Booker T. Washington White better known as Bukka White, was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a phonetic misspelling of White's given name Booker, by his second (1937) record label (Vocalion).
Hindi Zahra (born 1979 in Khouribga, Morocco) is a Franco-Moroccan singer.[1] When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name.[2] Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song Imik Si Mik are in the Berber languages..... Hindi has drawn comparisons with Portishead, Manu Chao, Billie Holiday, Patti Smith, and Norah Jones.
... He’s laid himself bare, and in doing so has created a home of sorts after a wandering-soul existence: this is his discomfort zone, but well worth paying a visit to.>
My primary genre is jazz, however I like to think that this album
combines old school style with a more modern pop sensibilities. ....
As much as I love standards, I have decided that there is tons of room for
new compositions in the realm of vocal jazz…hence all the originals.
In terms of my background, I started singing with a swing band at a young
age and find myself loving everything jazz and blues influenced. After
recording my first solo jazz CD in 2006 I was invited to perform at the
Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival as well as the Beaches International Jazz
Festival and have been immersing myself in the local music scene ever
since. ....
What's different: The past two years I have been employed as a music
teacher at a school people with neurological disorders (basically music
therapy) I have recently tapped in to a new way of delivering and writing
music in a simple way, and teaching voice movement to people with autism.
I have in fact shaped this into a Masters thesis which I love to talk
about if asked…:) I like to think it has shaped the songwriting on the
Latest album..
... In 1948, Carter was asked by Lionel Hampton to join his band.. Carter too had a deep love for bebop as well as a talent for it. Hampton's wife Gladys gave her the nickname "Betty Bebop", a nickname she reportedly detested.Dedicated website
“I thought that form of expression, the heart and soul and the energy that goes into it…I’d never heard anything like that
.... Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often fearsome temperament, which earned him the nickname "The Angry Man of Jazz." His refusal to compromise his musical integrity led to many on-stage eruptions, exhortations to musicians, and dismissals
.... When Mingus moved on to the Four Star label and recorded with his octet in 1946, promoter War Perkins added the "Baron" appellation to sell records and denote Mingus' presumed musical royalty. The stellar addition to Mingus' group was pianist Lady Will Carr, whose work subtly accentutated the more emotional approach of "This Subdues My Passion," her arpeggios fluttering behind the muted brass
Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940. It was Guthrie's first commercial recording and the most successful album he made. It is sometimes considered the first concept album.
This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.
Notes from YouTube:
From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a
film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th
1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on
mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)
Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert
was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal
tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie
was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best
venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were
truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the
dance floor.
Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:
3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
| 1. The House is Rockin |
| 2. Tightrope |
| 3. Look at Little Sister |
| 4. Texas Flood |
| 5. Leave My Girl Alone |
| 6. Wall of Denial |
| 7. Superstition |
| 8. Cold Shot |
| 9. Life Without You |
| 10. Crossfire |
| 11. Voodoo Chile |
this a consistently good album that confirms Marcia Ball’s piano expertise and good taste. I’ll listen to it a lot.
Jimmy Rogers was born on June 3, 1924 and he passed away on December 19, 1997. He was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, who was best known as a member of Muddy Waters' band.
According to Wikipedia;
Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, 1924, and was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and Memphis, Tennessee. He adapted the professional surname 'Rogers' from his stepfather's last name. Rogers learned the harmonica alongside his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager took up the guitar and played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois (where he played with Robert Lockwood, Jr., among others), before moving to Chicago in the mid 1940s.[citation needed] By 1946 he had recorded his first record as a harmonica player and singer for the local Harlem record label (not to be confused with the New York based label of the same name), although his name was not including on the label — the record was issued under the names 'Memphis Slim and his Houserockers'.
Rogers joined Muddy Waters the next year, with whom he helped shape the sound of the nascent Chicago Blues style. Although he had several successful releases of his own on Chess Records beginning in 1950 with "That's Alright", he stayed with Waters' until leaving his band for a solo career in 1954.
In 1995 Rogers was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
Here is an interesting video about the life and times of Billie Holiday, gives a different perspective on her life and music.
