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Various Artists: The Social Power of Music

Read "The Social Power of Music" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
March 30, 2019

It could be argued that music has been around for as long as humans have walked on Earth. When we are born, one of the first things we do is cry and scream, and to calm babies down, lullabies are sung. As we grow up, music becomes the soundtrack for joy and mourning; the rites of ...

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The Sky Is Blue

By Buddy Bolden

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (1903 original); The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (version 2); The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (version 3); The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (version 4); The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (version 5); The Sky Is Blue and So Am I (version 6); interview.

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Buddy Bolden: The Sky Is Blue

Read "The Sky Is Blue" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 1, 2008

2008 will always be remembered fondly in the world of jazz because it's the year of this music's greatest discovery. Buddy Bolden's only recording is no longer stuff of legend and lore, but a reality. The story of this great find sounds almost fictional: A graduate student at the University of Kansas while helping a local ...

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Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes

By Mary Lou Williams

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: (1)St. Martin De Porres 6:32 (M.L.Williams, A.S. Woods), (2)It Ain't Necessarily So 4:41 (G. & I. Gershwin), (3) The Devil 4:00 (MLW, Ada Moore), (4)Miss D.D. 2:28 (MLW), (5)Anima Christi 2:40 (MLW), (6)A Grand Night for Swinging 2:48 (B. Taylor, (7)My Blue Heaven 3:06 (G.Whiting, W.Donaldson), (8)Dirge Blues 3:21 (MLW), (9) A Fungus A Mungus 2:57 (MLW), (10) Koolbonga 3:21 (MLW), (11) Forty-Five Degree Angle 2:50 (D. Best), (12) Nicole 3:37 (MLW), (13) Chunka Lunka 3:07 (MLW), (14)Praise the Lord 5:55 (MLW)

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Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes

Read "Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes" reviewed by Bob Jacobson

by Bob Jacobson
September 12, 2004

Calling this album mainstream is a bit misleading, since it includes four pieces of choral/sacred music and one avant-garde cut. In a way, it's the perfect mirror of where Mary Lou Williams was in the early 1960's, coming out of a nearly ten year absence from performance. At the beginning of that period she had devoted ...

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Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City

By Badenya

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Fakoli; Jigiya; Kinzan; Nanfullen; Janjon; Sidi Yellah; Sori Kemedon; Keme Burema; Allah L'A Ke; Diniya; Djiu De Galinha.

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Badenya: Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City

Read "Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2002

Let's get the facts straight up front: no jazz here. Why bother to review the music, then? Because it's good. Progressive jazz musicians have long appreciated the musical traditions of Africa, especially West Africa, and especially as they relate to percussion. During the '60s, jazz drummers began to assimilate instruments played with the hands, not with ...

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Mississippi Delta Bluesman

By David Honeyboy Edwards

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2001

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The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos

By James P. Johnson

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Liza; Aunt Hager?s Blues; Sweet Lorraine; Jersey Sweet; Yamekraw-A Negro Rhapsody; Daintiness Rag; The Dream; The Dream (alternate); Blue Moods; Keep Movin?; Woman Blues; Jazzamine Concerto; St. Louis Blues; Jungle Drums; Blue Moods, Sex; Euphonic Sounds; Twilight Rag; Snowy Morning Blues; Snowy Morning Blues (alternate); Blues for Jimmy. (73:44)

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James P. Johnson: The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos

by Mike Neely
December 1, 2001

The Original James P. Johnson goes a long way toward summing up the early history of jazz piano. The early jazz singer Ethel Waters stated, “ All the hits you hear, now as then, originated with musicians like James P. Johnson . . . the rest of the hot piano boys . . . just followers ...