Big Jack Johnson, July 30, 1940-March 14, 2011
Live (Deep Blues, 1992)
“Catfish Blues”
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“Daddy, When Is Mama Coming Home”
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art beat
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
Art Institute of Chicago (through 5/15/11)
Walker Evans, Barbershops, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1936)
Fontella Bass
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Few musicians travel so widely—or so well.
Lester Bowie, trumpet, October 11, 1941-November 8, 1999
Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy (Steve Turre, trombone; Phillip Wilson, drums)
Live, Germany (Berlin), 1986
#1
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#2 (Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love For You”)
Vodpod videos no longer available.Lester and drummer Phillip Wilson were kindred spirits. Like Lester, the drummer came out of St. Louis. And like Lester, he roamed freely. Adventurous jazz (Art Ensemble of Chicago), funky soul (Stax Records sessions), hard-rocking blues (Paul Butterfield Blues Band): to each he brought the same hands, the same feet, the same ears.
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Bill Cosby on Lester Bowie
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