster, Ross]
|length5 = 2:04
| title6 = Highland Fling
|length6 = 4:20
}}
Personnel
Chart performance
| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1972) !Peak |
| Dutch Albums Chart{{Cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mick+Jagger|title=Discografie Mick Jagger|website=Dutchcharts.nl|access-date=30 October 2023}}
|align="center"|7 |
| US Billboard Top LPs
|align="center"|33 |
References
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{{Bill Wyman}}
{{Ry Cooder}}
{{Mick Jagger}}
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