"lead singer, Chuck Girard. This sunshine pop band was started by Gary Usher, a busy LA based producer, musician & songwriter. He worked with numerous California acts in the 1960s, including the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and Dick Dale. Usher also produced fictitious surf groups or hot rod groups, mixing studio session musicians with his own troops (Chuck Girard, Dick Burns and others). These bands included the Super-Stocks, with the hot-rod song ""Midnight Run"", and the Kickstands. - wiki"
"Noel Akchote, French, free jazz improvisationalist is on Electric Guitar. In addition to a rich recording/performing career, he is also a filmmaker. Joachim Badenhorst is on Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone. He is from Antwerp. In additional to playing clarinet, he says he likes to listen to music, go on hikes & drink water. "
"Fifth Studio album for Franklin release shortly after Washington's death. Said Franklin _I first heard Dinah when I was just a kid,"" said Franklin, ""back around the time she made 'Fat Daddy.' I never got to know her personally in those days, though she and my father were good friends. The idea of recording a tribute to her grew out of the way I've always felt about her. I didn't try to do the songs the same way she did them, necessarily - just the way they felt best, whether they happened to be similar or different._ Washington died at age 39, after 7 marriages...found unresponsive in bed after a lethal combination of secobarbital and amobarbital, prescriptions for her insomnia and diet."
Miriam Burton Holman, an African American soprano, recording artist and actress who appeared on Broadway and in opera. Miss Burton, born in New York City, studied voice at the Henry Street Settlement. In 1954 she received the Marian Anderson Award, and a year later won an Opportunity Fellowship from the John Hay Whitney Foundation to study in Europe. Her New York debut was at Town Hall in 1958. She was a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the Symphony of the Air and the Dessoff Choirs, and appeared in several operas, including Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and the premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s “Passion of Jonathan Wade” with the New York City Opera in 1962. - from her Obit from the New Federalist Theater.
The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740.[1][2] The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately 1.5 feet (46 cm) by 1 foot (30 cm) in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed. - wiki
This comes from Krall's 10th studio album. Krall was born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the daughter of Adella A. (née Wende), an elementary school teacher, and Stephen James "Jim" Krall, an accountant. Krall's only sibling, Michelle, is a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Krall's father played piano at home, and her mother sang in a community choir. Krall began studying piano herself at the age of four and took exams through The Royal Conservatory of Music. In high school, she was a member of a student jazz group; at 15, she began playing professionally in local restaurants. Krall won a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied from 1981 to 1983, before spending time in Los Angeles to play jazz. - Wiki
"They _push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments._ Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengard Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa."
Recorded by V. P. & R. G. Wasson in Huautla de Jiménez, in the Mazatec Mountains in the northern corner of the State of Oaxaca on the night of July 21/22, 1956. These rough and ready field recordings featuring the voice of Maria Sabina (1894-1985) a Mexican curandera who would perform healing vigils known as veladas in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca where all participants would ingest psilocybin mushrooms (Maria's holy children), as a sacrament to open the gates of the mind and communicate with the sacred. María Sabina (July 22, 1894, Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, Mexico - November 23, 1985) was a Mexican-Mazatec shaman and curandera (healer) who lived her entire life in a modest dwelling in the Sierra Mazateca of Southern Mexico. Her practice was based on the use of the various species of native psilocybe mushrooms and she performed long, trance-induced incantations.-Liner notes. Click link to page where you can download all the liner note (column on the right).
Windham Hill started a successful venture pairing popular singers w/celebrity narrators & called it _Rabbit Ears Radio_. Just a year removed from his world-charting hit, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, Bobby filled studio time for this project exploring areas he felt he had laid to the side as a jazz musician. Taking cues from repetitive, hypnotic music, Bobby simplified his newfound technique making tracks that were immediate and quite intimate, recalling the mysterious chant music of the African continent. Wherever vocals didn’t suffice, percussive or melodic instruments were conjured and multi-tracked into creation, using that great gift of his, his voice - wiki
"Gogi was of Russian/Jewish heritage, born in Philly...a pop singer who hit her stride in the 1956 with the tune _Wayward Wind_. She moved to LA when she was 12. Married & had 2 kids. She worked as a car saleswoman in the early 1950s. In 1952 she began to record, using first the name ""Audrey Brown"" and later ""Audrey Grant"". She was given the name ""Gogi"" by Dave Kapp, the head of Artists and Repertory at RCA Victor, who liked to patronize a restaurant called Gogi's LaRue. (Another source says that Grant asked Kapp, ""What is a Gogi?"" She continued, ""His answer was, 'Darned if I know, I dreamed it last night.'"
"Parker was born in 1943 in Kingston, NC. He began a solo career in 1990 after playing w/James Brown but left the band in the early '70s after reportedly being fed up w/Brown's treatment of him. He came back the group for a stretch in 1984. On this date, we hear Maceo Parker Alto Sax), Pee Wee Ellis(Tenor Sax), Steve Williamson(Alto Sax), Fred Wesley(Trombone), Larry Goldings(Keyboards), Rodney Jones(Guitar), James Madison, Bill Stewart(Drums)"
Nick Brooke is an American composer, musician, arranger, thereminist, instrument builder, and researcher of early musical automata who mixes musical sampling, lip-synching, and theater into an idiosyncratic genre. I recently attended a live performance of his work in Red Hook Brooklyn -- seven vocalists training themselves to meld their voices with sampled collage of sound effects, songs, ephemera…blurring the lines between live performance and recording. -- WIKI & CD jacket info
Buffalo NY native, nominated twice for the Pulitzer prize in literature. Lucille Sayles was married to sculptor Fred James Clifton who was a professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo. They had 6 children. In 2007, she became the first African-American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. This poem was published in 1996, as part of The Book of Light. This was taped at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.
Louisville, KY born Jones (1909-2000) is on trumpet & vocals. Bass – John Browne Drums – Harold Austin Piano – George Rhodes. _St. James Infirmary Blues_ is an American blues song and jazz standard of uncertain origin. Louis Armstrong made the song famous in his 1928 recording on which Don Redman was credited as composer; later releases gave the name Joe Primrose, a pseudonym of Irving Mills. There is tremendous and fascinating speculation about the song's origins (see link).
"Humphrey was the first woman signed by Blue Note in 1971. She was raised in Dallas. Dizzy Gillespie saw her play at a talent contest at Southern Methodist University when she was enrolled as a student there and he inspired her to pursue a music career in New York City. She followed his advice, moving to New York in June 1971 and getting her first break performing at the Apollo Theater on Amateur Night...for this date, she sought out the Mizell Brothers after their work on Donald Byrd's Black Byrd, which combined funk with jazz. Blacks and Blues was recorded in three days at the Sound Factory. In ""Harlem River Drive"" and other tracks, Humphrey's playing was improvised. As Humphrey recalled in an interview in 2006, ""In other words, they would play the track in the background and just tell me to play to it. There was no written melody. Growing up, the music they listened to was doo-wop. And from that background, they intrinsically understood harmony. So they would already have the chord changes and background vocals laid out. I just played what I felt off the top of my head against that.""[1] Humphrey sings vocals on ""Just a Love Child"" and the album's last track, ""Baby's Gone""- wiki"
Miriam Burton Holman, an African American soprano, recording artist and actress who appeared on Broadway and in opera. Miss Burton, born in New York City, studied voice at the Henry Street Settlement. In 1954 she received the Marian Anderson Award, and a year later won an Opportunity Fellowship from the John Hay Whitney Foundation to study in Europe. Her New York debut was at Town Hall in 1958. She was a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the Symphony of the Air and the Dessoff Choirs, and appeared in several operas, including Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and the premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s “Passion of Jonathan Wade” with the New York City Opera in 1962. - from her Obit from the New Federalist Theater.
Maki (b 1951) is a Japanese-American rock musician aka Maki Annette Lovelace. She was a member of the group Blues Creation formed in Tokyo in 1969…returning after a hiatus in 1972 simply as Creation.
"Originally released in 1986 on his album Keyboard Fantasies, this more recent version has gained traction via YouTube. He self-released the album via Atlast Records and as a cassette at a time when Glenn-Copeland was best known for his children's television music. The album was inspired by the nature and environment of his home in Huntsville, Ontario, including the surrounding lakes and woods. Copeland is originally from Philadelphia. "
"(YOU-nah) Carlisle was born in Ohio of Native American and African American descent. She started performing in public at age 3, and was a feature in Harlem, where she lived in the Hotel Theresa. She was a regular at the club she owned with her husband Johnny Bradfords's Gee-Haw Stables (aka Mercedes' Gee-Haw Riding Academy) at 160 West 132nd Street. Langston Hughes mentioning hearing her sing in Paris at the Montmarte jazz clubs in the '30's and '40's. She died at 40 of pneumonia, likely brought on by chronic ear infection that forced her into retirement 4 years earlier. "
"Shinichiro Ikebe (b 1943) in Mito, Ibaraki (Japan) is a leading Japanese contemporary composer of classical music, with an extensive body of work scoring for film and television. "
