Cameron K's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
John Alexander Veliotes was born in 1921 in Vallejo, California. His father owned a grocery store in a predominantly black neighbourhood in Berkeley, California where John and his brother Nicholas grew up. He took up drums as a teenager and later learned piano and vibraphone. After attending a Count Basie concert he was so impressed by Joe Jones‘s drumming he decided to take the study of percussion...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I've just watched Gladys Knight on Jools Holland's show on BBC2 and was in raptures. She's fantastic. To think that it's nearly 50 years since I first heard her sing with the Pips. Doesn't seem possible. Still. it made me think about the great female singers who I've had the pleasure of hearing and, in some cases, seeing over the years. So here is my top 50 female singers (and apologies to any I've...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
If you can't beat 'em..... What's your favourite Beatles cover version ? My top 5 off the top of my head are And I love Him-Esther Phillips We can work it out-Stevie Wonder You can't do that-The Supremes Across the Universe-Fiona Apple Dear Prudence-Siouxsie And The Banshees
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Right, we've got things to do, let's get on with the first of them. Three years ago we ran a feature throughout November by the name of Songs To Learn And Sing , wherein we invited bloggers, friends, countrymen to write on one topic: "the song you think everyone should hear". As you can see from that link, we tried to do it again the following May, where it was about as successful as all...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Go away. How is it that you're still here? Don't you have some traffic in which to play? Go on, go away. Scoot. Shoo. Scat. Amscray. Jeepers, why won't you go? What is it you want from me? Oh. Right. I'm a medium. You want a reading. And, if I give you one, you will turn tail and head far far away, is that correct? Ahhhhh. That I can get behind. Here you are: Ha ha ha you're so funny. You can even...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
This is a week of funky blues, kicking off with Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, followed by Oumou Sangare & Idrissa Soumaoro, two masters from Mali. And batting clean-up is the magnificient Esther Phillips. The blues in a bunch of different manifestations.
breath of life (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Esther could do it all, one of the last truly versatile singers.
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The 2009 Calabash International Literary Festival, that almost wasn't because of sponsorship woes and then seemed destined for another deluge of rain like those which have affected it in previous years, opened under clear skies on...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
Repeating Islands reports that leading off the readings at Jamaica's Calabash Literary Festival this year will be “Jamaican writers Velma Pollard and Esther Phillips, and Bajan poet Millicent Graham.”
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Happy Birthday to Gil Scott-Heron!
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 03/28/2009
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. Rounding up H. JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Hey Joe / Stone Free (Polydor 56139 1966) This must have sounded like it was beamed in from another planet when it appeared just at the very end of 1966. EDDIE [...]
All Free Download Links (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
VA - 25 ans de Radio Nova 1994 Pop | MP3 320 Kbps | 95 MB | 2006
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
It is a hopeless cause to catch up with doing these notes on Bob Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour” show from XM Satellite Radio, but then around here we make what many consider to be hopeless causes our specialty. As anyone who heard it would surely have to agree, this was one of the very [...]
Between Strangers (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
1 Little - Esther Phillips Little - Esther Phillips Rate: 114 ratings. Sign in to rate. Views: 43,764. Share: Favorite: Playlists: Flag: MySpace ... Little Esther Phillips - Release Me - 45 rpm Garbarek Vitous Erskine Ayumi Sakurai
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Joe Beck, 62, a jazz guitarist who collaborated with Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, James Brown, and other major artists, has died.
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