Excerpt from an interview by the Danish poet Mette Moestrup in August 2017 in connection with the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
"Akira Ishikawa Ishikawa Akira) November 10, 1934 - February 10, 2002 was a Japanese jazz drummer, session drummer and bandleader who had a keen interest in African traditions. Born in Kanagawa Yokosuka. "
"A pick from this week's Album Club. 21st studio album for Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (aka Dr. John). Born and bred in NOLA, his father ran an appliance shop. Throughout his adolescence, his father's connections enabled him access to the recording rooms of rock artists, including Little Richard and Guitar Slim. He was 13 when he met Professor Longhair....soon began performing with hium and that began his life as a professional musician. - wiki "
See link for personnel. Ronald Boykins (December 17, 1935 – April 20, 1980) was a jazz bassist and is best known for his work with pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, although he had played with such disparate musicians as Muddy Waters, Johnny Griffin, and Jimmy Witherspoon
"This unusual collection captures songs workers sang as they harvested, fished, tamped railroad ties. The mastermind of this and many other collections of Japanese traditional music is Japanese musicologist Tomiko Kojima. She has curated many collections, including one featuring _unusual musical instruments_ (natural stone flute, a recorder with all holes closed, many/assorted drums). Find her on Discogs to explore further. "
"Blythe's debut. The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4 stars and states _Jazz listeners who want to get _lost in space_ can consider this tasty slab of late-'70s indie jazz akin to a ticket on the Mars shuttle. - wiki (Note: This is even long before there was a Mars shuttle. Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone; Abdul Wadud, cello; Ahmed Abdullah, tmpt; Bob Stewart, tuba; Steve Reid, drums; Muhamad Abdullah, percussion. "
"Armstrong was a west coast, Julliard trained reed player drawn to _multi-instrumental textural dexterity_ (allmusic), drawing out sounds from flute (as on this cut), bass clarinet, alto, and at times bassoon. He was based mostly in Bellingham, WA, paying his bills by teaching contemporary music at Western University and crossing over to gig in Vancouver. "
Lyrics by Allen Ginsberg. Alto, Soprano Sax – Roy Nathanson; Trombone - Curtis Fowlkes; Vibes; Bill Ware; Violin - Sam Bardfeld; Bass - Brad Jones; Flute - Sean Sonderegger; Human Beatbox - Napoleon Maddox ; Keyboards - Hugo Dwyer; Organ - Bill Ware. See link for background context on Nathanson
Shakkûr's (1944-2009) musical intuition was borne of a spiritual power that drew listeners into the mystical tradition of Sufism. His bass voice with its richly rounded timbre made him one of the most famous singers in the Arab world. -- see link for full obit
"Thanks Rick Biskit Roth, Second Fiddle. Morlix Born in Buffalo, New York, Morlix moved to Texas in 1975 and performed with Blaze Foley. He moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and joined Lucinda Williams's band. He accompanied her from 1985 to 1996 and produced two of her records, Lucinda Williams and its follow-up, Sweet Old World"
Recorded August 12, 1975 at Vanguard Studios NY. Waters is written up in a 1977 NYTimes article by Stanley Couch who's describing what's happening in the free jazz lofts of NYC. He writes of hias visit to Live Loft Jazz on Bond Street ($4 admission)…_the most outstanding musician on the bandstand is an alto saxophonist named Monty Waters, who doubles on the soprano saxophone and flute. The audience is riveted. He went on as a sideman for James Brown BB King, Coltrane, and Miles. _ See link ...Alto Saxophone – Monty Waters; Bass – Ronnie Boykins; Drums – George Avaloz; Guitar – Yoshiaki Masuo
"Andrew C. Russo is an American pianist. Russo born in Syracuse, New York (my hometown). Studied at Julliard, and traveled the world studying and performing. Now based in Skaneateles, NY "
In January 2020, songwriter Kevin Morby witnessed his father collapse from a medical event while visiting his childhood home in Kansas. In a state of shock, the singer spent the evening looking at old family photos and fixated on an image of his father as a young man, looking, as Morby states, “full of confidence.” The experience forced Morby to confront both the idea of mortality and the passage of time — and, after an extended sojourn in Tennessee, these reflections came together in the form of his upcoming album, This Is a Photograph... Rolling Stone. March 2022 (see link for full article)
"This unusual collection captures songs workers sang as they harvested, fished, tamped railroad ties. The mastermind of this and many other collections of Japanese traditional music is Japanese musicologist Tomiko Kojima. She has curated many collections, including one featuring _unusual musical instruments_ (natural stone flute, a recorder with all holes closed, many/assorted drums). Find her on Discogs to explore further. "
"Gay is a poet, born in Youngstown in 1974. For this album he also collaborated with Bon Iver, Mary Lattimore, Angel Bat Dawid, and Sam Gendel, margin dwellers all. "
Time:
5:22
Artist:
Etta James ["Ellington Jordan, Billy Foster, Etta James."]
This from her first appearance at the festival where she performed many times until her last in 1988. She first recorded it in 1967. This is one of those songs I still remember where I was the first time I heard it.
