Petr Bezru_ (1867 Opava – 1958 Olomouc) Named at birth Vladimír Va_ek, he was an important poet whose work often reflected the social and ethnic problems of the then Silesia region. His most famous collection of poems are the 'Silesian Songs', specifically this poem, 'Ostrava,' and 'Mary_ka Magdonová'. www.msk.cz
"American jazz pianist, born June 14, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; died June 28, 2021 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He explored a variety of genres from avant-garde jazz to Klezmer music."
"You've maybe never heard of Kash, but he's the masterful cellist, bolon/bolong and sarangi player who is a Marshall Allen/Sun Ra Arkestra regular side man. He and Marshall made Two Stars in the Universe, and they came together on June 10th to play an opening set for the screening of my film Nothing in the Way of Beauty in Philly. Kash lives with his wife north of Oakland, CA. "
Miriam Burton (d: 1991) had a brief burst into Exotica with this one. She appeared as a background singer for Harold Arlen and Harry Belafonte (perhap others).
This is Parker’s first spoken word album – poetry and observations from a his devotion to truth in beauty and speaking truth to power, say the liner notes. He's best known as a bass player, and on this collection, he picks up a range of flutes -- the dudek, shakuhachi, and some hand drums. He's now 72 years old. See link for more detailed reveiw
"Aftab PP (Urdu) born March 11, 1985) is a Pakistani-American singer, composer, and producer. She is from Saudi Arabia and has worked in various musical styles and idioms, including jazz and minimalism. She taught herself the guitar and gradually acquired her singing style while listening to Billie Holiday, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Mariah Carey, and Begum Akhtar. At that time, Aftab lived in a country where access to Western online platforms was difficult, and the infrastructure for independent music was lacking. In this context, however, she promoted her music in Pakistan, being one of the first musicians to use the Internet in the early 2000s; her renditions of ""Mera Pyaar"" and ""Hallelujah"" went viral and launched the Pakistani indie scene. Aftab moved to the United States at the age of 19 in 2005[3] and earned a degree in music production and engineering at Boston's Berklee College of Music. She moved to New York in 2010 and began working as an editor and scoring films. Since her graduation in 2010,[6] Aftab has lived there, being part of the city's jazz and ""new music"" scene.- wiki"
Tyranny was born Joe Gantic in San Antonio, Texas on the first day of 1945. (died 2020, 2 mos after release of this film). He grew up being Robert Nathan Sheff, that name taken from his adoptive parents. Starting early, Sheff studied the piano formally and in depth, yet he also displayed virtually from the outset natural flair and versatility, which never deserted him. It was that rare combination of apparent ease and evident brilliance, whether sight-reading or improvising, that led Kyle Gann, writing for The Village Voice, to cast analytical moderation to the wind and declare, “God plays piano though this man.” In 1962, Sheff enrolled at New York’s Juilliard School, but soon opted to follow Krumm to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where they got to know Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley and other artists involved with The ONCE Group. While still a teenager, Sheff took a leading role in organising events on the fringe of the legendary ONCE Festivals , promoting innovative and radical approaches to music. He featured as a pianist, playing songs by Ives; and Sheff’s own youthful compositions such as Ballad, Meditation Nine and Diotima were programmed alongside pieces by luminaries of the avant garde such as Cage, Ashley, Nam June Paik, James Tenney, Toshi Ichiyanagi and Earle Brown. The documentary is directed by David Bernabo and available on YouTube for $5.99 See link for more
"Thoreau"" is the 48th song in Ives's song collection 114 Songs. The song is preceded by the following quotation from Walden: ._His meditations are interrupted only by the faint sound of the Concord bell. 'A melody, as it were, imparted into the wilderness. At a distance over the woods the sound acquires a certain vibratory hum as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept...a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth, interesting to the eyes by the azure tint it imparts.'"
Rainbow Revisited is a collaborative studio album by South African musician Thandi Ntuli and American composer and producer Carlos Niño. It is primarily a solo piano-and-voice session, recorded one Venice Beach afternoon with percussionist/vibes’n’chimes orchestrater Carlos Niño lightly guiding and participating, at times bringing minor overdubs and post-production into the mix. The music is spare, laser focused on those incandescent gospel melodies that feel like a Mzansi jazz birthright, and on ways to minimally ornament them for a broader, internationalist (Anthem and otherwise) audience.Click link for full article in pitchfork
"Little inormation available. Ronald Simmons worked in the 1960s throuh the 1980s as a soul bassist and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. Considered to be part of the group Southside Movement. See link"
"Another from Rhodri Davies' collection. Laura Cannell is a British composer and improvising recorder player and violinist. Her work is known for combining the influences of early music, folk and experimental music. See link for more"
"Merrill (b: 1929) aka Jelena Ana Milcetic was born in New York to Croatian immigrant parents. She began singing in jazz clubs in the Bronx in 1944 when she was fourteen. She had three sisters and a brother who died before she was born. By the time she was sixteen, Merrill had taken up music full-time.- wiki"
"As Bill Smith (1926-2020), he was a jazz clarinetist who played with Dave Brubeck (subbing occasionally for Paul Desmond). As William O. Smith, he was a composer who pioneered unorthodox techniques for his instrument. Link for more. "
"Cem aka Cem Filiz (b: 1980) is a Turkish singer-songwriter, author, producer and director. Eroglu (b: 1946) is also Turkish, a folk musician and ba_lama virtuoso"
Lonely Drifter Karen are a multi-national pop band, based in Brussels, Belgium. The band consists of Austrian singer Tanja Frinta, keyboarder and producer Marc Melià Sobrevias from Spain and the two Frenchmen Maxime Malon on drums and Clément Marion on guitar, who joined the band in 2012.
"Hinton (1929-2018) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and vocalist, based in Johnston County, North Carolina, her bio (see link) says she had hands that had picked a million cucumbers, and they also picked the most rock-steady Piedmont blues you'll ever hear. link for more
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Batsumi ["B. Zwane, J. Mothopeng, L. Mothopeng, T. Masemola, Z. Bidi"]
"Armenian music troupe established Watertown, Massachusetts in 1989, with the aim of performing traditional Armenian music for a variety of audiences. This is their debut album. The musical director of Arev Ensemble and founding member is Martin Haroutunian"
