Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Not Shy in the Way She Works a Lyric
New York Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Baby Jane Dexter’s new show at the Metropolitan Room is aptly named “All About Love” because it covers so many aspects.
Bessie Smith
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Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos: Without You - $7.00
Undertow Music Collective (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
01. If You Ever Slip 02. Big Old House 03. Dancer In the Dark 04. As the Crow Flies 05. What Else? 06. Don’t Wait Too Long 07. Bessie Smith 08. It’s Gonna Change 09. Mind Machine 10. So Much Time 11. Without You
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N’DAMBI / “N’Dambi Mixtape”
breath of life (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
N'Dambi's Pink Elephant is one of the best R&B albums of 2009.
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Ma Rainey: Booze And Blues
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ma Rainey singing "Booze And Blues" Ma Rainey singing "See See Rider Blues" in 1925. Ma Rainey Mp3s @Amazon.com Notes from YouTube; Recorded: New York , October 15 1924 'Ma' Rainey And Her Georgia Band Ma Rainey (vcl), Howard Scott (cn), Charlie Green (tb), Don Redman (c), Fletcher Henderson (p), Kaiser Marshall (d) Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey...
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V: Disney does New Orleans
Voices of New Orleans (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
And Randy Newman does (most of) the music: Dr. John sings the opening number, "Down in New Orleans," which Newman hesitates to describe except to agree that "it sounds of the place and of the period. Bessie Smith could have done something like it. "I thought they'd ask me to do it," Newman adds about the vocals, "but they wanted Dr. John's voice. They had us doing a part,...
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Bonnie Raitt & Norah Jones: Beautiful & Talented
KK & R Music Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
An excellent track Wiv Keef Bessie Smith
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Randy Newman
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Music News: The Princess and the Frog -- New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century - the setting of Disney's animated "The Princess and the Frog" - is territory that composer Randy Newman has trod before.
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Check out these videos!
Gretawire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Olivia Newton-John ....a children's choir....and Dorothy Hamill.....what a combo!
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Betty Boo and other delights
Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Just looking through this week’s update of 63,270 tracks on Spotify. The first thing to catch my eye was Betty Boo’s 2007 comeback single Take Off, which I had not heard of before, let alone heard. A bit hi-nrg, gay-disco for me, but it got me all nostalgic for Betty Boo and got me to [...]
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Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Black...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Black Water Rising sounds like it could be the name of a blues number sung by Bessie Smith or Memphis Minnie. And, in its own way, Locke's book is a kind of blues for the generation that came of age, as Locke's parents did, during the days of the civil rights and black power movements, and had to contend with its aftermath. Set in Houston during the Reagan era, it's...
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Telegraph Names '100 Best Jazz Recordings'
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
And what's No. 1? King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, for what it's worth, followed by the complete Bessie Smith, but the list is strictly chronological, not ranked. The dates range from 1923 to 2009; in a telling detail, fully one-third of the titles have been deleted from the catalogs....
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New Orleans Musical Ambassador
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
In 1986 LILLIAN was honoured by her city with the official title of 'Musical Ambassador' which had not been bestowed on a New Orleans musician since the world famous Louis Armstrong. LILLIAN has been compared with the legendary female voices of Jazz music as Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson and she has had the unique distinction of being one of the only performers...
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Killer Songs
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Here is Dinah Washington covering Bessie Smith. Send me to the electric chair. Delia's Gone. Johnny Cash Killing Floor. Wolf. This post is giving me the willies.
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Haunted House Blues: Bessie Smith
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I figure I'll get an early start on Halloween! This is from 1924. MP3 File yousendit
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No meeting today; good lunch meeting at Valencia Park earlier
A Better Shreveport (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
No meeting tonight, since a number of us have already met earlier today. Those of us on the Coates Bluff team had a very good lunch meeting today at Valencia Park with Councilman Monty Walford, Head of Caddo Parrish Department of Parks and Recreation Larry Reynolds, School District 4 representative Charlotte Crawley, and Stoner Hill Neighborhood representatives Bessie Smith and Howard Allen. Thanks...