It's hard to pin the date down, but if 1988 is correct, this would have been shortly before his death in May that same year. The latest account I've read is corraborated with Jimmy Scott, who was staying at the same hotel in Amsterdam the night he died. He'd been chatting up a girl in the lobby. Went upstairs to get cigarettes or something and locked himself out of his room. The room next door was open and he went in, climbed out the window to try to cross the balcony over to his room, slipped and fell to his death I've heard, too, he landing on one of the cement barricades built into the sidewalk below. I've been to the sidewalk under the window. RIP
"I Gufi was an Italian musical and comedy ensemble, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s. They had their breakout in 1966 with the show _Il teatrino dei Gufi_ (i.e. _The Little Theater of the Owls_), _ toured across Italy...their material encountered some censorship issues. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group achieved some further success. -- wiki Lino Patruno (see above) was a member of the group. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group got further success "
__THE TOAST,_ writes Roger D. Abrahams, who was an early collector _ commentator on such forms of African-American oral poetry, _is a narrative poem that is recited, often in a theatrical manner. … Toasts are not sung, and it is perhaps the lack of reliance on the structure of a tune that allows their freedom of form. But toasts do have a structure...the subject treated is freedom of the body through superhuman feats and of the spirit through acts that are free of restrictive social mores (or in direct violation of them), especially in respect of crime and violence. The reciters in this collection, presented anonymously, are referred to as _Tom_ and _Eugene,_ the former from a prison farm in Texas, the latter from the Connolly Migrant Camp in Barker, New York. I wonder why Abrahams didn't get the names of the men who composed and recited their work for this collection, as he was apparently there with them recording.
Beginning in 1937 guitarist Bulee _Slim_ Gaillard and bassist Leroy _Slam_ Stewart worked together for a number of years under the label of _Slim and Slam._ Among works of theirs that disassembled and reassembled language...Gaillard, creator of a variety of jive language that he named 'Vout_ or _Vout Oreenee,_ continued in this vein over several decades, including an extended work, Opera in Vout, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1946. Jack Kerouac wrote in _On the Road_ One night we went to see Slim Gaillard in a little Frisco nightclub. In Frisco great eager crowds of semi-intellectuals sat at his feet and listened to him on the piano, guitar and bongo drums. ... Now Dean approached him, he approached his God; he thought Slim Gaillard was God._ (Jack Kerouac, On the Road) Drummer on this is Pompey _Gus_ Dobson
Tune-Yards is a project by Oakland CA artists Merrill Garbus _ Nate Brenner. Whokill is is 2nd full length release. Thematically, Whokill is concerned with _power struggles that arise from inequity and lead to further cruelty and injustice,_ rooted in issues of privilege around race, gender and class. - wiki
This cover is from the movie classic Les Parapluies (Umbrellas) De Cherbourg. The spoiler is that, in spite of the enduring nature of this song, she did not (wait for him). Walker Bros formed in Los Angeles in 1964 by John Walker (lead vocals, guitar), Scott Engel (bass, harmony vocals), and drummer Al _Tiny_ Schneider. They later moved to the UK and achieved modest success.
This is from the 15th and final studio album by American vocalist and pianist Gil Scott-Heron -- he died the year following its release. The album features introspective, confessional lyrics expressing themes of regret, reconciliation, and redemption which deviate from his earlier music's agitprop lyrics and social, political themes -wiki
The Last Poets are several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement's black nationalism. The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The original users of that name were the trio of Abiodun Oyewole, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson.
"I Gufi was an Italian musical and comedy ensemble, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s. They had their breakout in 1966 with the show _Il teatrino dei Gufi_ (i.e. _The Little Theater of the Owls_), _ toured across Italy...their material encountered some censorship issues. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group achieved some further success. -- wiki Lino Patruno (see above) was a member of the group. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group got further success "
Mash up between flute intro of Synanthesia's Tale of Spider into Lloyd Miller's indo-jazz cello and back out into the rest of the Tale. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3133
