Thought we would get your week going with a fiery performance from our AOM and her rendition of the Ray Charles classic “What I Say”. This is from Etta’s 1964 release Etta James Rocks The House.
Also, checkout this live clip below from the TV show The! Beat! With Etta, Esther Phillips, Lattimore Brown and more…
Posted this a while ago on our FB page but it’s such a good clip that I thought it would be apropos to revive it for our new series. The one and only Billy Preston and his rendition of “Summertime” complete with interpolations of the styles of J.S. Bach and Ray Charles.
Today I wanted to post three of my favorite clips from one of my all time favorite songs. Written by Hoagy Carmichael this song is the definition of a classic composition. Enjoy! (more…)
Christmas time is a time for sharing and giving. But for grandma, she may wanna share something more than her eggnog underneath that mistletoe. So before Grandma shares her stories of opening the “back door” for Santa cause he wanted some lovin’, here’s a few naughty and nice brown liquor songs that may make her feel…..well….. a little moist!
Awwwwwww daaaayyyuuummm, grandma!!!! No you didn’t do it on the dinner table with Santa - we just placed the ham in that spot!!!
Merry Christmas, ya’ll :)
On this weekend when we take time out to honor the men and women who gave their lives in military service to this country, I thought it might be appropriate to pick a few “covers” from the Patriotic Songbook.
Social consciousness, pain, funk, reality, jazz, struggle, lyrics and musicianship at it’s finest. Off the classic Innervisions
A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain’t so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong, moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the cityHis father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And you’d best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the cityDa da da…
Check out covers from Roger Troutman & Zapp, Ray Charles and Ike & Tina after the jump.
Incredible. Trombonist Steve Turre plays shells on the Night Music Program. Also, check out his tribute to Ray Charles, “Brother Ray”, on his latest album, Rainbow People (Highnote/2008).
An excerpt from his bio:
One of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers’ and Critics’ polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band, which began his career-long involvement with that genre.
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