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- The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: Music Lead :: Roomful f Blues
- Henri Salvador dies in Paris at age 90; French crooner credited with…
- Music for a better world
- Soul Deep: The Story f Black Popular Music
- Blues artist returns to his roots
- The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: The Natural
The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: Music Lead :: Roomful f Blues
Cleveland Free Times – Feb 13, 2008
11 just hours after playing a country club gig near Atlanta trumpeter Bob Enos passed away in his sleep at age 60 of a suspected heart attack. Enos was one of the band's longest tenured members – only saxophonist Rich Lataille's service record topped Enos' quarter century – and his tragic death leaves an enormous void in a band that has often described itself as family. "We weren't ready for that one that's for sure" says Roomful guitarist and bandleader Chris Vachon.
Henri Salvador dies in Paris at age 90; French crooner credited with…
International Herald Tribune – Feb 13, 2008
“When you whisper into the mike you are able to transmit real feeling. ” Whether he was singing jazz blues rock 'n' roll or chanson francaise — traditional French pop — feeling was the key ingredient in Salvador's prolific and varied music. Salvador was born July 18 1917 in French Guiana into a middle-class family. His father a municipal tax collector of Spanish descent and his mother a Caribbean Indian both came from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The family moved to Paris when Salvador was 7. He said a cousin played him records by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstong and “I fell in love with their music… “When you whisper into the mike you are able to transmit real feeling. ” Whether he was singing jazz blues rock 'n' roll or chanson francaise — traditional French pop — feeling was the key ingredient in Salvador's prolific and varied music. Salvador was born July 18 1917 in French Guiana into a middle-class family. His father a municipal tax collector of Spanish descent and his mother a Caribbean Indian both came from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The family moved to Paris when Salvador was 7. He said a cousin played him records by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstong and “I fell in love with their music.
Music for a better world
Prague Post – Feb 13, 2008
Since 2003 El Gafla’s combination of optimism and thoughtful introspection has found no shortage of receptive ears on European dance floors. “In Italy Germany Romania France and the Czech Republic it seems people often find a bit of their own culture in our patchwork of music” Chaya says. It’s no wonder as within El Gafla’s upbeat sonic spirals can be found the more universal threads of klezmer and Roma music mixed with hints of jazzy desert blues. n top of all this is El Gafla’s overriding penchant for the urban Maghreb pop music known as chaabi which came to prominence early in the 20th century in cities like Algiers and ran in Chaya’s native Algeria. These days with freedom of expression being violently challenged in Algeria Chaya’s generation finds a safer haven for these ongoing international musical trends in Europe. Speaking of the Menilmontant neighborhood in Paris the place El Gafla now calls home Chaya says “It is a place where there are always people in the streets and the cafés and you can find a lively blend of cultures. The neighborhood is a bit like our band where the musicians are from different cultures — Algerian African and European.
Soul Deep: The Story f Black Popular Music
The Age – Feb 13, 2008
Tracing the genesis of a musical style to some magical startingpoint is a fraught process and any decision will be arbitrary andartificial. Still you’ve got to start somewhere and Ray Charles isas good a place as any. This episode devotes a lot of time to Charles’s childhood andearly career tracing the birth of soul music to the release of his1954 song I’ve Got A Woman which fused gospel with theblues. It was with 1959′s What I’d Say however that soulmusic broke into the mainstream no longer marginalised as “racemusic”. Also looking at Louis Jordan Fats Domino and James Brown thisepisode features the usual mix of archival footage and interviewswith survivors from the time (although some including Charles andBrown have died since this was made in 2004). [an error occurred while processing this directive].
Blues artist returns to his roots
Republican – MassLive.com – The Republican – MassLive.com – Feb 13, 2008
(His adopted nameoccurred to him in a dream he has said). That photograph and dozens of others are on display in tworooms and a hallway of the museum. There are also albumcovers written histories recorded music and streamingvideo relating to the famous siblings’ lives andcareers. Taj Mahal who was named the “fficial Blues Artist ofthe Commonwealth” in 2006 traces much of his successto the musical grounding he got in Springfield in the 1950sa place where immigration from the Carolinas and theCaribbean created a tremendous diversity of musicalinfluences for a teenager. “It was magic” he recalled. “Music was inthe culture… That photograph and dozens of others are on display in tworooms and a hallway of the museum. There are also albumcovers written histories recorded music and streamingvideo relating to the famous siblings’ lives andcareers. Taj Mahal who was named the “fficial Blues Artist ofthe Commonwealth” in 2006 traces much of his successto the musical grounding he got in Springfield in the 1950sa place where immigration from the Carolinas and theCaribbean created a tremendous diversity of musicalinfluences for a teenager. “It was magic” he recalled. “Music was inthe culture. It was the kid down thestreet playing music on a guitar.
The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: The Natural
Cleveland Free Times – Feb 13, 2008
As a kid his musical memories were built on '80s icons like Prince. At 18 he transitioned into smoking weed and listening to the Beatles. Some more time passed and he found himself lured toward more refined things like pre-British invasion blues artists like Skip Jones or purveyors of "black classical music" like Nina Simone. "There's something about that time" Bondy says. "Where those guys played sometimes there was no PA. People gathered in a room and one person had to move a crowd with his guitar and voice. "Bondy succeeds in this vein by crafting country-blues-inflected songs like his forebears and delivering them with lyrical conviction… "Where those guys played sometimes there was no PA. People gathered in a room and one person had to move a crowd with his guitar and voice. "Bondy succeeds in this vein by crafting country-blues-inflected songs like his forebears and delivering them with lyrical conviction. Protest songs like the title track. Songs about addiction like "Vice Rag.