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- Wynton Marsalis Remembering the Duke
- Review | WC Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
- WYEP celebrates 35 years of music that matters
- This weekend it’s Springing the Blues at the beach
Music Review | David Lynch Foundation
New York Times
LaVette fronted Moby’s band bringing soulful fervor to “Natural Blues” a song about “trouble with God. ”But it was also a night for reminiscences of the 1960s and of the Beatles. Crow sang George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” and Mr. Starr spoke about writing “It Don’t Come Easy” with Harrison.
ACM Awards: The performances as they happen
Los Angeles Times
" The most distinctive performance of the night thus far. Looking elegant in a slightly sparkly black dress Womack was understated and a little bit devious — there's moving on and then there's whiskey. With a slight keyboard burn in the background Womack brought a little blues chic to "Solitary Thinking" and she wore it well. Keith Urban's "Kiss a Girl. " ne gets the impression that Urban could write this kind of silly mid-tempo rocker in his sleep. The cameras cut to wife Nicole Kidman and she seems to be digging it.
Wynton Marsalis Remembering the Duke
All About Jazz
Handy the first published composer of the blues and saw how he had come to terms with the contradictory nature of the music despite having been reared in a high-minded churchgoing family. (That’s right: Some people may sit in the first pew at church be the most demonstrative voices in the Amen chorus but love the most secular and low-down music and still be God’s children. ) Duke grasped how a most devout gospel singer like Mahalia Jackson could be influenced by the bawdy and profane blues singing of Bessie Smith. He saw how Louis Armstrong taught others to improvise with a blues feeling and how Armstrong took the blues sound and applied it to harmonic progressions from the classical tradition of Europe making it possible to play the most non-American material with soul and feeling. Ellington appropriated the moans hollers laughs and cries of the blues to form a harmonic concept that was completely original and homegrown.
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Review | WC Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Kansas City Star
During intermission a rustic string band began playing what Handy described as “one of those over and over strains. ” They were playing blues and the audience rewarded them with “a rain of silver dollars. “I returned to Clarksdale and immediately began working on this type of music. ” His first efforts at writing popular music met with little success until he began to incorporate the blue note –– the minor third fifth or seventh within a major key that subtly changed the mood of a particular song.
WYEP celebrates 35 years of music that matters
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“It was come on the air do what you want” Rosenfeld says. “As long as you don’t use the seven words you can’t say on the radio you can be on the air no matter how inane it might be or how great the programming might be. Thus WYEP attracted a colorful crew of enthusiasts devoted to blues or jazz or folk or reggae or polka or any other genre imaginable. “It was like walking into a completely different world” says Bruce Mountjoy who joined the station as a volunteer 31 years ago at the age of 18. “There were all different types of people. We’d have a staff meeting and it would be like a meeting of the United Nations. Chaos often ensued and a lot of times it was self-inflicted.
This weekend it’s Springing the Blues at the beach
Florida Times-Union
Just past halfway through that century I was born and grew up in the Deep South residing in six Southern states in a family that were leaders in the desegregation movement all of which fortunately broadened my exposure. "Early on I loved rock ‘n’ roll music was particularly drawn to Chuck Berry and was interested in where the music came from. I believe it mostly came from the blues. By the end of my teens I was in Memphis. At that time you had to search out blues music. And drawn to its emotion and rhythm I did search it out and found many of the old musicians still playing in Blues Alley where they allowed me to sit in. "Why blues? For me blues is the heart and the soul of all popular music from the mid 20th century on.
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