"University of VA produced this excellent series of conversations with a broad range of artists and thinkers for 14 years, beginning in 2000. All interviewees -- from Bill T. Jones to Angela Davis to Nikki Giovanni to Clarence Thomas, etc were asked the same core questions. See link Ogletree passed away recently.... he was a great thinker, bold lawyer, and passionate advocate for the disenfranchised. "
Fantastic new collection of field recordings fof Mack McCormick (1958-1971). This recorded on June 12, 1959, Murdoch’s Pier, Galveston, Texas. This is a great example of Bongo Joe Coleman’s improvisational style—recorded during the time he intrigued passersby and tourists by performing on the Sea Wall in Galveston. As for McComick, his concern was the region including Western Louisiana, East Texas, and sections of Oklahoma and Arkansas. McCormick referred to the individuals and communities where he conducted fieldwork as “tribal people” to distinguish them from the individuals and communities with middle-class aspirations in the region (Govenar 2019). McCormick distinguished between the popu- lations that retained cultural practices from the early 20th century and those that sought and attained more mainstream cultural values. - liner notes See link for more. Man at the Door is a reference to McCormick himself, who would walk up, knock on doors, and ask people to play for him. He was often a spectacle...white man at often impoverished black peoples' doors was not routine by any stretch.
"This taken from a 2007 Estonian drama film directed by Ilmar Raag. Themed on school violence, it was released on March 16, 2007 and starred Part Uusberg with singer Henri Pukk singing the part on this track. "
This is from a unidentified live/televised Christmas Eve special in Ireland. She'd recorded the song for the movie _In the Name of the Father_ The show aired within a year after Sinead's controversial tearing up the pope'd figure...warmly received by the host and the audience, and in light of the harsh response she was subjected to in America, it makes me think about what the Irish felt about her position about the Catholic Church.
No information is available about this artist. Beside this single release included in the compliation, they have one other listed single…River on another compilation: Know Future Vol. 2 Down Your Tempo
"Fantastic new collection of field recordings off Mack McCormick (1958-1971). recorded July 19, 1968, Searcy Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Alabama. Quills are an instrument made from cane strapped together resembling a pan pipe. The rising availability of harmonicas at the turn of the 20th century soon led to the widespread decline of quills in the South. When McCormick visited Patterson at the Searcy Hospital in 1968, Patterson had no quills. McCormick had someone collect and bring reeds from a nearby river, which Patterson crafted into quills by cutting the reeds to proper sizes and binding them together with hospital tape. McCormick thus not only saw quills played, but also recorded Patterson for the final time in his life, thereby adding a few selections to the otherwise scant recordings that exist of quills. See above for more on McCormick . - liner notes See link for more. "
This recording by Ewan McColl. Bob Dylan called her his favourite folk singer. Christy Moore says she still inspires him. Norma Waterson likens her to Edith Piaf and Bessie Smith. Sir David Attenborough put her on live TV. And even Van Morrison stops being grumpy to talk animatedly of “a great soul singer” when her name is mentioned. Born in Cork in 1917, she was a street busker. Alan Lomax's assistant Robin Roberts heard her singing her on a street corner and he went to investigate. There are great stories in a 2017 Guardian story (see link).
"An American 1960s folk-rock band led by Elaine _Spanky_ McFarlane who, with members of the group, hailed from Peoria, IL. She formed the group in '66 and their biggest hit, Sundays Will Never Be the Same. See link for a video performance. "
Besides huffin' and puffin' (or maybe because of the fact Nance he played trumpet, violin and (obviously) sang. He's known for his long association w/Ellington. His NY Times obit (see link) reports: In high school, he taught himself trumpet because “I wanted to hear myself on a louder instrument in way I couldn't do with a violin in an orchestra.”
"All to be found re: Belluzzi (translated from Italian)…born 1959, Belluzzi is a jazz double bass player, author and songwriter who collaborates with Italian and foreign artists. He composes the music for important commercials of famous brands, such as Parmacotto and Bilboa sun creams.
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LA born Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” He is a founding memberof the pioneering San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Stone’s practice emerged from the repetitive archival process of his graduate job at CalArts preserving vinyl recordings by dubbing them to tape. With perhaps 10,000 albums ranging from Renaissance and electronic works to music from across the globe, he had to re-record multiple discs concurrently, creating chance collisions and coincidences. In the decades since, he’s explored various ways to compose this process, creating temporal envelopes in which found sounds – existing tracks or field recordings – can take form. - bandcamp
"Folk band founded in 1956 by the Argentinians Carlos Ben-Pott, Ricardo Galeazzi, Jorge Milchberg and the Venezuelan Elio Riveros et Narciso Debourg. Best known in the end of the 60's after their collaboration with Simon & Garfunkel (_El Condor Pasa_). They were renamed as Urubamba in the 70's. -discogs "
"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)"
"Booker Ervin (born October 31, 1930, Denison, Texas, USA - died July 31, 1970, New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He died of kidney disease aged 39 . He is remembered for his association with bassist Charles Mingus. "
"Musician Dr. John described Booker as _the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced._ Flamboyant in personality and having an extraordinary technical facility, he was known as _the Black Liberace_. In 1949, at age 9, Booker was struck by an ambulance that he said was traveling about 70 miles an hour. According to him, it dragged him for 30 feet and broke his leg in eight places, nearly requiring its amputation.[7] He was given morphine, which he later regarded as a cause of his eventual drug addiction. Booker died aged 43 on November 8, 1983, while seated in a wheelchair in the emergency room at New Orleans' Charity Hospital, waiting to receive medical attention. The cause of death, as cited in the Orleans Parish Coroner's Death Certificate, was renal failure related to chronic abuse of heroin and alcohol - wiki"
"Excerpt from a concert tour recorded on 25 June 2003 at the Lillian Fontaine Garden Theatre in Saratoga, California. - wiki See link for more on her. "
