Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten (Chapel Hill, 5 januari1893 - Syracuse, 29 juni1987) was een Amerikaans folk- en bluesmusicus. Ze introduceerde een eigen tokkelmethode omdat ze als linkshandige een rechtshandige gitaar bespeelde. Haar bekendste lied is Freight train dat ze op twaalfjarige leeftijd schreef.
In 1972 werd ze voor haar aandeel in de folkmuziek onderscheiden met de
Burl Ives Award. In 1987 werd ze kort voor haar dood onderscheiden met
een Grammy Award voor haar livealbum uit 1984.[1]
Het Newport Jazz Festival word elke zomer gehouden in Newport, Rhode Island,USA. Voor het eerst in 1954, georganiseerd door jazz impresario George Wein en gepromoot doorElaine Lorillard waarvan haar rijke man hielp met de financiering van het festival . De meeste van de vroege festivals werden uitgezonden op de Voice of America radio en vele optredens werden opgenomen en zijn uitgegeven door verschillende platenmaatschappijen.
Louis Armstrong Up a Lazy River, Tiger Rag,Rockin' Chair Louis Armstrong & Jack TeagardenWhen The Saints Go Marchin' In Louis Daniel Armstrong (New Orleans, 4 augustus1901 – New York, 6 juli1971) was een Amerikaansjazz-trompettist en -zanger en entertainer. Zijn bijnaam was Satchmo of Satch, een afkorting voor Satchelmouth (buidelmond). Hij was ook bekend als Dippermouth, net als Satchmo een referentie aan zijn grote mond.
All of me
Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was een blues, R&B en jazz zangeres.Vanwege haar krachtige stem en haar emotiniele manier van zingen werd ze ook wel de "Queen of the Blues"genoemd.Ondanks haar vroege overlijden op 39 jarige leeftijd is ze een van de meest invloedrijkste zangeressen van de jaren 50/60. In 1986 is ze geintroduceert in de Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Mahalia Jackson "Everybody Talkin' 'Bout Heaven" "Didn't It Rain" "The Lord's Prayer"
"I was told that some of you dudes don't know anything
about blues," King said as he began his performance. "That's what they
told me. So I wanna say this to you: I came to swap some with you. I
imagine that quite a few of you dudes have the blues already." Scott Meslow
"There was a riot at Sing Sing prison but it was a riot of music,
emotion, enthusiasm and good feelings. What a day. What a concert!"
Jerry Oster, New York Daily News
Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound,[1] Buchanan worked as both a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career,[2]
and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart.
Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still considered a highly
influential guitar player.
CIRCLE OF SONG II
NASHVILLE NETWORK SPECIAL PRESENT By Carlene Carter
ORIGINAL AIR DATE AUGUST 2,1995
Tupelo Honey is from the fifth studio album by Northern Irishsinger-songwriterVan Morrison. It was released in October 1971 by Warner Bros. Records. Morrison had written all of the songs on the album in Woodstock, New York, before his move to Marin County, California,
except for "You're My Woman", which he wrote during the recording
sessions. Recording began at the beginning of the second quarter of 1971
at the Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco. Morrison moved to the Columbia Studios in May 1971 to complete the album.
"Mr. Tambourine Man" was written and composed by Dylan in early 1964, at the same approximate time as "Chimes of Freedom," which Dylan recorded later that spring for his album Another Side of Bob Dylan.[1][2] Dylan began writing and composing "Mr. Tambourine Man" in February 1964, after attending Mardi Gras in New Orleans
during a cross-country road trip with several friends, and completed it
sometime between the middle of March and late April of that year after
he had returned to New York.[1] Nigel Williamson has suggested in The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan that the influence of Mardi Gras can be heard in the swirling and fanciful imagery of the song's lyrics. Journalist Al Aronowitz has claimed that Dylan completed the song at his home, but folk singerJudy Collins, who later covered the song, has stated that Dylan completed the song at her home.Dylan premiered the song the following month at a May 17 concert at London's Royal Festival Hall.(Wikipedia)
B.B. King Live In Africa ‘74
B.B. stands onstage before Muhammad Ali and a crowd of 80,000 on the continent his ancestors left in chains and gives one of the most thrilling performances of his life. “The King of the Blues” (B.B.), “Soul Brother #1” (James Brown) and other African-American artists on the bill reveled in the return to their cultural motherland for a gala affair that was attended by fans and journalists from all over the world. The backstory around this perfonnance is rich
.
BB King - I Believe To My Soul - Live in Africa 1974
Behind B.B. is a large orchestra,
made up of core members ofB.B.’s touring band - pianist Ron Levy, drummer Sonny
Freeman and saxophonist Bobby Forte - plus studio musicians recruited (mostly) from
New York, including renowned session guitarist Larry Carlton. Directed by Hampton
Reese, B.B.’s longtime friend and musical tutor (you’ll see him in his plaid sport coat
conducting the band), this collection of musicians achieved their amazing performance
after a single rehearsal in Kinshasa. Hampton wrote the charts for all the songs in the set,
and every musician was playing from those charts.
Of the musicians who played that concert from B.B.’s 1974 touring band, only
Ron Levy is still living.
Sir Van Morrison described himself as just a “blue-eyed soul singer”
from Belfast as he was knighted for a musical career that has enthralled
audiences and delighted critics.
Over more than 50 years the singer has gone from teenage stardom to
innovator and is now a respected veteran, whose classic album Astral
Weeks regularly makes the list of top 100 albums of all time.
The artist, whose full name is George Ivan Morrison, was introduced as
Sir Ivan Morrison as he stepped forward to be dubbed a knight by the
Prince of Wales in Buckingham Palace’s ballroom.
