Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a powerful gospel and folk blues singer and masterful acoustic guitarist, “truly, one of the supreme talents to emerge from the Piedmont tradition” (Bruce Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986, p. 330). Continue reading
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Tagged Baptist, Big Bill Broonzy, blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Bastin, Davis, Gary Davis, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Harlem, J. B. Long, Jackson Browne, Jorma Kaukonen, Keb Mo, Long Island, Missionary Baptist Connection Church, New York, New York City, Ollabelle, Resurrection Band., Reverend Gary Davis, Roy Book Binder, South Carolina, The Grateful Dead, Townes van Zandt, Wizz Jones
New York-based guitarist Greg Skaff s third ZOHO organ trio release, following the successful, equally Harlem-themed Ellington Boulevard (2004) and East Harlem Skyline (2009). Continue reading
Posted in HArlem Jazz, HArlem music, Music, Music Review
Tagged 116th & Park, All About Jazz, ballads, blues, boogaloos, burners, Duke Ellington, East Harlem Skyline (2009), Ellington Boulevard, George Benson, Grant Green, Greg Skaff, organist Pat Bianchi, Pat Bianchi, Pat Martino, Ralph Peterson Jr., Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery
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Jazz has become a part of America like apple pie and baseball, but Court Carney’s Cuttin’ Up: How Jazz Got America’s Ear shows a period in time when Jazz wasn’t accepted. Carney describes how the original people who created Jazz had to be sucked out of the art form so that it could become popular. Jazz was a highly criticized music genre, due to its elements that combine other genres of music. Carney performs CPR onto the art form by injecting the people and the history back into the shell of what popular Jazz became. Continue reading
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Tagged Benny Goodman, blues, Chicago, Cotton Club, Court Carney, Cuttin’ Up: How Jazz Got America’s Ear, Harlem, Janee Nesbitt, Jazz, Los Angeles, Music, New Orleans, New York, Ragtime, Savoy
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