Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music.
Yo Rok, I found this on "You Tube"; it really encompasses New Orleans music, when I'm listening to it, I slide back in time to the better days I'm sure New Orleans has seen. Besides the music, it has a lot of interesting photographs. Post whatever you like and I'll respond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61BORipCoI |
Nice 'Fusion'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROAaB9JlZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxCBa_DnEpc Cheers |
One of my favorite singers. Very well crafted songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NYlzCkNio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGNYSGghKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEEqZ7Zt_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTaW9sPXsk Cheers |
I think this guy has promise, if he picks the right material. I first saw him on the Playing for Change version of stand by me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcsqhnpIByU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ip6SE0mtik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Rubq7vQkI Cheers |
"Lonesome Lover" by Max Roach with his orchestra and chorus. I have never heard anything quite like it. By the acoustics, it sounds like it was recorded in a large room. All of the musicianship is great, but the chorus seems to add another element of a time gone by- at least that is how it sounds to me. I love it. |
Although I liked listening to the music, not sure I would buy it; here is an interesting video of the place; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgvoKSTQR-k |
For those of you whose musical interest extend pass New Orleans and Jazz. VOICES OF MUSIC. I just found them on you-tube, maybe they are new to you also. Great music and the you-tube production is outstanding. Check out all their videos. There are many. Love it !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEFceMhcyns&list=PL764FC1C2B52AEC62&index=8 Cheers |
Certain subjects cause my blood pressure to rise, and that's not good; "No more forever sounds good to me" That's the most incredible album ever; any time you can get two records without a bad note on either of them, that's spectacular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHold6ylvEM I enjoy this record by the process of "osmosis"; that's when you sit and let the blue vibes soak into your spirit; that piano talks to my soul, it communicates with my inner self. |
Today's Listen: Ray Charles & Milt Jackson -- SOUL BROTHERS / SOUL MEETING 2CD package. If you love the blues, this is for you. Ray on alto, Milt on piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRQaE6pZjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28dBlEQWi4 Cheers |
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Give it a rest rok. It doesn't accomplish anything to say things like this.***** Your statement is truer than you might think. This situation is common in real life, not just here. My siblings and I have lost many, many 'friends', because we don't think like we are 'supposed to think'. So, as the great Nez Perce Chief, Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, might have said, had he been into be-bop, "From where the sun now stands, I will comment no more forever". Cheers |
I, Orpheus, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed. "That I will obey the orders of the President of the United States." Somebody saved a few lives with a helicopter and was reprimanded because he didn't have orders. |
Katrina was Gods will, the wall is questionable; what was not Gods will was the response after the disaster. I saw that none response for three days on National TV. If I tell you water is coming over a wall behind me, and you take a week to throw me a rope, you want me to drown. I saw those bodies floating that should have long ago been safely rescued. I know the resources that were available for disaster that were never called upon and so does everyone else who was a medic in the Air Force, Navy, or the Army. Did God will for the White House not to pick up the phone? Could the fact that most of the people suffering were Black have anything to do with it? |
Today's Listen: Terence Blanchard -- A TALE OF GOD'S WILL (a requiem for katrina) Beautiful music. Typical left-wing liner notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj79ZUaHmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr5guBDp51c I don't think he received proper credit for this effort. This is really good. Guess that's what happens when a natural disaster in politicized. Cheers |
I've had Abbey is Blue on my play-list for sometime. While Dianne Reeves exuberant afro-centric performance was best if you were there, Abbey's version is best in the seclusion of one's room. That song tells a story; while Dianne's is the most exciting, Abbey's tells the story the best; 6 on one hand, a half dozen in the other, it depends on what mood you're in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbE7jf_Hp5w Every time I see this I fall in love with Lizz Wright, but I like the rest of the woman as well; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_Qk1AN5S4 |
Today's Listen: Sometimes things can be improved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiHS8Hf7Tb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp4YKvx37w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AGjw9yVOw And the winner is? Cheers |
My favorite blue player singing a classic song written by the greatest blues song writer. (Willie Dixon). Both from Mississippi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI also: should have went on to Mexico. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI Cheers |
B-3 and Hank Crawford: I always loved Hank Crawford. Sharp dresser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nbouwehaMY Cheers |
Baby-Face Willette might be from New Orleans; I know his music hits some New Orleans licks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNkag9AKgbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOANP-92NqQ |
Casandra Wilson from "Jackson Mississippi" is one of my favorites, and from what I heard, she still lives there. Son House, if that ain't the blues I would like to know what is; as one girl I knew would say "Just throw me out in the alley and let me roll with the rest of the tin cans"; that's when she was enjoying the low-down Blues. |
Today's Listen: Classic song. Two versions by two of Mississippi's greatest, one a legendary blues singer and one a current Jazz singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvnT0X9eFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY I could never listen to Son House, if I was at home alone at night. Cheers |
Keegiam, thanks for this information; "There are folks in inner city America who have never known, or known of, a family member that has ever had a job. Generations." I didn't realize things have been that bad for that long, and just to think, President Obama gave banks and corporations Billion for bailout. |
Before this country was even founded, there were "peasants"; people with nothing but their labor to trade for wages. Long after this country was founded, someone came up with the idea of "unions"; those unions enabled "common people" formerly known as "peasants" to earn much higher wages, to include medical and dental benefits. They achieved the highest standard of living ever in history for "peasants". Along came "Trickle down economics" and union busting, plus "Right to work states"; no longer did plants have to pay those high "union wages"; they could just relocate in the South; you remember, that place where people worked for no wages at all once upon a time. Yesterday "common people" AKA peasants had a standard of living high enough to live "The American Dream"; today, corporations earn the highest profits in history. I wonder how things got switched around? Whatever happens, blame it on a poverty stricken, powerless, minority that's hardly surviving; that's the southern way. |
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Here in Baltimore, we lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1960, and you don't need 3 guesses to figure out which race got laid off first.***** Give it a rest. In Texas we say, 'that dog won't hunt'. There are folks in inner city America who have never known, or known of, a family member that has ever had a job. Generations. But your congressman went ballistic over the conditions at the southern border. I just assumed he had already solved all problems in Baltimore. So did the prez. Cheers |
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Where exactly was that new work?***** Well, a major source of the old work was Auto, Steel, Coal, Major home appliances and the industries that supported them. A lot of this work went to third world countries with slave labor wages, and some of it went down South. Corvettes in Kentucky, Ford Fusions in Mexico. And for some inexplicable reason, we gave a large slice of the auto industry to that parasite called Canada. We now have BMW plants in South Carolina, Mercedes in Alabama, Nissan in Mississippi, Toyota in Mississippi and Kentucky. GM in China. VW is also in this country. Not sure about Honda. The list goes on, but these are the major players. That's the old work. The new work? Whatever replaced those jobs. I am retired and no longer in the job market, if I were I could be more precise. So maybe the smart thing to do would have been to recognize that although great grand father worked at Ford, and grand dad worked at GM and father worked at Ford, all in Detroit and the Midwest just maybe, those jobs would not be there for you. Remember youth unemployment is the problem You do not have to be a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing. And to please the OP, there are white folks in KY and WV waiting on coal to come back. The prez said he would do it. Forget for a moment, that the entire world is going away from coal. Inertia is a bitch!!! Required reading : "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance Cheers |
@orpheus10 "In one word, what took St. Louis down was "JOBS"; when the going got rough, the tough got going and left, leaving the majority of neighborhoods to those least able to fend for themselves, and crime was for some, the only viable way to make a living." Bingo - here's someone who gets it. Here in Baltimore, we lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1960, and you don't need 3 guesses to figure out which race got laid off first. Whites stayed employed and used their money to move away (after housing discrimination was outlawed) - leaving the unemployed in the crappy city housing that was all they could afford. Capitalism moves on to the next best thing wherever it's happening, sometimes leaving millions of the least skilled (and intentionally marginalized) behind. Whether it's steel or coal, ex-employees and their families are left in the vacuum with little means of moving with the investment capital. |
@rok2id "St Louis has suffered the fate of all large cities." An incredibly gross over-simplification. Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Denver, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Diego - need I go on? Stick with music rok - your understanding of American sociology is wanting. BTW, I've driven I-70 across Kansas. I felt like I was on a treadmill, with the same desolate landscape punctuated by a town with a grain silo on the north side about every 11 miles. I'm glad we have Kansas, and I'm glad people live there and farm. But I have no use for driving through it again, and I'm not sure I get your affinity for it. |
So Orpheus 10, I usually read your posts, but I read a lot of posts and rarely comment. I do believe you explained both "there's no most important instrument" and poverty vs affluent very well. Doesn't mean there aren't any thugs. But thugs come in every race, nationality and shape. And yes the whole country is falling apart. But we don't seem to care. |
Today's Listen: Lester Young, one of Mississippi's finest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHj9uNZOgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxZ3r1LGA4Q Cheers |
Nikonnola, there are no most important instruments; only most important musicians. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-story-behind-charlie-parkers-plastic-sax-on-jazz-at-masse... |
