SMOKEY ROBINSON / “Smokey’s Love Songs” Mixtape
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
In the post-fifties years no one else has written as many popular love songs as has Willaim 'Smokey' Robinson.
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24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday - January 2010 album of the month for Superfly Records!
Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday (CD/LP) Numero Group NUM025, 2009-07-28 Classically trained Detroit arranger Dale Warren got his start with the famed Motown label and, from the late 60s throughout the early 70s, composed the majority of string scores for soul artists on Stax Records (arranging for such artists as Billy Eckstine , Eddie Floyd , Isaac Hayes , Albert King , and the Staple...
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Marvin Horne, Greg Bandy & David Certain to perform Sunday, March 14 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Bassist David Certain sends word that he's put together a trio show with guitarist and St. Louis native Marvin Horne ( pictured ) and drummer Greg Bandy for Sunday, March 14 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups . Born in St. Louis in 1953, Horne has worked with Chico Hamilton, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, The Dells, Nancy Wilson, Billy Eckstine, James Spaulding, Jack McDuff and many others. He can...
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The Love We Lost: On Teddy Pendergrass
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
When I was a child, my mom had never been into music that was too funky. While other parents were bopping their heads to James Brown and showing their kids how to dance as Kool & the Gang blared from the speakers, my bougie mother was content listening to Frank Sinatra singles on WNEW-AM, going to Lena Horne concerts on Broadway and being as square as the last big Johnny Mathis hit sometime in...
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January 4, 2010
breath of life (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
We kick off the funky new year with The Ohio Players and then head to Zimbabwe for mbira music featuring Chinwoniso, Netsayi and Stella Chiweshe. We close out the week with Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" featuring Sarah Vaughan, Lester Young, Carmen McRae, John Coltrane, Billy Eckstine, Mauricio Einhorn, Aaron Neville, Kermit Ruffins, Esquizito, Dizzy Gillespie All-Star [...]
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Book review | “Posing Beauty: African American Images”
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 12/26/2009
Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine. Her trademark flower is pinned behind her left ear. Pages later, a handsome Muhammad Ali and a suited James Brown are laughing as they stand together in a convertible Cadillac during a parade in 1960s Chicago.
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Savoy Jazz Partners With Universal for Australian Distribution Deal
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Savoy Jazz, the U.S. record label which is home to some of the most iconic artists in the history of jazz music has confirmed a new marketing and distribution agreement with Universal Music Australia (UMA), it was announced today by Steve Vining, President of the Savoy Label Group (SLG). Beginning January 4, 2010, the entire Savoy Jazz catalog, which includes the...
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Price Drop: BigBand (entertainment)
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
BigBand 1.0 Category: Entertainment Price: $1.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: The Big Band App is devoted to rare visual clips of musical legends of the Swing and Big Band era such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole, Gene Krupa, and many more. It consists of the earliest versions of music videos produced in New York,...
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A Screaming Comes Across the Sky...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009
From 1952, please enjoy Spike Jones and the City Slickers and their, er, remarkable version of "Deep Purple." That's a fairly obscure Jones track, and I first heard it on the compilation above, from 1994; believe it or not, it was released on Catalyst, RCA's now defunct (I think) avant-garde classical subsidiary. Tim Page (a former NYTimes classical crit who ran the label) tried to package...
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The Best, 2007 Style
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Please excuse my interruption of Three Sunsday with this collection from some years ago. I'm trying to throw these up at Noon every Sunday (which includes Sunsday) and it's about that time. As I explained last week , Christmas in July is a tradition here at Ernie (Not Bert) that consists of me finding Christmas music on non-holiday records and sharing out those tracks. The collection you're looking...
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Obituary: Jazz musician Opal Mann, 84, backed Billie Holiday
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Opal Mann Opal Mann, an accomplished jazz musician who played piano in Sacramento nightclubs, accompanied African American church choirs and backed Billie Holiday on stage, died Friday at age 84. She died of cancer, said her daughter, Mellissa Truitt. For many music lovers, Mrs. Mann was a bridge to the golden age of African American jazz clubs downtown. She played piano in bands at the Momo Club...
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Books of The Times: Power and Style, in the Ring and the World
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Wil Haygood’s biography of Sugar Ray Robinson captures the great midcentury boxer’s grace and power as well as it’s been captured.
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Mirror, Mirror: A quiet book of images of everyday black beauty
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine. Her trademark flower is pinned behind her left ear.
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Bloody November
Laal Bear's Den (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
In the words of Billy Eckstine " I Apologise " first for bad language in the title and second not posting for a fortnight . As the title of this post suggests I don't like November . It's cold , wet ,miserable and worst of all dark . It seems to be a family trait , as when I visited my Cousin the Mechanic on Monday he to was feeling low and morose . But fear not dear readers I have been busy...
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LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANI FIVE: [2005] Jukebox Hits Volume 1, 1942-1947 [Acrobat]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Collectors of Golden Oldie R&R, R&B and Country music hits are, I'm sure, well aware of the quality received from British outlets, especially Ace Records with their almost flawless sound reproduction and copious liner notes in series such as The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll and Teen Beat, among many others. Acrobat Music & Media Ltd. is almost as good with their Jukebox Hits series...
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