"I recorded this at her performance last Sat. As mysterious and wise as ever, singing songs only she can make. Tim Ray is on keyboard. She was born Jane Stewart in Toronto, 1955. Her career has taken many turns, including changing her name to Issa in 2006. She explained at the time _ I didn't know if I'd be in the music business any more. I just started writing. I wanted to let go of any expectations and just try to get closer to what I heard in my head... I just tried to write as precisely as I could to what I heard in my head. I slowed everything down and took one note at a time, and just waited until I heard the next note._. She assumed her original name 3 years later after producing a raft of new material. "
Lansky & MacKay drew inspiration from Vermeer's Painting _The Love Letter._ Looking through a doorway, you see a woman holding a lute. She's handed a letter by another woman…. This middle instrumental section is taken from a spoken word collection of 8 discreet pieces, with a similar sensibility -- observing a woman from a distance, considering what she's carrying, watching, reading, hearing, knowing...
"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. Most of the songs on this album (Buck) were recorded in Norgren's home on a 4-channel cassette porta-studio. -wiki. See link to a Youtube live performance"
"Debut album by Rubber Zebra, recorded and released in 2007. This album was recorded and produced by Chad Vickers in his basement studio in Durham, N.C. USA. Vickers and Corey Woods both played Drums, Bass, Keyboard, and Guitar on this album. They also sang vocals and backup vocals.Dustin Holt played Guitar on this album and sang most of the vocals. - discogs"
"The album was recorded in 1968 at Detroit's famous Roostertail Restaurant, a popular venue where Motown artists appeared during the 1960s and 1970s. The concert that spawned the album was aimed at an adult supper-club crowd, instead of the group's usual teenaged market.- wiki The club is still in operation, sitting right on the Detroit River waterfront and a popular venue for weddings. The river is 28 miles long and serves as the international border between Canada and the United States, connecting Lake St. Clair and the Upper Great Lakes to Lake Erie, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. It supports more than 3 million waterfowl, millions of walleye migrate annually through its waters, and where the river empties into Lake Erie, protected wetlands support over 300 threatened and endangered species. According to AmericanRivers.org, heavy traffic and the urbanization on its shores led the Detroit River to become very polluted mostly because of car manufacturers industrial waste. There are efforts underway to clean it up and restore native habitat. "
Recorded in 1964 at Van Gelder Studio in NJ, with Getz we hear Vibraphone–Gary Burton; Drums–Joe Hunt; Bass-Gene Cherico. The composer, Michael Gibbs, (b: 1937 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe) was a trombonist who also gets credits as conductor, composer, arranger, musical director, producer, and more rarely, keyboardist and drummer. He is well known among prog/hard rock fans as orchestral arranger worked with Uriah Heep in mid 1970s. - discogs. This tune has few number of plays compared to other choices on the album on Spotify, but I find it most interesting.
Son of Stan, he's a drummer (1948-2017), joined by Guitar – Rick Schmidt; Electric bass-Rick Steffens; Vibes & piccolo flute-Lonnie Meurer; Alto & throat mic-Fly McClard. Recorded in Denver. His mother, Beverly Sangerska Byrne (b: 1927 in NH) was Stan's first wife. She was a jazz singer & they met in a club where she was singing. They had three children and eventually split...children separated from her b/c of her drug addiction. She died at age 39. Getz, with his own life-long struggles with herion, left primary care of raising his children to his 2nd (Swedish) wife, Monica Silfverskiöld. See link for bio on Steve.
Santamaria (1917–2003) was born Ramon _Mongo_ Santamaría Rodríguez and raised in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1950. He had grown up with rumba, a Cuban genre of music encompassing dance, percussion and song. This tune written in 1959, is built on a 3:2 African cross-rhythm (hemiola), was the first jazz standard to use this pattern, in which the bass plays six cross-beats per measure of 12/8 with 4 main beats played by marimba and flute. Many jazzers and others have adapted it. I recently heard it performed by the Black Indian society Keepers of the Flame in New Orleans .
Vocals – Eddie Jefferson; Baritone Saxophone – Pee Wee Moore; Bass – John Lathan; Drums – Clarence Johnson; Flute, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – James Moody; Piano – Jimmy Boyd; Trombone – William Shepherd; Trumpet – Johnny Coles. Moody (1925-2010) was born in Savannah, GA...American jazz saxophonist, flautist and vocalist who enjoyed a long musical relationship with Dizzy Gillespie. - discogs
Sinatra (b: 1941 in Jersey City) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and author. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra (née Barbato). Sahe has 13 solo studio albums to her name, and has remained active since she began performing in 1957 on her father's variety show. - wiki
"Drifting is the first of a series of four recordings by Squid in Chains that were developed at the Canadian Music Centre Creative Residency in Vancouver, Canada over three weeks in late 2023 to January 2024. The album is the result of recording hours of intense sessions of creative exploration, then sifting through to find the gems. -bandcamp"
"Jones (b: 1954 in Chicago) is living now in New Orleans, still touring, and experimenting with podcast, video, and a Substack channel she calls Fishsticks. The Magazine is her 3rd of 15 studio albums. After its release, Jones took a brief hiatus from recording until 5 years later came Flying Cowboys. "
"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"
"Pleasant aka Florence Pleasant (1933-1989) was an accomplished tho little-known Hammond organist specialist, singer, and composer. Far as I can tell, this is her only release and this is a tune she wrote with her mother, Euleh Chapman. Pleasant was born and rasied in Corpus Cristi, TX. From an early age, she played piano with the likes of Nat King Cole, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, and Count Basie. won a music scholarship to Xavier College in Louisiana. However, she dropped out of school after only two years, married, had a child, and was widowed in quick succession. In 1954, her father was shot and killed by her mother during a domestic dispute which eventually led her to separate from her family. The Houston Metropolitan Research Center maintains an archive of her work (see link) "
"Edanan (1925-2021) was born in Lebanon and s Her biographer, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, describes Edan as a _shaman and activist_. Besides her writing accomplishments, she was a painter, a journalist and editor, and had a degree in philosophy. She and her Lebanese-born partner Simone Fattal moved to Sausalito in 1980. - internet references. The Miracle Marathon brought together practitioners from the fields of activism, art, anthropology, architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theology and science to focus on ritual, imagination and magical thinking."
"Sez Cole: I wrote these pieces for less brilliant pianists than him, too - amateur and lapsarian pianists like me. So I encourage you not just to listen to these, but to get a copy of the score and put your hands on a few bars. - bandcamp"
"Duke (aka Anna Maria Duke, 1946-2016) was born in Bellvue Hospital/Mahatten to [parents who worked as a cashier (mother) and cabdriver (father). Raised Catholic, Duke had dreams of becoming a nun in her youth. Duke spent her early life in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens,[2] where her brother Raymond, her sister Carol, and she experienced a difficult childhood. Their father was an alcoholic, and their mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was eight, her care was turned over to talent managers John and Ethel Ross who, after promoting Patty's brother, were looking for a girl to add to their stable of child actors. The Rosses' methods of managing Duke's career were often unscrupulous and exploitative. They gave her alcohol and prescription drugs, took unreasonably high fees from her earnings, and made sexual advances to her.[7] She never saw her father and saw her mother only when she visited to do the Rosses' laundry. -wiki She went on to win highest awards in acting, had her own network television show, and became a public advocate for mental health after her 1982 diagnosis of bi-polar disorder. "
"This is off the is the twelfth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. According to wiki, going into the making of Tusk, Lindsey Buckingham was adamant about creating an album that sounded nothing like Rumours: _For me, being sort of the culprit behind that particular album, it was done in a way to undermine just sort of following the formula of doing Rumours 2 and Rumours 3, which is kind of the business model Warner Bros. would have liked us to follow._ As a consequence, it's considered more experimental than the band's previous albums...Buckingham's sparser songwriting arrangements and the influence of post-punk. The production costs were initially estimated to be about $1 million but many years later were revealed to be about $1.4 million (equivalent to $5.88 million in 2023), making it the most expensive rock album recorded to that date. - wiki"
The Syn are an English band that were active from 1965 to 1967, and then reunited as a progressive rock band in 2004. This live recording comes from the 2009 festival (Rites of Spring) held in Sarasota, FL...one of North America’s longest-running and most renowned art-rock music festivals, it seems to still be getting back its feet post-Covid.
