"Hughes brought along a jazz quartet to accompany his _jazz poetics_ -- The Weary Blues. It aired on The 7 O'Clock Show on CBUT, Canada's flagship public television station based in Vancouver. The band leader was, Vancouver-born pianist, arranger and conductor Doug Parker who began his career in Los Angeles playing with the big bands of Russ Morgan, Ray Anthony and Harry James. All of Vancouver's famous jazz artists from the 50's, 60's and 70's played with Parker."
"Jamaican artist Joe White leads the band on his melodica with Earl Smith and Albert Chin, guitars; George Fulwood, bass; A. Cooper, drums; Leslie Butler, keyboards; Glan DaCosta, sax' David Madden, trumpet"
This album was considered ground-breaking at the time…. the first of several albums recorded by Blakey in the 1950s and 1960s that explored percussion-oriented jazz. It was followed by Orgy in Rhythm, Holiday for Skins, and The African Beat.- wiki Blakey was from Pittsburgh, converted to Islam for a time in the 40's and took the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.
"Knight first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of eight in 1952. That same year, Gladys, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda, and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest began performing together during Bubba's tenth birthday party after a record player malfunctioned.. After recording the tune, the group headed from Los Angeles back to Detroit. While in their car, Bubba Knight -- Gladys' older brother and one of the Pips -- recounted that they continued singing the song and decided to to return to the studio to add more to the background, and Gladys redid her lead vocal. Knight has a life of perserverence. She's been married four times and has three children. At 16, she became pregnant and married Atlanta musician and classmate James _Jimmy_ Newman in 1960.She had a miscarriage; the couple went on to have two children. Newman became a drug addict and abandoned the family when Knight was 20. She later suffered through a gambling addiction....in the late 1980s, after losing $60,000 in one night at the baccarat table, she joined Gamblers Anonymous, which helped her quit the habit. Knight married William McDowell in 2001. They have seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren between them. They reside in Asheville, North Carolina. She's 77 years old. - wiki"
"Oni Buchanan is a poet, pianist, and the founder and director of the Ariel Artists. She also writes on the poetry typewriter assembly line of First Impression with four other award-winning Boston poets, creating impromptu custom-made poems for passersby. "
"Lemmer was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in New York City.[3][4] He is a fifth-generation American, from a Hasidic family of the Belz movement.[5] Belz is a town in Galicia, in eastern Europe, where the Belz dynasty originated.[5][6] Lemmer is the youngest of eight children He began performing at small family events when he was 10 years old and later encourage by his sister Tzippy to perform on stage at a brother's wedding. The Lemmers are second cousins once removed of Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz. "
"A Tribe Called Quest formed in Queens, New York, in 1985. After establishing a friendship with hip-hop act Jungle Brothers, both groups formed a collective dubbed Native Tongues, which also included De La Soul. Initially, record labels would not sign A Tribe Called Quest due to their unconventional image and sound, but took interest after the success of 3 Feet High and Rising, which featured appearances from Q-Tip - wiki"
Ken Nordine (April 13, 1920 – February 16, 2019) was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of word jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice. - wiki
"The song was introduced 1936 film Rose of the Rancho and covered by dozens of artists over subsequent decades. Chris Connor was born Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri, to Clyde Loutsenhizer and Mabel Shirley. She became proficient on the clarinet, having studied for eight years during middle school and high school. She sang with the college band at the University of Missouri,before stepping into vocalizing, first with Claude THorhill's band. She went on to release nearly 3 dozen discs before passing away in Toms River, NJ where she'd lived with her manager and partner of 47 years, Lori Muscarelle. Her obituary was, reportedly the first public acknowledgement of her lesbianism. "
Billy Ray arranged this tune. Glenn Gray Knoblauch (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963),known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. He retired to Plymouth MA in 1950. The Symphony in D minor is the best-known orchestral work and the only mature symphony written by the 19th-century composer César Franck. The work is unusual in being in three, rather than the traditional four, movements. Its unclear how Gray settled on performing this arrangement.
Albert released "Feelings" in 1974 as a single and later included it as the title track of his 1975 debut album. In 1986, French songwriter Louis Gasté successfully sued Albert for plagiarism on the grounds that the tune was taken from Gasté's 1957 song "Pour Toi"; Gasté is now credited as the song's co-author.
"NY based Wolff Parkinson White programs hard-to listen-to electronic music since 2007, often described as _this confuses me_. The moniker refers to the innate heart disease he had the pleasure to live with, The quarter-tone- scale makes a few appearances - bandcamp notes. Baisinger is a Berklee grad who now runs a music school in Park Slope Brooklyn and still writing & performing. "
"Celtic Mouth Music (puirt-a-beul) a.k.a. diddling, lilting, jigging, chin music, cheek music, etc. Titles translate to: (I Would Go Quickly / Enjoy Your Shoes / Ducks' Nest In The Rushes) "
"Morrison died last month, age 72. She was an active sidewoman for many of the most prolific mainline jazzers and R&B artists of her time -- Diane Reeves, Mel Torme, Jimmy Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, Nancy Wilson, Steve Wonder, etc. " On this date we hear with Barbara & Houston, Stuart Elster, piano; Bass, Richard Simon; Lee Spath, drums;
Ken Nordine (April 13, 1920 – February 16, 2019) was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of word jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice. -- wiki
