Dr. Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1996. Ramani is also credited with introducing the long flute into Carnatic music. Thyagaraja (Telugu) (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Thy'gayya, was a composer and vocalist of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music. He was prolific and highly influential in the development of India's classical music tradition. Ty'gar'ja began his musical training at an early age under Sonti Venkata Ramanayya, a music scholar, after the latter heard his singing and was impressed by the child prodigy. Tyagaraja regarded music as a way to experience God's love. - wiki
"The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider American audience, appearing frequently on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the United States. - wiki"
"This is the sixth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine and the fourth by Areski Belkacem, also French, of Algerian descent. It is their second collaborative album, and the first of a string of albums co-credited to both artists. Fontaine remains active at age 83, In 1971, she was one of the women who signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly admitting to having an abortion at a time when it was illegal in France.-wiki". Click link to watch
"Born & raised in Queens, Tucker is a former musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. She plays standing up rather than sitting down and has released four solo albums, where she played most of the instruments herself. When she was asked to join the Velvet Underground, Tucker had dropped out of Ithaca College and was working for IBM as a keypunch operator. As a teenager Tucker was an avid fan of Babatunde Olatunji, whose music she first heard on Murray the K's radio show. Olatunji, along with Bo Diddley and the Rolling Stones, inspired her to become a musician. She began playing the drums in 1963, at age 19. Without any formal instruction, she learned by playing along with popular songs on a second-hand drum kit. She's now in Georgia. In April 2009, Tucker gave an interview at a Tea Party rally in Tifton, Georgia, to a WALB NBC news crew. She voiced support for the Tea Party movement and said she was _furious about the way we're being led towards socialism_. On the official _Tea Party Patriots_ website, Tucker stated: _I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama's plan is to destroy America from within.- wiki "
Ella McLain's died. This is from her going home service. One note in the liner notes…_In 1993, the Southern Baptist Convention produced a _map of the damned,_ which calculated that 46.1% of the people in the counties surveyed were going to Hell. I've been unable to find any trace of it on the internet. I'd love to know what data sets they used to calculate.
"8th studio release from Brown. Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 at approximately 1:45 a.m. EST at age 73, from congestive heart failure, resulting from complications of pneumonia. His manager, Charles Bobbit, later reported that Brown stuttered, _I'm going away tonight_, then took three long, quiet breaths and fell asleep before dying. In 2019, an investigation by CNN and other journalists led to suggestions that Brown had been murdered. - wiki"
"Hollywood actor Telly Savalas is best known for his iconic role in Kojak. Savalas held a degree in psychology and was a world-class poker player who finished 21st at the main event in the 1992 World Series of Poker and included in other little known facts, was his recording ambitions. This is one of at least 5 (apparently) album releases by Savalas. He speaks, and he also sings (rather decently). Click link for discographical details. "
He was born in San Francisco in 1928. As a young man, Fleisher played with classical music’s greatest. After being signed by Columbia Masterworks, he became known for his interpretations of piano concertos by Brahms, Liszt and Beethoven, and was conducted by Leonard Bernstein and George Szell. But in 1964, he developed a neurological condition that turned his career on its head. Focal dystonia, which Fleisher later attributed to seven or eight hours a day of practicing, meant he could no longer play with his right hand. Fleisher would eventually regain the use of his right hand in the 90s. In the interim, he became of champion of playing one-handed.
"Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt (ts) Ray Bryant (p) Tommy Bryant (b) Charlie Persip (d). The composer, Avery Parrish, had a rough life. Born in Birmingham, he joined the Erskine Hawkins band. Soon after, in his late 20's, he was involved in a car accident traveling between gigs with some other band mates.. He was injured, and the crash killed Marcellus Green, one of Hawkins's trumpeters. He left the band & went to LA. St 26, he got into a bar fight, hit in the head with a stool. The injuries left him impaired...he could never play piano after that. He ended up in Harlem, living with his mother and working as a porter. He died, circumstances uncertain, but speculation was he fell down a flight of stairs. He 42 years old. -wiki"
Gong are a progressive rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style. The group was formed in Paris in 1967 by Australian musician Daevid Allen and English vocalist Gilli Smyth. -wiki. Click link for more.
"Kay Starr was born Catherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was an Iroquois native American; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and Native American heritage.[2] When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, the family moved to Dallas. Her mother raised chickens, whom Starr serenaded in the coop. Her aunt Nora was impressed by her 7-year-old niece's singing and arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station, WRR. Starr finished 3rd one week in a talent contest, and placed first every week thereafter. She was given a 15-minute radio show. -wiki. I've attached a link to her obituary. "
This the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Sting. On this album, he collaborates with Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov. The album features music by John Dowland (1563–1626), a lutenist and songwriter. It entered the UK Official Albums Chart at number 24 and reached number 25 on the Billboard 200. (see link for more)
"This is from the band's debut album. They're sampling a tune by Wendy Rene released by Stax in 1964`. Some say this created a blueprint for hardcore hip hop during the 1990s, and helped return New York City hip hop to national prominence. 36 chambers? The album's name is a reference the kung fu flick The 36th Chamber of Shaolin from 1978. It is also a reference to Five Perfect philosophy and Supreme Mathematics. The group is made up of nine members and the number nine means _to bring into existence._ Because the Wu-Tang Clan was made of nine members, each of whom has four chambers of the heart, the album was subtitled _36 Chambers_, being the total of the nine hearts of the members. - various. Click link for more. "
_In the past five years, I’ve only been to two Little Wings shows. Not because Field wasn’t playing often, but because I’d only hear about the gigs after they happened. _ Alex Scordelis (Vice) As Little Wings, Field has released over a dozen albums, under the Walking and independent K Records labels. Field is considered by some a cult figure...he's also played with Granddaddy, Lee Baggett, André Herman Dune, Peaches and Devendra Banhart throughout the 2000s. Field’s shows in Southern California were like a Bigfoot sighting. They weren’t advertised, and they took place at unlikely venues: a backyard, a restaurant, a beach bonfire, a sidewalk. He influenced the Real Estate, a Brooklyn based indie rock band, among others. - wiki & Vice. Click link for more.
This is from Smith's 11th studio release. The material on Banga is _inspired by Smith's unique dreams and observations_ and the album's lyrics are _a reflection of our complex world – a world that is rife with chaos and beauty. - wiki.
"The festival began in 1958. McPartland was also a synesthete, associating different musical keys with colours, stating that "The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue."Click link for more
RIP Pharaoh, died 9/17/22, just before this show was originally produced. Sanders' take on “spiritual jazz” was rooted in his inspiration from religious concepts such as Karma and Tawhid, and his rich, meditative performance aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as A Love Supreme. As a result, Sanders was considered to have been a disciple of Coltrane or, as Albert Ayler said, __Trane was the Father, Pharaoh was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost_. In his last interview published by The New Yorker, he was asked if there was any recording in his vast discography that truly satisfied him. There was not. “I have a problem,” he said, “with finding the right reeds.” On this date, we hear Pharaoh Sanders, tenor sax, percussion, vocal; Jiggs Chase, organ; Munoz, guitar; Steve Neil, bass; Greg Bandy, drums; Lawrence Killian, percussion. Click link to "in memoriam"
