"London Music Works are a group of musicians specialising in the playing of film and TV soundtracks. Drawn from the best session musicians in London, many of them also perform in other ensembles, from classical orchestras to West End musicals and jazz bands. Their popularity has soared in the last two years, leading them to play a sold out show at Islington Assembly Hall last summer and giving them a Spotify following of almost 40,000.- Soundcloud Moon is a 2009 film tjt follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. "
With Shabak (Hutchins): percussionist Carlos Niño, keyboardist Surya Botofasina, pianist Amaro Freitas, Ganavya, a South Indian devotional singer turned shape-shifting avant-gardener; and Nala Sinephro, a Caribbean-Belgian harpist and synth specialist.
Quincy (Delight) Jones (1933-2024) was born in Chicago. His family moved to Seattle, where his musical talent (beginning with trumpet) sent him to Boston-based Schillinger House on scholarship. Founded in 1945 by Lawrence Berk, it was the first college level school dedicated to the study of jazz. It was renamed Berklee in 1953 by Berkee after his son, Lee Berklee. Jones spent a year there then moved to NYC where the rest is history. On this date, wth Jones conducting: Baritone Saxophone–Pepper Adams; Bass &Grumble scat–Major Holle; Bass & Bari Sax–Danny Bank; Cello–Alan Shulman, Kermit Moore, Lucien Schmit, Seymour Barab; Drums–Grady Tate; Flute–Hubert Laws; Guitar–Eric Gale, Toots Thielemans; Keyboards–Herbie Hancock; Percussion- Jimmy Johnson; Soprano Saxophone–Jerome Richardson; Trombone – Al Grey, Benny Powell, Tony Studd, Wayne Andre; Trumpet, Flugelhorn–Danny Moore, Ernie Royal, Freddie Hubbard, Marvin Stamm, Gene Young; Vibraphone–Milt Jackson. There are a number of singers credited on the album, but unfortunately, they don't specify which sings on this cut: Valerie Simpson, Marilyn Jackson, Maretha Stewart, Barbara Massey, Hilda HarrisClick link for Allmusic review.
"Spotify says: The 1965 classic Rescue Me is widely regarded as the gretest record Aretha Franklin never made. NEVER, that is. The sosng in question was cut by Fontella Bass who, like Franklin, channeled the power and passion of her gospel roots into some of the finest music of the soul's golden age. Note, Franklin didn't even enter the scene until 2 years later. Bass was born in St. Louis in 1940, her mother Martha a member ofthe Clara Ward Singers. She appeared occasionally with the Art Ensemble of Chicago into the 70's spending most of two decades as a homemaker and singing with her church choir. - se ink for more. "
"I've gone back into Nurse Jackie bing.If you haven't head of it (or watched it), wiki describes it as an American medical comedy-drama television series that aired on Showtime from June 8, 2009, to June 28, 2015. Set in New York City, the series follows Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco), a drug-addicted emergency department nurse at the fictional All Saints' Hospital. SO GOOD. I recorded this bit with my cell phone off an episode where Jackie discovers that her lover has been surreptitiously been hanging out at her husband's bar, and they're becoming friends. She locks her self in a room and scarfs down 4 vials of liquid morphine, falls back into a reverie, with this soundtrack. The tapping sound is made by a mouse in the drop ceiling above her...she's watching its shadow through the plexiglass light square. Then, enter my real-time grandfather clock chime. "
Flute [Bamboo]–Shabaka Hutchings, Harp–Charles Overton, Vocals–Saul Williams. Discogs: Williams is an American singer, musician, poet, writer and actor, born February 29, 1972. Has released a variety of solo works and also collaborated with the likes of drum & bass producer DJ Krust and Trent Reznor. He has also starred in the movie "Slam" (1998). Shabaka (Hutchins) leads the band Shabaka and the Ancestors, and formerly led Sons of Kemet (*I love their work) before its dissolution in 2022. He was also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings was born in 1984 in London, England but moved to Birmingham at the age of two. From the age of six, he was raised in his parents' native Barbados. There, as a nine-year-old, he picked up the clarinet and practised along to the hip hop verses of Nas, Notorious BIG and Tupac, as well as the rhythms of Crop Over. Hutchings' father, Anum Iyapo, is a graphic designer who worked on albums by artists including King Tubby and Jah Shaka, and recorded a reggae poetry album called Song of the Motherland in 1985. - wiki
Translated for Tamashek-Berber/Tuareg, the song title is What Have You Got to Say, My Friends? Lyrics are timely: What have you got to say, my friends, about this painful time we’re living through? You’ve left this desert where you say you were born, you’ve gone and abandoned it; We live in ignorance and it holds all the power; The desert is jealous and its men are strong; While it’s drying up, green lands exist elsewhere; We live in ignorance and it holds all the power Click link to find more on this band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali
"Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (1942-2023 in Detroit) played the clubs of his hometown, releasing this one record, and abandoned music for a hardscrabble day job in demolition. His story has become legenary, and he rose to mythical status when some film makers decided to pursue the ""what ever happened to Rodriguez?"" The answers given in their documentary Searching for Sugarman, and my own extraordinary experience of discovery....on a respite on Wairei Island off the coast of Auckland, two blocks of downtown included a tin roofed building that served as the town's cinema. I bought a ticket and sat on one of the broken down couches lined in rows in front of a screen...soon, every couch was full, the smell of Indian take-out wafting through the air, lights went down, and on came this film I knew nothing about. As soon as the sound track began playing -- all the songs from Cold Fact -- everyone in the theater began singing along, knowing every word. I was stunned and confused. I'm sure I was the only American there, and I seemed to be the only person who didn't know a thing about this great folk singer from Detroit. It as a remarkable way to be carried into the story, having the mystery of him explaned and, at the same time, my own present-siiting-in-this-theater experience was revealed. "
Carolyn Kizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and was a fellow of the Chinese Government in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In 1959, she co-founded Poetry Northwest and was its editor until 1965. She served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (1966–1970), was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and served as poet-in-residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. She died in 2014 -coppercanyopress.org
"Carolyn Kizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and was a fellow of the Chinese Government in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In 1959, she co-founded Poetry Northwest and was its editor until 1965. She served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (1966
The Danish composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) was one of the 20th century’s great “silent individualists.” Although largely self-taught, he was the first Danish composer who attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. Without a doubt, the avant-garde of the sixties exerted a strong influence on Borup-Jørgensen's sound world, but he never embraced any specific “ism,” following instead his own intuition and his extraordinary sense of organizing sound. Borup-Jørgensen's handwritten scores are of almost calligraphic quality and beauty and reveal him to be a meticulous craftsman and magician of tone color, traits on full display on this very special tribute in honor of the composer’s centenary. The vast majority of his work is devoted to chamber music. - ourrecordings.com"
"Lennarth Daniel Norgren (born 18 July 1983), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Norgren's debut album Kerosene Dreams was mainly recorded on homemade instruments. On stage, Norgren plays the drums and guitar, with Anders Grahn on upright bass, while Andreas Filipsson sometimes accompanies the duo on a homemade organ. See link to a Youtube live performance-wiki"
"(PNME) is an American ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the group was established by composer David Stock in 1976. It has premiered over 200 works and is a major regional cultural attraction"
Chicago based Burch describes her sound as “messy minimalism.” The twelve tracks evoke variously the sweet kind of zoning-in that allows the listener access to their own feelings; the generative meditations of First Thought, Best Thought-era Arthur Russell., Vivaldi or Laurie Anderson – if they’d been ultra-gentle satellite reflections of Chicago’s minimalist and avant-garde music histories... _What has come through in this album,_ she says, _is a more domestic style of music: the simplicity of life and sound-making. The word I’m shy to use is ‘feminine’ but it’s true, and I reclaim it in all its power._- bandcamp
Mann (aka Hebert Jay Soloman, 1930-2003) was born in Brookyn and grew up in Brighton Beach. Both of his parents were dancers and singers, as well as dance instructors later in life. Wiki goes on... The record is one of the best-selling Jazz albums of all time. Rolling Stone said "Memphis Underground is a piece of musical alchemy, a marvelously intricate combination of the "Memphis sound" and jazz lyricism"... was a favorite album of writer Hunter S. Thompson, who mentions it positively in several chapters of his book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail. In the article The Battle of Aspen, Thompson states that his "Freak Power" campaign used Mann's recording of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as the background music for their commercials. The composer, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), sez wiki....was a lyrical poet and prolific author in her own right. Howe is best remembered for her new words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She was active in prison reform, the fight to end slavery, and the fight to win equal rights for women. She was reportedly inspired to write the song after a visit with Union troops in the thick of the Civil War.
