New York City based artist born in Miami to Haitian and French parents. She was the winner of the first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010
"There are a number of recordings on YouTube, like this one, capture Joplin in her early days of San Francisco. The year of this recording, Joplin was arrested in San Francisco for shoplifting. During the two years that followed, her drug use increased and she acquired a reputation as a _speed freak_ and occasional heroin user. She returned to Port Arthur & her parents with the help of concerned friends where she temporarilly regained her health and sobriety. Joplin told Rolling Stone magazine writer David Dalton the following about her first stint in San Francisco: _I didn't have many friends and I didn't like the ones I had._ Composer Henry Bernard Glover (May 21, 1921
Lulu Reed (March 21, 1926 – June 21, 2008) was born in Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio. As a child her family moved to Port Clinton, Ohio, where she sang in her local church choir. She was mentored by blind gospel singer Professor Harold Boggs, before winning an audition over 50 other contestants in Toledo to become the vocalist with Sonny Thompson's band. Credited as vocalist on Thompson's records, she made her recording debut for King Records in Cincinnati in late 1951, on the song "I'll Drown in My Tears" written by Henry Glover. The song reached no.5 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1952, and was recorded by Ray Charles in 1956 as "Drown in My Own Tears", with wider commercial success. She then left the music business in 1967/68, due to lack of true promotion by the last record company she signed with. Retired to Detroit where she lived and raised a family. - wiki
"Rabih Abou-Khalil is an oud player and composer born in Lebanon, who combines elements of Arabic music with jazz, classical music, and other styles. He grew up in Beirut and moved to Munich, Germany, during the Lebanese Civil War in 1978"
"One of the highlights of the pandemic zoom life. Moten and Mackey have been friends forever, and this small excerpt was taken from a longer conversation they had that evening. They were celebrating the release of Mackey's epic collection of poetry, Double Trio. "
"Davis' wife Frances Davis insisted he accompany her to a performance by flamenco dancer Roberto Iglesias. Inspired by the performance, Davis bought every flamenco album he could get at Colony Records shop in New York City. The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions largely derived from the Spanish folk tradition. Evans explained: _We] hadn't intended to make a Spanish album. We were just going to do the Concierto de Aranjuez. A friend of Miles gave him the only album in existence with that piece. He brought it back to New York and I copied the music off the record because there was no score. By the time we did that, we began to listen to other folk music, music played in clubs in Spain... So we learned a lot from that and it ended up being a Spanish album. The Rodrigo, the melody is so beautiful. It's such a strong song. I was so thrilled with that._ The folk songs in the album were inspired by recordings made by Alan Lomax in Galicia and Andalusia, which were released in 1955 by Columbia Masterworks."
This from the 8th studio album of Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013), an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s. The worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. Some considered him and Barrett to be the most influential figures in British pop music.
Maria Beraldo lives in São Paulo (BR) and composes the brazilian musical scene as clarinetist and singer of Arrigo Barnabé's group. This is her first solo album.
"Cut from debut album of DeMarco, who was born in Duncan, BC on the island of Victoria. From around 2012, DeMarco resided in Queens, New York. In late 2016, he moved with his girlfriend, Kierra McNally, to the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles - wiki"
Terry Pollard (August 15, 1931 – December 16, 2009) was an American jazz pianist and vibraphonist active in the Detroit jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s. She has been described as a "major player who was inexplicably overlooked. Besides this recording with Ashby, Pollard performed with John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald. Joining the two woman on this date were Herman Wright on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
Biber was an accomplished 17th century composer & musician born in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg. He is among the major composers for the violin in the history of the instrument. - wiki
"Belmont MA musician/composer/artist. One in a compilation, says Alex __of some of my leftover songs from different musical eras collected into a 15 minute mixtape_."
"Personnel: Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Jimmy Jones (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), Jo Jones (drums). Although he was a pioneer of the honking tenor saxophone that became a regular feature of jazz playing and a hallmark of early rock and roll, Jacquet was a skilled and melodic improviser, both on up-tempo tunes and ballads. He doubled on the bassoon, one of only a few jazz musicians to use the instrument. - wiki"""
NASA captured these sounds of the planet Venus in Spring 2021 during a close flyby of the Parker Solar Probe/ This probe will travel within 4 million miles of the surface of the sun
It is making flybys of Venus to help it slow down so it doesn't miss our host star.
"Featured with Harley's bagpipes is Nadir Qamar, Harp [Madagascar]. Harley was born in NC and moved to North Philly with his mother at a young age. He was reportedly of mixed Cherokee and African ancestry, and known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Scottish great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument.. He became inspired to learn the bagpipe after seeing the Black Watch perform in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession in November 1963. Then a maintenance worker for Philadelphia's housing authority, Harley began searching the city for a set of bagpipes. Failing to find one, he traveled to New York City, where he found a set in a pawn shop. He purchased the instrument for US$120, quickly adapting it to the idioms of jazz, blues, and funk. On several occasions, when a neighbor called the police to complain about Harley's practicing in his home, he would quickly put away his bagpipes and feign ignorance, asking the officers, Do I look like I'm Irish or Scottish to you? Harley made his bagpipe performance debut in 1964. From 1965 to 1970 he released four recordings as leader on the Atlantic label , also recording as a sideman with Herbie Mann, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins. He later recorded with Laurie Anderson (appearing on her 1982 album Big Science). In addition to bagpipes, on these albums he also occasionally played tenor saxophone, flute, or electric soprano saxophone. Harley often wore Scottish garb, including a kilt, in conjunction with a Viking-style horned helmet. He favored the key Bb minor. In addition to his performing career, he worked for the Philadelphia Housing Authority for many years. "
