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Bobby Womack

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One of the most enigmatic and talented Soul men of all time, Bobby Womack has been a link from 50s Gospel to 60s Soul to 70s Rock and to some of the greatest musicians in each genre. Born in an extremely devout religious family, he was singing Gospel with his brothers Cecil, Friendly, Harry and Curtis as the Womack Brothers while he was still a child.The talented group was discovered by Gospel/Soul legend Sam Cooke, who renamed them the Valentinos and transformed them into a teenage secular vocal group. By the early 60s The Valentinos were touring with James Brown and scoring on the R&B charts with their first hit, "Lookin' For A Love." Cooke's death in 1964 sent the group on a spiral from which it would never recover

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Article: So You Don't Like Jazz

5 Epic Jazz Songs That Forever Changed the World

Read "5 Epic Jazz Songs That Forever Changed the World" reviewed by Alan Bryson

by Alan Bryson

So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also demonstrated that jazz could be successful in a modern culture dominated by pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues. Arguably the ...

Album

Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025

By Ronnie Wood

Label: BMG
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD 1: You're on My Mind; The Girls Are Naked; Plynth (Water Down the Drain); Flying; Gasoline Alley; Had Me a Real Good Time; Every Picture Tells a Story; Miss Judy's Farm; Stay with Me Too Bad; True Blue; Ooh La La; I Can Feel the Fire; Mystifies Me Far East Man; Breathe on Me; I Can Say She's Alright; Now Look CD 2: Hey Negrita; Just for a Moment; Lost and Lonely; Seven Days; Dance (Pt. 1); Everything Is Turning to Gold; Black Limousine; No Use in Crying; Outlaws; Pretty Beat Up; Somebody Else Might; This Little Heart; Whadd'ya Think; I Gotta See; Thing About You; Why You Wanna Go Do a Thing Like That; Mother of Pearl; A Certain Girl; Take It Easy; You're So Fine.

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Article: Album Review

Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition

Read "Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

There are certain instruments that struggled for attention in the years when the jazz ecology was an overwhelmingly male preserve--or rather, when many men perceived jazz to be a male preserve, and a heterosexual, alpha male one at that. Exhibit A, the flute, was described by one leading male alto saxophonist, a near contemporary of Charlie ...

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Article: Album Review

RAH & The Ruffcats: Orile To Berlin

Read "Orile To Berlin" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Among the many Afrobeat bands which have emerged outside Nigeria since Fela Kuti passed in 1997, some of them first class, only a tiny few have succeeded in getting close to the sheer majesty of sound that Kuti conjured. The honor roll notably includes London's Soothsayers and Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra. Here comes another honoree. Take ...

Article: Profile

Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965

Read "Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Questo lussuoso cofanetto di sei LP in edizione limitata dedicato all'arpista Dorothy Ashby è un importante contributo che colma l'attuale vuoto di registrazioni e rende giustizia a un'artista tanto importante quanto dimenticata. Non troverete il suo nome sulle massime storie ed enciclopedie del jazz, e la sua morte prematura dell'aprile 1986 (aveva 55 anni) fu data ...

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Article: In Pictures

Ancient To The Future: Fatoumata Diawara At Carnegie Hall

Read "Ancient To The Future: Fatoumata Diawara At Carnegie Hall" reviewed by Dave Kaufman

by Dave Kaufman

Fatoumata Diawara was a featured performer at the Journey into Afrofuturism Festival, organized by Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 4. It is a (NY) city-wide festival “where music, visual arts, science fiction, and technology intersect to imagine alternate realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of Black cultures." Chimurenga Renaissance, a Zimbabwean-centered hip-hop collective, ...

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Article: Blues Deluxe

Winter 2022

Read "Winter 2022" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note, spotlighting titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. The Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck: A Tribute to Jimmy Reed Live at the Royal Albert Hall BMG

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Article: Album Review

Emma-Jean Thackray: Yellow

Read "Yellow" reviewed by Jim Trageser

by Jim Trageser

Many of the most prominent exponents of melding jazz with soul, funk and hip-hop have been trumpeters. Even in the late 1970s, Chuck Mangione was already taking soul-jazz and moving it further into an R&B orbit (and taking heat from jazz purists for supposedly “selling out"), and in so doing exposing lots of pop fans to ...

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Article: Film Review

Sam Cooke: Legend

Read "Sam Cooke: Legend" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Sam Cooke Legend Abkco 2021 With a running time of seventy minutes, the documentary on singer/composer/producer Sam Cooke is far shorter than the bonus material included on the DVD of Legend. But in its own way, that's fitting as the late r&b/soul icon's lasting influence, based on his varied career as ...


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