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Trunino Lowe: The Vision
by Paul Rauch
You can try and look away. You can try to see the musician as a single entity that grew in the shadow of his native city's historic lineage. Assess the young man's music on its own merits, without drawing comps to the past," would be the objective. But this was the trumpet, and the young man ...
Jim Crow's Tears
By Kris Johnson
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Prologue; Minstrel Theme; Plantation Days; Never Approve; Pearl The
Jezebel; Please Understand; Massa Come Down; Tan That Hide; The Final
Straw; Jim Crow’s Tears; Motherless Child; These Chains; They Still Hate
You; We Can’t Forget Our Past; Unbind My Eyes; No More Coonin’; We
Can’t Live This Way; Modern Day Minstrel Show.
Kris Johnson: Jim Crow's Tears
by James Nadal
The term Jim Crow, reputedly, has its origins in West Africa, based on a Yoruba folk tale of a crow called Jim, who appeared lazy, yet was clever and lucky. This story was brought to America by the enslaved Africans, who embellished it, and turned it into a song and dance routine to take their minds ...