Home » Search Center » Results: Memphis Minnie
Results for "Memphis Minnie"
Results for pages tagged "Memphis Minnie"...
Memphis Minnie
Born:
Why has this musician who recorded over two hundred sides and was well-loved by the Black blues audiences of the '30s and '40s been comparatively ignored by later audiences? Perhaps it's because Memphis Minnie doesn't fit the myth of the young, tragic, haunted blues singer and she is too complex of a character to be easily marketed. She shaped a life very different from the limited possibilities offered to the women of her time. She lived a long life, was at her best in middle age, and would spit tobacco wearing a chiffon ball gown. Memphis Minnie's music remained popular over two decades because it was lyrically and instrumentally in tune with the lives of Black Americans
Anais Reno, Kristen R. Bromley, Masha Campagne, Brandee Younger, Sabeth Perez, Svetlana & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Anais Reno, Kristen R. Bromley, Masha Campagne, Brandee Younger, Sabeth Perez and Svetlana, with birthday shoutouts to Beryl Booker, Valaida Snow, Memphis Minnie, Lili Añel, Monnette Sudler, Angela DeNiro, Bobby Sanabria, Ian Shaw and Erica Lindsay, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy ...
New Releases From Jo Harrop, Matthew Whitaker, Jacky Terrasson, Ivana Cuesta, Birthday Shoutouts To Beryl Booker, Memphis Minnie, Dakota Staton & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Jo Harrop, Matthew Whitaker, Jacky Terrasson (feat. Camille Bertault), Ellynne Rey, Ivana Cuesta and Ruth Saphir, with birthday shoutouts to Beryl Booker, Dakota Staton, Memphis Minnie, Jocelyn Gould, Lili Anel, Deanna Kirk, Sylvia Robinson ("Love On A Two Way Street"), Monnette Sudler, Jenny Scheinman, Marty Elkins, and Jonathan Karrant, among ...
Candice Ivory: When The Levee Breaks: The Music Of Memphis Minnie
by Doug Collette
Candice Ivory is more than a little ambitious to conceive and execute an album comprised wholly of material by blues icon Memphis Minnie. But to her credit, she has been quite resourceful in enlisting some formidable resources in the effort: guitarist/bassist Charlie Hunter serves as a player and the album producer, the latter role he also ...
Horace Silver: His Only Mistake Was To Smile
by Chris May
In his sleeve note for the audio restored Horace Silver album Live New York Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022), British writer Brian Morton cut to the chase. “[Silver]'s only mistake," he wrote, “was to smile while he was playing... a challenge to the notion that jazz should be deadly serious and played with a pained rictus."
High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm - Celebrating Foremother Valaida Snow Plus New Releases From Tuba Skinny, Esthesis Quartet & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from Tuba Skinny, Esthesis Quartet (featuring Elsa Nilsson, Tina Raymond, Dawn Clement and Emma Dayhuff , Randy Napoleon and As Is with birthday shoutouts to trumpeter Valaida Snow, guitarist Memphis Minnie, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, vocalists Dakota Staton, Ann Hampton Callaway, Ian Shaw, and Amanda Eckery, among others. Thanks for listening and ...
Sass Jordan & Dana Fuchs: Two Chanteuses' Blues
by Doug Collette
When performed with style, grace and depth of feeling, singing the blues is a wonder to behold. But when such virtues are replaced by histrionics, affectation and musical self-indulgence, the performers and the performances fall flat. In building their respective careers of no little renown, Sass Jordan and Dana Fuchs have both proven they can deliver ...
Celebrating Jazz Geminis Valaida Snow and Memphis Minnie Among Others
by Mary Foster Conklin
The first hour celebrates the birthdays of Valaida Snow, known as “Little Louis" and “Queen of the Trumpet," a nickname given to her by W.C. Handy — a virtuoso jazz entertainer who became an internationally celebrated talent. Also in the spotlight is Memphis Minnie, a blues guitarist, and songwriter married to Joe McCoy and later Ernest ...
You Reap Just What You Sow - New Releases to Benefit the Jazz Foundation
by Mary Foster Conklin
This week we feature music that is trying to raise funds to support the Jazz Foundation, by Catherine Russell and the Fred Hersch—Esperanza Spalding duo. We also focus on new releases from Sue Maskaleris, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Alexa Tarantino, W. Allen Taylor, Swingadelic, John Finbury and Magos Herrera, with birthday shoutouts to trumpeter Valaida Snow, guitarist Memphis ...
Turn The Hose on Me Boys, I'm Burnin' Up Again
by Mary Foster Conklin
This week the playlist includes new releases from vocalists Rebecca Dumaine, Chanda Rule, Amanda Ekery, harpist Brandee Younger, the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, clarinetist Anat Cohen and The Hot Sardines, with birthday shout outs to guitarist Memphis Minnie, trumpeter Valaida Snow, vocalists Dakota Staton, Boz Scaggs, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, and pianists Hazel Scott and Mala Waldron, ...
