"Prechtel was raised on a Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and of First Nations and Swiss ancestry. In 1970 his mother died and Prechtel ended his first marriage. He then started traveling, going south through Mexico and entering Guatemala. After a year of traveling through the country, he settled in a small village near Lake Atitlan, which was inhabited by the Tz'utujil (one of the numerous ethnic Maya peoples). There he met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, a respected shaman of the village, who told him that Prechtel was the student he had prayed for. The American began studying with the Mayan shaman. He has since become active with poet Robert Bly's "expressive men's movement." - wiki

"Mojave 3 were a British rock supergroup consisting of Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Rowe, Alan Forrester, and Ian McCutcheon"

"Boston based clarinetist, member of NatuleDrawing on the work of guitarist Robert Fripp and flutist Paul Horn which he enjoyed as a teenager, as well as the improvisations of Greek and klezmer clarinetists, Dickson intertwines gentle whispers into orchestral layers of clarinet with long streams of melody, poignant monologues, and elegant counterpoints. "

Italian singer/songwriter. In 1985 he became a Zen monk, and therefore added the name Koryu to his name and surname. He is a passionate Beatles fan and recorded an Italian version of the entire White Album in 2000 (Albume Bianco) which received many positive review. In 2007, he repeated the operation with Sergio Pepe and the orchestra Lonely Hearts, ie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. -wiki

34-song SUPERSTORE is the Sam Gendel all genre follow-up album to 2021's 52-song Fresh Bread. SUPERSTORE is more unreleased music from the enigmatic producer/saxophonist collected from personal archives of solo recordings and collaborations in various venues. - bandcamp

"Avalon looked to expand his fan base with more adult recordings as well as venturing into films. Taking his Philadephia bred, Italian ancestry as his inspiration, Frankie had long wanted to record an album of Italian songs, a dream that was finally realized in 1962 with the release of this album. - wiki Grace Jones also covered this song (note: Jones' Jamaican parents lived in a ranch house on the very end of a dead end street in Syracuse NY's Lyncourt neighborhood surrounded by mostly 2nd generation Italians. You could just about see my 8th grade English teacher, Jeanette Pietrantoni's house from their front yard, looking across the Lycourt Jr. HS football field). Perhaps Grace will be invited into the Margin before too long. For now, click link attached to this entry. "

Dawid devotes this album to Saint Escrava Anastacia, a popular folk saint venerated in Brazil. An enslaved woman of African descent, Anastácia is depicted as possessing incredible beauty, having piercing blue eyes and wearing a punitive iron facemask. Without an official history, stories of Anastacia's life vary. Some place her birth in Africa, where it is stipulated that Anastacia was the child of a black, female slave from the west coast of Africa. Her mother was raped by her owner- and Anastacia was the result -the first black child to be born with blue eyes. The plantation owner had the baby sent away, to hide the evidence of his ‘infidelity’ from his wife. -wiki

"This is from the scene with a python. In the song, Kaa quickly hypnotizes Mowgli into a calm, soothing, relaxing trance, sending Mowgli walking along his body until he finally coils himself around Mowgli just like he did before. As the song concludes, Kaa readies himself to devour the boy, only to be stopped by Shere Khan the tiger in his search for Mowgli. Sterling Price Holloway Jr. (January 4, 1905

"Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster (w/Richard Allen) at Angola State Penitentiary, Angola LA between 1952 & 1959. Williams was born in Zachary, Louisiana, to a family of sharecroppers. He had no formal schooling, and spent his childhood picking cotton and cutting sugar cane. In 1928, he moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and worked in a lumberyard. At the age of 20, Williams fashioned a crude guitar by attaching five copper strings to a cigar box, and soon after bought a cheap, mass-produced one. He began to play for small events such as Church gatherings, fish fries, suppers, and dances. When this was recorded, he was serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a man in a nightclub in 1956, an act which he claimed was in self-defense. Oster and Allen recorded Williams performing several of his songs about prison life, and pleaded for him to be pardoned. Under pressure from Oster, the parole board issued a pardon, and commuted his sentence to 12 years. In December 1958, he was released into 'servitude parole', which required 80 hours of labor per week on a Denham Springs farm without due compensation, and only room and board provided. This parole prevented him from working in music, though he was able to occasionally play with Butch Cage and Willie B. Thomas at Thomas's home in Zachary. By this time, Williams' music was becoming popular, and he played at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. - wiki"

"Songhoy Blues are a young and exuberant Malian band who already have a remarkable history behind them. They fled from their homes in the north when radical Islamists overran the region, and on reaching the safety of Bamako, decided to form a band - the guardian"

34-song SUPERSTORE is the Sam Gendel all genre follow-up album to 2021's 52-song Fresh Bread. SUPERSTORE is more unreleased music from the enigmatic producer/saxophonist collected from personal archives of solo recordings and collaborations in various venues. - bandcamp

"Singer/multi-instrumentalist Arthur Lee, who was originally from Memphis, Tennessee but had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands the LAG's and Lee's American Four. He wrote and produced the single _My Diary_ for Rosa Lee Brooks in 1964, which featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar.The Sons Of Adam, which included future Love drummer Michael Stuart, recorded the Lee composition _Feathered Fish_. After attending a performance by the Byrds, Lee decided to form a band that joined the newly minted folk-rock sound of the Byrds to his primarily rhythm and blues style. Love's recording of this tune wasn't the first, but it did usher it into rock standardom.-- wiki"

See notes above on his band Love.

Starred Julie Andrews.

"Evis recorded this in 1960. It was one of his most popular, best-selling singles of all time. Corpus Christi (aka Andreas Ross) is a prolific recording artist, accordianist, and singer. She's based in San Francisco-based singer, and records and performs with her husband, guitarist Rich Stim"

"SYLVIA MARLOWE (1909-1981), in the course of a long and distinguished career, appeared throughout America, Europe and the Far East in solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and as soloist with major symphony orchestras. Performer, scholar, teacher, Miss Marlowe commissioned over thirty works for the harpsichord, edited and annotated selected keyboard works of Franc;ois Couperin, and recorded major harpsichord works both old and new. Her performances have been hailed as _Authoritative, masterful, deeply poetic._ Miss Marlowe was the founder of the Harpsichord Music Society, Inc. and has been named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. A native of New York City, she lived there and in Connecticut for many years with her husband, the late painter Leonid Berman. In the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the lady who loved society, spoke French and was the _sparkling center of her salon on East 60th Street_ blended _twentieth century urgency with eighteenth-century elegance._"

Croubalain performs solo and also fronts/was mastermind behind The Dead Brothers, a self-described Death Blues Funeral Trash Orchestra, founded in Geneva Switzerland. They release 8 albums over 10 year period starting in 2008. Croubalian passed away on 03. Sept. 2021. This song is from a film (Armenia) by M.A. Littler in which Croubalian slips into the role of the main character, Haig Boghos, merging autobiographical and historical facts with poetic fiction."

"Poet Nathaniel Mackey refers to Spearman in a recent review of his latest collection, named, aptly _Double Trio_. The review combines Mackey with new work from poet Fanny Howe under the umbrella of gnosticism. Check link. Spearman was a free jazzer, played tenor and was active in Oakland during the '60s until he moved to Paris. He died too young of cancer. "

"Prechtel wasr raised on a Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and of First Nations and Swiss ancestry. In 1970 his mother died and Prechtel ended his first marriage.[2] He started traveling, going south through Mexico and entering Guatemala. After a year of traveling through the country, he settled in a small village near Lake Atitlan, which was inhabited by the Tz'utujil (one of the numerous ethnic Maya peoples).[2] There he met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, a respected shaman of the village, who told him that Prechtel was the student he had prayed for. The American began studying with the Mayan shaman - wiki"

Zukerman was born in Cambridge, MA and, in 1968, married Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor. Pincas Zukerman. They had two children and divorced after 17 years together. She worked for many years as CBS Sunday Morning's classical music correspondent.

"Victory at Sea was an America indie rock band formed in 1996, from members of bands the Swirlies and Spore, in the Boston, Massachusetts region. It consisted of vocalist/guitarist Mona Elliott, bassist Mel Lederman and drummer Christina Files. Between 1998 & 2006, they released 7 albums. This one, via Kimchee, a label created by two WMBR DJs, Bob Dubrow and Andy Hong. "

Danish group.

"Andrea Ross, better known as Angel Corpus Christi, is a prolific recording artist, accordianist, and singer. She's based in San Francisco-based singer, and records and performs with her husband, guitarist Rich Stim"

34-song SUPERSTORE is the Sam Gendel all genre follow-up album to 2021's 52-song Fresh Bread. SUPERSTORE is more unreleased music from the enigmatic producer/saxophonist collected from personal archives of solo recordings and collaborations in various venues. - bandcamp

"Alan Pasqua, piano and Dark Oles on bass, with Erskine on drum kit. Dizzy Gillespie's tune has been covered by many musicians (including Chaka Khan). The first recording was by Dizzy himself in 1954 on his album Afro. "

"Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. The song he's covering here is often mistaken as a protest against the Vietnam War. It was 1967 when it first blasted over the airwaves in Los Angeles, Buffalo Springfield's protest was actually aimed at the curfew imposed by LAPD to try to shut down hordes of young people out on Sunset Strip. It was a vibrant scene, full of teenagers and the musicians coming down from Laurel Canyon to hang out & listen to the new sounds coming from the night clubs that lined the boulevard. The people's reaction to police abuse and action is refered to as the Sunset Strip Curfew Riots. "