very good documentary about the Wigan Casino
and the social circumstances involved.very interesting,although
i have some trouble understanding all that is said,but well 50% is something :)
well let's dance (wish i could like that...)
Coltrane documentary (the history of jazz series)
"Merely mention the name John Coltrane and you’re likely to evoke a deeply emotional, often spiritual response from even the most casual jazz fan.
Born September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina, John Coltrane was always surrounded by music. His father played several instruments sparking Coltrane’s study of E-flat horn and clarinet. While in high school, Coltrane’s musical influences shifted to the likes of Lester Young and Johnny Hodges prompting him to switch to alto saxophone. He continued his musical training in Philadelphia at Granoff Studios and the Ornstein School of Music. He was called to military service during WWII, where he performed in the U.S. Navy Band in Hawaii.
After the war, Coltrane began playing tenor saxophone with the Eddie "CleanHead" Vinson Band, and was later quoted as saying, "A wider area of listening opened up for me. There were many things that people like Hawk, and Ben and Tab Smith were doing in the ‘40’s that I didn’t understand, but that I felt emotionally." Prior to joining the Dizzy Gillespie band, Coltrane performed with Jimmy Heath where his passion for experimentation began to take shape. However, it was his work with the Miles Davis Quintet in 1958 that would lead to his own musical evolution. " Miles music gave me plenty of freedom," he once said. During that period, he became known for using the three-on-one chord approach, and what has been called the ‘sheets of sound,’ a method of playing multiple notes at one time..."biography at the offical john coltrane website
oh and even if it's just as a track ... i love to listen to gladys knight singing "midnight train to georgia" what a song! makes me feel all warm fuzzy...
sam the man
(i think a perfect fit for number 100 in the music docu section)
9 years old and he knew he was never going to have a job,
cause he,he was going to be a singer!
and who could not fall in love this voice?!
"when you write a song,just listen to the people talk."
and he was a book worm:
"the more you read the better your writing will be"
and i don't know about the religious things especially on christmas,
but he is right,gospel music just feels so good.
such a heroic and very sad story...
Samuel "Sam" Cook (January 22, 1931–December 11, 1964) was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music.[2][3][4]
Cooke had twenty-nine top-40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964. Major hits like "You Send Me", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World", and "Bring It on Home to Me" are some of his most popular songs. Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career. He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. He also took an active part in the American Civil Rights Movement.[5]
On December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot to death by the manageress of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California at the age of 33. Cooke was drunk and distressed, and the manageress killed Cooke in what was later ruled a justifiable homicide. wiki
A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke, 1963
Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, Allmusic wrote "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists"wiki (6 part docu in a playlist)
Storm Music -- The Story of Gil Scott-Heron BBC FOUR, 11 June 2004 at 9.00pm and BBC TWO, 16 July 2004 at 11.35pm Gil Scott-Heron is the Godfather of rap. His confrontational, no-nonsense street poetry and intelligent song writing skills have inspired the modern Hip-Hop generation and he is arguably one of the most significant musicians and poets in Afro-American history. The programme features contributions from disciples such as Chuck D and Mos Def as well as music from his career stretching back over 20 albums to the early 70s."
nice documentary about the indian queen of bebop! (who also gave her singing voice to countless filmstars.it's quite interesting when she talks about changing her voice for every single one of them,or how she goes about changing hits to suit an indian audience.fascinating!)
"Asha Bhosle[1] (Marathi: आशा भोसले) (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 1000 Bollywood movies[2] and sold many records.[3] She is the sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. Bhosle is considered one of the most versatile South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian Classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, Rabindra Sangeets and Nazrul Geetis. She has sung in over 14 languages including Assamese, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali, Malay and Malayalam. Bhosle is believed to have sung over 12,000 songs. Though her sister, Lata Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records during 1974-1991, for having sung the most songs in the world, reputed sources have introduced concerns to its veracity, claiming that the Guinness counts were exaggerated and Bhosle had recorded more songs than Mangeshkar. Bhosle herself pointed out that she had made the most recordings by any singer - 12,000.[4]"wiki
over here it's very hot today,so i decided to do something to cool down a little: so here's my little christmas gift for you. feel free to download (just click on the picture to get to the larger version)and sent it to anybody,who you think would like it.i made it with a public domain picture from a nice book called "snow queen"c1886.by the way,soon i will open a new site with my own illustrations,links to resources and free giveaways.so come back or subscribe,and you won't miss it :)
the very sad story of this great pianist and singer.
"Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an African-American soul musician. He contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto, Part I" (1970), Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."[1] His collaborations with Roberta Flack scored #1 on the charts and won him the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the duet "Where Is the Love" in 1973. On January 13, 1979, his body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled a suicide."wiki
3 hours jimi hendrix docu.nice! "With the blessings of Jimi's biological family and many of his closest friends, Passport brings the life of Jimi Hendrix to light as never before. From his upbringing in Seattle to his final days in London, JIMI HENDRIX: THE UNCUT STORY goes beyond all previously released documentaries to explore the complete life-story behind the legendary artist. Episode 3: 1967 - 1970 Part three highlights the culmination of Jimi's musical career. It was the peak of the counter-culture era and the world was changing at an incredible pace. Jimi's music and lifestyle were no exception. Here is where we follow Jimi to the height of his creative powers, both in the studio and on the road?only to watch it all come crashing down upon him. Through exclusive interviews, we get the facts behind Jimi's demise and examine the events surrounding his controversial death. But more than that - we come to know the spiritual message behind Jimi's work and celebrate the final stage of his life in music."
somehow i don't like the narrators voice but i like how they talk about his childhood and love for colors...or plucking a one string ukulele...or disarming a radio in search for the music...or his love for science fiction...always reaching,always searching,always curious. and i like a lot when they talk about his childhood in seattle and his elementary school: "we were blessed with diversity.." time watch the other two parts now.good night.
great animation!love the light effects,the shadows and obviously all the old classic illustrations.great! via juxtapoz
"Stefan Nadelman is an award-winning director and animator of short films and commercials. For his collaboration with Ramona Falls, he combined brilliantly dark visuals with spooky animation for an utterly mind-bending result. Trust us, you need to see this."
Gilbert & Jaime"Beto" Hernandez will always be my favourites! "Love and Rockets" was my first love in comics and always will be. i've always been passionate about comics,but i had never encountered such rich and fascinating characters and stories before palomar.immediate addiction...never recovered.ohhh and the beauty of this work!just wonderful.so many years and so many pages and i still get excited if i see one.i think it's the perfect read,superb artwork combined with a superb story full of imagination but real soul and feelings that get you....uuh i am getting sad cause i lost all my comics & records when i decided to just stay over here at beuenos aires. ( hopefully some ! really good ! friends are still preserving some boxes in their cellars for me...but after all these years,i am trying to imagine what it will be like to come back....) how nice would that be : lock yourself in for a weekend with as many love and rockets you can get and read! aaaaahhhh....
but well i found these two galleries of cover scans you should check out: COVERS1 COVERS2
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