Kofsky (1935–1997) was an American Marxist historian, author, and Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento, from 1969 until his death. This excerpt is taken from a longer conversation between the two men recorded in Nov 1966 and broadcast on Pacifica flagship station KPFA in Berkley, CA. Apparently, Kofsky turned on his tape recorder when he got into Coltrane’s car. The two men drove through town and made a few stops along the way. Coltrane had moved to Huntington, New York with his wife Alice and their children in 1964. They lived in a modest house on a quiet, tree-lined street. It was a home to raise a family. Coltrane had just turned 40. He would die from liver cancer less than a year later.
Movement from a symphony commissioned by A Far Cry in 2017. The music, blends Turkish, western classical, and jazz in celebration of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler. Sanlıkol was born in Turkey of Turkish-Cypriot parents and came to Boston on a Berklee College of Music scholarship to study jazz piano and composition in 1993. He now teaches at New England Conservatory where he is director of the Intercultural Institute.
"She grew up on the island of Majorca, and her family runs a cement factory, FCO Grimalt SAU. Apparently, Mallorca has quite a lot of the stuff, producing material used for tile, construction etc. She played in the gravel and sand mountains as a child but began to develop a more critical stance as she grew older. She says she is looking to honor the family's life's work, and to reconcile _the little doll that played in the mountains of gravel_ with her need to break free of its hard-shell confines.-rootsworld.com"
Rhiannon and Francesco have been a couple since 2019. Recent article (link) in Rolling Stone "Alice Gerrard, Reclusive Folk Hero, Emerges to Sing for Trans Rights and Gun Reform"
"Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden is the tenth solo studio album by American jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts (b; 1975, Chicago). The album was released on September 29, 2023, by Constellation Records, and is the fifth in Roberts' ongoing Coin Coin album series. The album's narrative centers an ancestor of Roberts who died from an illegal abortion. The narrative is more explicit than in past albums in the series, and is described as a character study. - wiki"
The members of the group -- Carl-Magnus Trygg, Alexander Fuchs, and Henrik Bay Hansen -- are all playing slide whistles. It's taken from a live performance at Kulturskolan Lund (Skåne) at KulturnattenI. I can find little information about this group -- it appears they may be Swedish.
"formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass) and Eddy Naegeli (guitar), later replaced by American Jim Kennedy. After Kennedy collapsed on stage due to a serious illness, Ax Genrich replaced him to complete the classic Guru Guru line up, in time for their debut album in 1970."
Tippets, voice & acoustic guitar; Mark Charig, cornet; Harry Miller, bass Julie Driscoll (b 1947) of Trinity fame got married and changed her name to Tippetts…continued to make recordings albeit in a more _experimental_ fashion ….from discogs: From the 1970s Tippetts moved away from the blues and rock style of her early work and began to favor wordless, free improvisation.
"Fish Food is the project of Joseph K. Sims from London, Ontario. This track was part of what appears to be a one-off project, recorded and released on cassette in 2016. Besides Sims, the other musician listed in credits is Evan Matthews. "
"Male Instrumenty is an artistic group concentrating on sound quest within the sphere of small-size professional instruments, sound toys, peculiar musical inventions and other small sound-making objects. The band was set up in 2006 by Polish musician Pawe_ Roma_czuk. "
Greco's (1927-2020) lineage hails in part from Greece. She did not receive love from her mother in her childhood and suffered from her harsh comments due to being an unwanted child, such as _You ain't my daughter. You're the child of rape_. She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Bordeaux with her older sister Charlotte. After the death of her grandparents, her mother took them to Paris. In 1938, she became a ballerina at the Opéra Garnier. Gréco became a devotee of the bohemian fashion of some intellectuals of post-war France. Her friend Jean-Paul Sartre installed her at the Hotel La Louisiane and commented that Greco had _millions of poems in her voice_. She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Albert Camus, Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, thus gaining the nickname la Muse de l'existentialisme. - wiki
Joyner was born in Omaha, NE in 1951 and was named after Paul Simon. He has influenced the music of Bright Eyes, Kevin Morby and Gillian Welch. In the early 1990s, Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also known for the so-called _Peel Incident,_ when British DJ John Peel played his album, The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, from beginning to end on air. - wiki
Waterson (1939-2022) was part of the legendary Waterson Family of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They first formed a band in 1960, recorded in 1965…disbanded in 1968. She married musician Martin Carthy and, according to wiki, Norma moved to the island of Monserrat and worked as a DJ at Radio Antilles.
"Nick Drake's poet/musician mother(1915-1993). Discogs:
""A 196 page book containing 79 poems written by Molly Drake from 1935 until her death in 1993. With 26 songs across two CDs performed by Molly Drake and recorded on vintage tape recorders in mono by her husband, Rodney Drake in the 1950s and 1960s. With supportive essays, lyrics and photos making this the complete Molly Drake collection"". Molly was probably an early influence on Nick, & his sister Gabrelle...she played the piano and wrote songs herself. She once composed a whole suite of children's songs for Nick and Gabrielle. As her son suffered through depression, her poetry would reflect the turmoil she knew her son was going through, and the inability to help improve his condition.[2] The toll of losing her son in 1974 took years to recover from, but through her family and composing, Drake was able to recover to live out the last part of her life. She's burried next to Nick and husband Rodney at the St Mary Magdalene churchyard in Tanworth-in-Arden where the family lived. -wiki"
"Fantastic new collection of field recordings fof Mack McCormick (1958-1971). This recorded on March 15, 1962 in tje 2 Alley Theatre in Houston. From the liner notes:. As Hopkins notes during the recording, his wife Nettie was sitting in the audience. However, it was not her first
time seeing her husband play the Alley Theatre. During Hopkins’s performance at the May 16, 1960, Hootenanny-in-the-Round, Nettie sat next to John T. Jones, described by McCormick as “the heir to the Jesse Jones Empire which includes half the business buildings in Houston and minor items [such] as The Houston Chronicle.” As for McComick, his concern was the region including Western Louisiana, East Texas, and sections of Oklahoma and Arkansas. McCormick referred to the individuals and communities where he conducted fieldwork as “tribal people” to distinguish them from the individuals and communities with middle-class aspirations in the region (Govenar 2019). McCormick distinguished between the popu- lations that retained cultural practices from the early 20th century and those that sought and attained more mainstream cultural values. - See link for more. Man at the Door is a reference to McCormick himself, who would walk up, knock on doors, and ask people to play for him. He was often a spectacle...white man at often impoverished black peoples' doors was not routine by any stretch. "
Taylor (b: 1946, NYC)…mainstay NY musician…trained at Julliard, Taylor was a trombonist in the American Symphony Orchestra in the late 1960s under the direction of Leopold Stokowski and began playing as a studio musician during this time. - wiki As a sideman, he's got an enormous roster...see link. He's playing bass trombone in this work in companionship with the Post-Classical Ensemble
Arslanian joins Sanders on the harmonium, ‘this was recorded in an abandoned tunnel in Marin Headlands, north of San Francisco. Audio taken from footage posted to YouTube, taken from Mark B. Allen’s 2007 film Pharoah Sanders Live In San Francisco!, which compiles concerts recorded in 1981 and 1982, alongside an interview with jazz journalist Herb Wong.
I was looking for information about the Dutch artist Stanley Brouwn and came across this…I've IM'd Jigg to see if I can get more information (I don't know anything about Brown, nor Alexander)and if I do, I'll share more details during the live broadcast. The video Jigg made on YouTube is short, and lovely.
German Progressive Rock band, founded in 1970 with Inga Rumpf (b: 1942 in Hamburg) on lead vocals....this their debut album. They were at the vanguard of Krautrock -- a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psych rock, electronic music and avant-garde composition among other sources. These artists moved away from the blues influences and song structure found in traditional Anglo-American rock music, instead utilizing hypnotic rhythms, tape-music techniques, and early synthesizers. youtube (Beat-Club)
From Weisbaden, Xhol Caravan, known first as Soul Caravan and later as Xhol, was one of the first bands to participate in the so-called Krautrock movement in Germany in the late 1960s. Many original tune on this albums, and also covers of John Coltrane & Horace Silver. Characterized as an early Krautrock band, they are none-the-less hard to categorize.
