The song was first recorded by JOhnnyLee HOoker in 1948.Pitchford was from Lexington, MS, ne of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations. Pitchford died in 1998 at his home in Lexington, from AIDS. A diddley bow is featured on his headstone which was paid for by John Fogerty and Rooster Blues Records through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. His grave is located near the grave of Elmore James Rock (an elder/influencer)... guitarists Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jeremy Spencer, and Frank Zappa have acknowledged Rock's influence. In the Beatles' song _For You Blue_, John Lennon plays a slide solo on a Höfner lap steel guitar while George Harrison encourages him with _Go, Johnny, go ... Elmore James' got nothin' on this, baby_ --wiki
Recorded in Ngozi, Bujumbura, Bukirasazi & Kayanza (Burundi). In this song, the unidentified singer accompanies himself on the inanga, which is (according to the liner notes) a trough-zither… musicians say this type of singing allows a good balance between the voice and the instument. It is a type of music played strickly for pleasure, alone,or sometimes before an audience. In this instance, we hear a son in praise of a benefactor.
Champeta is the riotous Afro-Colombian street sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast - a powder-keg of rhythms from local slave descendents brewed together with Congolese soukous, Ghanaian highlife, and Nigerian Afro-beat. Three years in the making Voodoo Love Inna Champeta Land, this collaborative sound project finds Colombian Champeta stars Viviano Torres, Luis Towers and Justo Valdez jamming with African legends Dally Kimoko, Diblo Dibala, Sékou Diabaté, Nyboma and Rigo Star -- liner notes
A Chicago born and bred arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Stepney is known for his work with Earth, Wind & Fire, Deniece Williams, and Ramsey Lewis, and as a staff producer for Chess Records in the 1960s, Step on Step features 23 tracks, most of which are original compositions by Stepney that were never again recorded by him or any other artist. It also features prototypical, seedling-style demos of Stepney compositions for Earth, Wind & Fire...All of the otherwise unrecorded, previously unnamed original compositions contained on Step on Step were given their titles by Stepney’s daughters Eibur, Charlene, and Chanté Stepney. - bandcamp
"Joined by the Dave Barbour Trio, Southern was born Genevieve Lillian Hering in Royal, Nebraska, United States,[1] Southern was the granddaughter of a German pig farmer who came to the United States in 1879. He built a flour mill in Royal, Nebraska. Her father ran the mill but lost it after the stock market crash of 1929. He then began operating an elevator of the Royal Farmers Union. She started playing music at age 3. Her only child, Kathryn King, said Southern stopped performing because of its negative psychological effect. In a 2010 newspaper article, King talked about Southern's shyness, saying she had _a paralyzing case of performance anxiety. Just contemplating performing made her enormously anxious and depressed._ - wiki"
"Over the course of many years, Chopin wrote 59 Mazurkas for piano, based on the traditional Polish folk dance in 3/4 meter. This, however, more closely aligns with another traditional 3/4 dance of Poland -- The Kujawiak -- which is typically characterized by a rubato tempo, calm & lyrical. "
"Morgan's (1933-2007) father Stanley was a guitarist with Harlan Leonard and the Rockets and The Ink Spots, and his mother, Geraldine, was a 14-year-old student when she gave birth to him. Morgan took up his father's instrument at an early age, but lost interest the moment he saw Charlie Parker take his first solo with the Jay McShann band at the Paradise Theater in Detroit, Michigan. Stanley introduced them backstage, where Parker offered Morgan advice about starting out on the alto sax, and they met at a music store the following day. Morgan, seven years old at the time, assumed they'd be picking out a saxophone, but Parker suggested he start on the clarinet to develop his embouchure. Morgan practiced on the clarinet for about two years before acquiring a soprano sax, and finally, an alto. With the release of his first solo release in 1956, the album copy hailed Morgan as the new Charlie Parker, who had died the same year. In his own words, Morgan was _scared to death_ by this and _self-destructed_. He later came back strong. -- wiki On this date with him, "
The band is composed of three veterans of adventurous music in NYC: Robbie Lee on woodwinds and electronics, John Thayer on percussion and synthesizers, and Ezra Feinberg on acoustic and electric guitars. The name Earth Room comes from “The New York Earth Room,” the famous 1977 experiment by the NYC artist Walter De Maria, in which soil was laid down in a loft gallery at 141 Wooster St in Soho. It has been maintained there ever since. The three musicians got together throughout 2019 and pre-pandemic 2020, recording during off hours at Thump Studios where John is the in-house engineer. After the pandemic hit they got to work combing through these sessions, finding the juicy bits, seeing what worked, cutting the fat, peeling the onion, and tying the room together until there were no more overdubs or edits needed. - label website
"He began playing in Baltimore in 2004, and this release represent a start to his solo recording career. Longtime collaborator Whitney McCraw is singing w/him. She also married him along the way. "
"She's based in Hong Kong and best known for her successful acting career, with dozens of roles in films dating from 1960 to 2014. This was a cut from one of her many albums recorded as a teenager. "
Time:
4:47
Artist:
Jimmy Lunceford ["Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish, Will Hudson"]
Champeta is the riotous Afro-Colombian street sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast - a powder-keg of rhythms from local slave descendents brewed together with Congolese soukous, Ghanaian highlife, and Nigerian Afro-beat. Three years in the making Voodoo Love Inna Champeta Land, this collaborative sound project finds Colombian Champeta stars Viviano Torres, Luis Towers and Justo Valdez jamming with African legends Dally Kimoko, Diblo Dibala, Sékou Diabaté, Nyboma and Rigo Star -- liner notes
Hamster Theatre straddle the edges of folk music, avant-garde, world music, early 20th century French composers, such as Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel, contemporary composition and many other musical forms, bringing together elements of all these styles while never sounding 'just like' any one of them. Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Greg LaLiberte, Drums [Drum Set] – Dave Willey, Trombone, Piano – Jon Stubbs
"Eric Jackson, the _dean of jazz,_ passed away last Sat morning. Tommy Flanagan's instrumental version of this song opened each of his shows, and this version with vocals is a tribute to Eric and all he brought over many years. The lyrics suit him and his journay homeward. _When you find a piece of mind / Leave you worries behind /Don't say that it can't be done / With a new point of view/ Life's true meaning comes to you / And the freedom you seek is one / Peace is for everyone_ Click the link to Al Davis introducing the show the evening of Eric's passing. Deeply personal, moving introduction.
"Medford born musician, DJ, mixologist Robert Toomey who passed away unexpectedly this week managed Esquivel for a time. His moniker _Brother Cleve_ originated here at WMBR in 1979 when he hosted a character on _Sports Palace,_ a weekend call-in show. He was keyboardist for the Suade Cowboys in the early '80s and played in many other bands, and produced some of Sun Ra's albums. "
The band is composed of three veterans of adventurous music in NYC: Robbie Lee on woodwinds and electronics, John Thayer on percussion and synthesizers, and Ezra Feinberg on acoustic and electric guitars. The name Earth Room comes from “The New York Earth Room,” the famous 1977 experiment by the NYC artist Walter De Maria, in which soil was laid down in a loft gallery at 141 Wooster St in Soho. It has been maintained there ever since. The three musicians got together throughout 2019 and pre-pandemic 2020, recording during off hours at Thump Studios where John is the in-house engineer. After the pandemic hit they got to work combing through these sessions, finding the juicy bits, seeing what worked, cutting the fat, peeling the onion, and tying the room together until there were no more overdubs or edits needed. - label website
"This is the third studio album from Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu performed in a mixture of his native aboriginal Yolngu & English. The album is a dedication to Gurrumul's mother and aunts, who brought him up with songs and lullabies from the church at Elcho Island."
