"Drums: Ray Lucas Piano, Vocals: Roberta Flack Bass: Ron Carter. This intro to the song was the theme song for ITMOTO in the early days, taken from Flack's debut album, and after the program shifted from DJ Melanie Berzon (Musically Speaking) and over to yours truly.It was WMBR Internationally Womens' Day Radio marathon. I catered the event. Melanie said she was moving to California (to host afternoon Jazz drive on KCMS in San Fran) and wondered if I knew anyone who might want to continue her show."

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on February 10, 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA. This live concert was held for Ghana's 14th Independence Day on March 6, 1971 at the Black Star Square in Accra. It featured an array of performers including Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Santana, Roberta Flack, and The Staple Singers. The concert was later released in theaters in August 1971, and select performances were compiled for the soundtrack album.Read about her trip to Ghana & the genesis of this concert…click the link.

"The ensemble, which numbers 150 members, was founded in 1983 by Rev. Milton Biggham, the lead vocalist and songwriter for the group. He put together the group from over 600 applicants, and recorded with them on his label Savoy Records in the middle of the decade.[1] In 1996 the ensemble appeared in the Whitney Houston movie The Preacher's Wife and performed at the 1996 Olympic Games. - wiki"

"Album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded for Blue Note in 1963, but not released under Parlan's name on the label until 1986.[1] The session was originally released under Booker Ervin's name in 1976 as part of the Blue Note 2-LP set Back from the Gig and later released as originally intended. Horace Parlan - piano, Johnny Coles - trumpet, Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone, Grant Green - guitar, Butch Warren - bass, Billy Higgins - drums"

"Title of album perhaps connected to tale of Odysseus who mourns the death of his men after a shipwreck, where they've been swallowed up by the wine-dark sea. In this interpretation, wine-dark sea becomes transformed from an epithet to a metaphor, we are meant to read it figuratively. - internet machine"

"Sounds captured and created from and in various places, including Chicago's Center for Search & Research, Chicali Outpost and Bronson Canyon in LA, Stanglehof in Italy, Jamie Linwood's house plus Yorkshire, The Baltic Sea, SudTirol, and Wyoming."

aka Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1923 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six and a half decades. He sang over 10,138 songs from 3,162 films,[2][3] including devotional, semi-classical, Carnatic, classical and light music songs.[4] He gave classical concerts starting in 1943 - wiki

Johnson is from Seattle, a staple in the local singer/songwriter scene, he parades around the alleyways of the Emerald City and the legendary Al’s Tavern singing his own tunes, though he is much better known as a member of a band called the Sons of Rainier. It’s taken nearly two decades for Johnson’s first solo album to reach the rest of us, and its release couldn’t be more bittersweet. -- Paste Magazine (see link)

"The album differs from Nelson's other albums because of the use of fewer instruments (two guitars, piano, fiddle) and has a more classical/Spanish influence than others. Nelson's sister Bobbie plays piano (tho not on this cut, of course).- wiki"

These recordings, dating from the '50s, were made by Gene Deitch at his kitchen in NYC using a Crestwood 404 tape recorder in the 1950s. Fast forward to about 2004, he played some of them on WNYC's show Spinnning on Air, subsequently released this 2009 album -- the reason for the resurrecton in interest in Connie. These recordings, dating from the '50s, were made by Gene Deitch at his kitchen in NYC using a Crestwood 404 tape recorder in the 1950s. Fast forward to about 2004, he played some of them on WNYC, subsequently released this 2009 album -- the reason for the resurrecton in interest in Connie. Elizabeth Eaton Converse (born August 3, 1924 – disappeared August 1974) was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is among the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music. Converse was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, the middle child in a strict Baptist family. Converse attended Concord (NH) High School, where she was valedictorian and won eight academic awards, including an academic scholarship to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She moved to NYC (Harlem) and began smoking during this time and started drinking, behaviors strongly contrary to her religious upbringing. Possibly as a result, her parents rejected her music career, and her father never heard her sing before his death. Read more on known details of her disappearance in the link. In 1974, Converse was expected to go on an annual family trip to a lake, but by the time the letters were delivered, she had packed her belongings in her Volkswagen Beetle and driven away, never to be heard from again.

The Pink Turtles are a French group who (in the view of one Amazon reviewer) managed to take popular songs and rearrange them into a more jazzy/bluesy collection.

"Frolund is 27 years old and Danish. He sits as principal clarinet of the Danish Chamber Orchestra. He's on bass clarinet for this arrangment. For the rest of the album, he's playing a range of clarinets -- A clarinet, a basset clarinet in A, and bass clarinet in B-flat. "

Lars-Ante Kuhmunen was born in 1979. He is a musician and reindeer breeder from Rensjön in Kiruna, a small town in the territory of Swedish Lapland (also known as Samiland). Lappland is the region inhabited by the Sami, geographically distributed throughout northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Kuhmunen specializes in yoik, the traditional vocal style of the Sami. He's released one other album since this, his debut. - sonichits.com

"He's an Amherst based musician. Tim first heard this song after he grabbed an unlabelled cassette from a friend's basement. Out poured Roscoe Holcomb. According to Tim, this was the last song Holcomb sang in publc -- at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and his voice gave way to tears and he couldn't finish. "

"Sounds captured and created from and in various places, including Chicago's Center for Search & Research, Chicali Outpost and Bronson Canyon in LA, Stanglehof in Italy, Jamie Linwood's house plus Yorkshire, The Baltic Sea, SudTirol, and Wyoming."

This song appeared on her album, “Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits.” The album sold 250,000 copies three weeks after its release in 1966. it was a smash hit...it made it to the Billboard Hot 100 list as well (peaking at #82). As bad as Mrs. Miller is, she had lots of fans. Elva Miller was born in 1907 and, by the mid-1960s, was a housewife who, on occasion, recorded herself singing. She’d sell these self-made albums to raise money for a local orphanage — it’s unlikely she ever expected to get a record deal, let alone cut a record that sold a quarter-million copies. Before 1967 was out, Miller appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show (on the same episode as, coincidentally, Nancy Sinatra), performed for soldiers in Vietnam alongside Bob Hope, and appeared on a TV variety show in duet with Jimmy Durante,

"American jazz sax player Clifford Laconia Jordan was born September 2, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, died March 27, 1993 in Manhattan, New York, USA. Sylvester Kyner Jr. aka Sonny Red played alto and flute, born in Detroit 1932 and died there in 1981. - discogs"

"Hathaway (1945-1979), the son of Drusella Huntley, was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised by his grandmother, Martha Pitts, also known as Martha Crumwell, in the Carr Square housing project of St. Louis, Missouri. Hathaway began singing in the church choir with his grandmother, a professional gospel singer, at the age of three, and studying piano. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963.[9] Hathaway then studied music on a fine arts scholarship at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he met Roberta Flack. On a trip to NYC, his friends became concerned when he appeared to be delusion...he apparently jumped out of window at the Essex Hotel and died at age 33. Hathaway's funeral was conducted by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. - wiki"

Calvin Coolidge Hernton (April 28, 1932 — September 30, 2001), born in Chattanooga, was an American sociologist, poet and author, particularly renowned for his 1965 study Sex and Racism in America, which has been described as _a frank look at the role sexual tensions played in the American racial divide, and it helped set the tone for much African-American social criticism over the following decade. From his Oberlin College obit, colleague Yakubu Saaka wrote: In the 30 years or so that I knew Calvin, I was always fascinated with what seemed to an obsession with dark glasses. The guy wore those shades all the time—sometimes even at night. Although I never had the courage to ask him why myself, I think I overheard Maya Angelou or one or other of his famous female writer friends explain the riddle of the dark glasses. Apparently he simply wore them because it made him look cool. With a middle name like Coolridge, I guess that explanation makes sense.

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Calvin Coolidge Hernton (April 28, 1932 — September 30, 2001), born in Chattanooga, was an American sociologist, poet and author, particularly renowned for his 1965 study Sex and Racism in America, which has been described as _a frank look at the role sexual tensions played in the American racial divide, and it helped set the tone for much African-American social criticism over the following decade. From his Oberlin College obit, colleague Yakubu Saaka wrote: In the 30 years or so that I knew Calvin, I was always fascinated with what seemed to an obsession with dark glasses. The guy wore those shades all the time—sometimes even at night. Although I never had the courage to ask him why myself, I think I overheard Maya Angelou or one or other of his famous female writer friends explain the riddle of the dark glasses. Apparently he simply wore them because it made him look cool. With a middle name like Coolridge, I guess that explanation makes sense.