Bagpipes, Saxophone – Rufus Harley; organ - Bill Mason; Larry Langston: percussion; Larry Randolph: electric bass. Taken from a live recording, 1967. Excerpted from his foundation website: Rufus Harley Jr. the world's first Jazz Bagpipe Virtuoso. Harley modified an ancient instrument by tuning his drones producing harmonizing notes to F and B-Flat to play with other musicians. Harley mastered the art of taking nine notes and unconventionally creating a sound that would live on for ages.
The Soulful Strings were a group of studio musicians from the Cadet Records’ house band put together by Richard Evans. They issued seven albums in the late 60s, the first of which was “Paint It Black” in 1967. Five of these albums reached the US album chart, with “Paint It Black” landing at #166. The tune was released in 1892, part of Tchaikovsky's music for the Nutcracker Suite ballet. The original choreography was by Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov. There is some dispute in this regard...at the time, Petipa was suffering from pemphigus, a debilitating skin disease. Some accounts credit Ivanov with creating the choreography, others say he was merely carrying out Petipa's direction. Probably lands somewhere in between.
"Graduated from Yale, now teaches at Mannes in NYC, her Instagram describes her as a composer interested in tiny sounds, leaves, stacks of thirds, and music that jitters"
In 1967, Baraka (1934-2014) changed his name from LeRoi Jones to the Bantu Muslim name Imamu Ameer Baraka (later Amiri Baraka); this change was inspired by his time at San Francisco State University and his relationship with Maulana (Ron) Karenga and the cultural nationalist association US Organization. An article in the Boston Review (see link) describes him as _one of the most invisible of visible poets. Readers see him but they don’t really see him._ Baraka's brief tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey (in 2002 and 2003) involved controversy over a public reading of his poem _Somebody Blew Up America?_, which resulted in accusations of antisemitism and negative attention from critics and politicians.
"Song first recorded and released in 1927 by Blind Will Johnson (1897-1945). In addition to Jones, this compilation includes covers by Ry Cooder, The Imperial Gospel Singers, Kronos Quartet, and Little Axe. There are only 30 known recordings of Johnson. This includes all but two: _If It Had Not Been for Jesus_ and _Jesus is Coming Soon,_ "
AKA George Alexander Aberle (born April 15, 1908 – died March 4, 1995) was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, best known for his song Nature Boy (think Nat King Cole). His lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Asian mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruit, and nuts. He claimed to live on $3 per week. This coincided with King Cole's recording topping the charts, and Ahbez was featured on the cover of leading magazines & newspaper columns across the world (see link, hit translate button). Ahbez was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish father George Philip Aberle and English mother Margaret Annie (Mason) Aberle. He spent his early years in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York. He then traveled in an Orphan Train, was adopted in 1917 by a family in Chanute, Kansas, and raised under the name George McGrew - wiki
"12th century funeral song. From liner notes: Tape-recordings of the Georgian people's polyphonic songs represent important musical impressions. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian folk music, the origin of which begins in ancient time. It is a wonderful finding and can give to the performance much more than all the modern music can ... Yodel or 'Krimanchuli' as it is called in Georgia is the best song which I have ever heard._ (Igor Stravinsky, 1967)"
"Waldo's music is what inspired the opening sounds for Nightbird, Alison Steele popular late night show on WNEW in NYC. Waldo (b: 1918) lives in Tacoma, WA...she'd be 105 years old by now. Wiki details: She is American violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist. A scholar of pre-Colombian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music. Her melding of ancient and contemporary styles of American music ranks Waldo among the pioneers in the genre now known as Exotica. See link for bio on this fascinating woman. "
"When Hinson (b: 1981) was four years old his family settled in Abilene, Texas where his father had secured a professorship at Abilene Christian University.[6] Early in Hinson's childhood his parents would listen to Neil Diamond and John Denver records and instruments such as a little Disney keyboard,[7] a dulcimer and his grandmother's piano were ever-present in the house. Hinson's father bought him his first guitar when he was around 11 years old so that Hinson could perform in a fifth grade talent show. This is his most recent of 12 studio albums. - wiki"
"Kotunov is Russian, from Orenburg, one of the main agricultural centers of Russia, located nearly 1000 miles SW of Moscow. The town is home to the oldest prison in the country formed in 1745. Called Black Dolphin and named after a sculpture made by prisoners and placed out front. Since 2000, the prison has housed approximately 700 of Russia's worst criminals, including child molesters, murderers, terrorists, cannibals, and serial killers. Prisoners at Black Dolphin are all serving sentences of life imprisonment."
Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee (27 June 1935 – 4 November 2008), was a Jamaican musician, record producer, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires. His mother was Chinese Jamaican, father full Jamaican, and is known to have introduced the electric bass guitar to Jamaica in late 1959 or 1960. However, the reason Lee began to use the electric bass as opposed to the double bass had nothing to do with sound. Rather, it was a way for Lee to avoid carrying the large and heavy double bass to the truck to move from gig to gig. The bass guitar soon gained popularity throughout the country and soon became the standard. - wiki
"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. "
Felix (June 14, 1938 – March 22, 2020) was an American-British folk singer and recording artist who achieved success, particularly on British television, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She later performed and released albums on her own record label. She was born in Santa Barbara, to a father of Mexican and Native American origin and mother of English and Welsh ancestry. Reportedly had affairs with Paul McCartney and Dusty Springfield, she met David Frost on an elevator in Chelsea (London) on her way to a performance in an apartment there. He came, was impressed, and arranged to have her perform on the BBC which boosted her into the wider culture of the time. - wiki
AKA George Alexander Aberle (born April 15, 1908 – died March 4, 1995) was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, best known for his song Nature Boy (think Nat King Cole). His lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Asian mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruit, and nuts. He claimed to live on $3 per week. This coincided with King Cole's recording topping the charts, and Ahbez was featured on the cover of leading magazines & newspaper columns across the world (see link, hit translate button). Ahbez was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish father George Philip Aberle and English mother Margaret Annie (Mason) Aberle. He spent his early years in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York. He then traveled in an Orphan Train, was adopted in 1917 by a family in Chanute, Kansas, and raised under the name George McGrew - wiki
"Translated, When Love is Lust, also goes by the title Village Girl. The movie was released in 1973 and this soundtrack by Morricone (1928-2020) apparently lost until its recent release in 2022"
It was written by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon–McCartney), and thematically documents the personal difficulties that were facing the band. The song was written by McCartney when he was staying with his wife Linda in New York in March 1969 shortly after their wedding. This was a break following the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. John Lennon and McCartney were at risk of losing overall control of Northern Songs, the company that published their songs, after ATV Music bought a majority share. McCartney had been largely responsible for the group's direction and projects since the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967, but he began to realize that the group dynamic of the Beatles was unraveling. He was particularly unhappy at the others, who wanted manager Allen Klein to help resolve financial matters. McCartney later said that the song was written with Klein in mind, saying _it's basically a song about no faith in the person_. Recording started at 3pm and went on until 4am the next morning. McCartney sang lead and played piano, Lennon played an Epiphone Casino guitar, George Harrison played a Fender Telecaster guitar fed through a Leslie speaker, and Ringo Starr played drums. The group recorded 36 takes (the one today is that last take), selecting take 30 as the best -- wiki
"This intro is taken from Patti's live 77th birthday performance at the Brooklyn Steel on 12/30/23. She follows with the song, live, but this recorded track sounds better than my small collar lav was able to capture."
