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April • Bernard Seigal (Buddy Blue - "Beat Farmers") • Martin Gilks (drummer w/"The Wonder Stuff") • Gene Pitney • Allan Kaprow (Fluxus artist) • June Pointer ("The Pointer Sisters") • Phil Walden (founder of Capricorn Records) • William Gottlieb • Bonnie Owens (singer/ex-wife of Merle Haggard who helped define his sound - she died 30 days after the death of her first husband, Buck Owens) • Helen Hobbs Jordan (music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon) • Leighton Kerner (classical music critic for The Village Voice) May • Johnny Paris ("Johnny and the Hurricanes") • Rosita Fernandez (Tejano singer) • Naushad Ali (Bollywood composer) • Grant McLennan (lead singer for "The Go-Betweens") • John Hicks • Johnnie Wilder, Jr. (founder of the band "Heatwave" - "Boogie Nights") • Lew Anderson (bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show") • Cheikha Rimitti (famous Algerian rai singer - collaborations with Robert Fripp and Flea from the "Red Hot Chili Peppers") • Freddie Garrity ("Freddie and the Dreamers") • Billy Walker (country music singer - "The Tall Texan") • Jack Fallon (jazz double-bassist - Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Sarah Vaughan, et al.) • Hamza El Din • Clifford Antone (owner of Antone's blues club) • Desmond Dekker • Lula Mae Hardaway (Stevie Wonder's mom)

February: • Romano Mussolini (Italian jazz musician and son of Benito) • Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) • Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin (amazing Qawwali singer) • Akira Ifukube (film composer "Godzilla") • Jack Montrose • Elton Dean • Jay Dee (hip-hop producer) • Jockey Shabalala ("Ladysmith Black Mambazo") • Lenny Dee • Putte Wickman (Swedish jazz orch leader) • Lynden David Hall (British soul singer) • Bill Cowsill (lead singer of "The Cowsills") • Ray Barretto • Larry Neill (big band singer: Paul Whiteman) • Anthony Burger (gospel pianist) • Don Knotts (hey, why not...) • Darren McGavin • Thomas Koppel ("Savage Rose") • Tsakani Mhinga (South African R&B singer) • Milton Katims (conductor: Seattle Symphony) March: • Johnny Jackson ("Jackson 5") • Willie Kent (blues bassist) • Charlie Hodge (guitarist/backup singer for Elvis) • Ivor Cutler • King Floyd • Ali Farka Touré • Jesse "Guitar" Taylor • Gordon Parks • Raphe Malik • Anna Moffo • Narvin Kimball (banjo player - founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band) • Lumumba Carson (Professor X: "X-Clan") • Pío Leyva (Buena Vista Social Club) • Buck Owens • Nikki Sudden • Stanislaw Lem • Don Alias • Jackie McLean

Numero Group stuff gets lots of rodcast play!

These were just in January of this year: • Alex St. Clair (guitarist with Beefheart - "Owed t' Alex") • Lou Rawls • Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon of Jam & Spoon) • Bob Weinstock (Prestige) • Wilson Pickett • Rick van der Linden (keyboardist with Ekseption) • Sherman Ferguson • Janette Carter (Carter Family) • Gene McFadden (McFadden & Whitehead) • Nam-June Paik • Coretta Scott King (not really a recording artist, but it's nice to remember her).

Hope you have miles and miles of smiles on your b-day!

Jeremy Taylor did the Joburg Talkin' Blues with Ag Pleez Daddy on a 7". There's an EP too that adds a couple of extras.

I don't think it comes up that often. MG might have a different perspective. I didn't begin listening until The Promise of a Future (Masekela) and/or probably Miram Makeba was played at home too.

Yup! It's kinda from the "addendum" to the originally conceived list - too much of a good thing... You can decide for yourself (as "best of's" go, you understand): the extras The first 100 (or so)

Yeah, it's one of those "100 Records That Set the World On Fire" "Various Artists Ice Cream And Suckers (Mercury 1963) At the same time that more respectable South African musicians like Dollar Brand, Miriam Makeba, and The Blue Notes were thinking about making tracks to Europe, the rural township musicians on Ice Cream And Suckers watched their music leap the ocean to become one of the first exports to America. . . if they were informed at all. Using Western instruments - harmonicas, chunky saxophone, lots of guitar - the patterns of the highlife dancehall were underlined in funky bass and drawn above with cascading harmonies. In this collection of singles, each group has a strong presence that comes from the hybrid of soul and mbube. The place where cultures collide can form greatness, like the birth of rocksteady in Jamaica, but a clash is not easy when you're trapped in it. When "Mr Bull" (Freddie Gumbi) yelled "You bloody bastard, get out of my yard!" over the goofy sound effects of a distressed steer, you wonder what he really meant. An almost painfully happy record, Ice Cream And Suckers yields a fascinating and suspiciously sunny picture in a brutal period of history."

Jeez. It's got everything - Evil Zionist Slave Queen, oppressed masses, cheesy effects, golden hero, midget advisor, evil scientists, reactor meltdown, a spaceship, and something resembling martial arts. A bit longish (12 1/2 minute) clip, with subtitles. Quite a gift to rational religious dialog. http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1329

The next Shirin Neshat film.

filesharing: not just for pirates

Same here!

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=31312&hl=

yeah, man...headed by Carlos Santana's brother and guys in the band like Hadley Caliman and Luis Gasca. good albums.

I honestly don't remember where I was then. My friend of 20 years, composer Jerry Hunt, had passed away exactly one week earlier, so I wasn't in a stable frame-of-mind you might say.

Sorry Joe. It still seems to work for me.

from the film "Before the Music Dies"

news article: http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=24208 nice youtube vid:

Yeah, man! That's a CrAzY low price for 4 discs - especially high quality stuff like this!

Wow! Great story! You said that you found the titles to the LP and pieces, but I'm curious how you did this with just the copy that you had. Thanks for the point to the vids. Looking forward to this documentary.

If you were a tree...

Kwanzaa? --- Now playing: Incredible Bongo Band - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Well, it's more mood lighting Actually, it's a nice arrangement here. Houses on only one side of the street with a creek on the other side. The street dead-ends at a park so there's less concern for cars speeding down the street. the occasional street light can be easily blocked by the large trees depending on where you're located. A nice arboreal hideaway in the city that seems to attract the bohemian elements to our area. A large beautiful lake is nearby too - about a kilometer and a half away. 20K distance to bike around it. OK, back on topic...A request for Esquivel had me getting out much holiday music, so I may be digging into that in the next couple of weeks...

He has a catchy name!