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Post by kerouac2 on May 6, 2020 18:48:49 GMT
Funny, I just saw that Florian Schneider is the #1 trending topic on French Twitter, which is something that I would never have expected for a mostly forgotten German musician.
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Post by casimira on May 9, 2020 15:54:56 GMT
Little Richard, pioneer of Rock N Roll, Age 87, cancer related.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 9, 2020 16:57:42 GMT
No!!!!
Well, that was inevitable one way or another, but gosh -- a seminal genius of rock and roll.
This says 1958, but I suspect from many clues in the video that it's from later. No matter ~
Much later, but he still has the stuff ~
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Post by bixaorellana on May 9, 2020 17:04:00 GMT
Double fabulosity because you get to watch one major great watching another one ~
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Post by Kimby on May 9, 2020 17:06:30 GMT
Little Richard, pioneer of Rock N Roll, Age 87, cancer related. Boston Globe says this: BREAKING NEWS ALERT Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87. Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard's, told The Associated Press that Little Richard died Saturday morning. Minson said he also spoke to Little Richard’s son and brother. Minson added that the family is not releasing the cause of death.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 9, 2020 17:31:46 GMT
He was amazing.
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Post by lagatta on May 9, 2020 18:00:47 GMT
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Post by questa on May 9, 2020 23:51:43 GMT
"There will never, ever, ever, be another Little Richard." Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Jerry Lee Lewis and other friends and admirers offer tributes to the rock pioneer who has died at 87. Elton John called Richard his biggest influence.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 10, 2020 0:03:48 GMT
Interesting article, LaGatta, and a look into a culture I know nothing about.
Since I only know how to say Let the good times roll in English and what is undoubtedly mangled French, I looked up the Portuguese version. If Google Translate is accurate, it's similar to French ~ Deixe os bons tempos rolarem.
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Post by lagatta on May 10, 2020 0:34:55 GMT
Well, I have a close friend who is Brazilian (but lives in Paris - and his wife is Greek). You can see similarities with NOLA and Caribbean celebrations though.
While obviously people are mortal, these losses seem very poignant now. And I can certainly see Elton John channelling Little Richard, look at that wild pomadour!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 10, 2020 0:58:07 GMT
Yeah, that first picture in your link is so completely reminiscent of Mardi Gras Indians.
It's a real shame that the recording quality of this is so bad, but it's so perfectly appropriate ~
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Post by Kimby on May 10, 2020 18:51:47 GMT
Miami funk vocalist Betty Wright has died. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/arts/music/betty-wright-dead.html“Betty can lay greater claim to being the voice of ‘every woman’ than, say, Chaka or Aretha,” Nick Coleman wrote, reviewing the album for the British newspaper The Independent, referring to Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin. James Reed, in The Boston Globe, called it “smart, probing R&B for grown-ups,” and an extension of “the fierce, funky sound that made Wright so irresistible in the 1970s.”
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Post by lagatta on May 10, 2020 22:29:52 GMT
As for the Mardi Gras Indians, yes, it is the same story, as many enslaved Africans in Brazil were welcomed as fellow human beings by Indigenous communities. One of the reasons so many Brazilians are at least tri-racial. And now they have a white supremacist of all things as President.
I'll try to find some more detailed accounts, but I can't possibly conserve everything I studied at university... We didn't have the same computer storage systems (though my graduate studies were done in the early personal computer epoch). I can look them up, but that is ... work.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 22, 2020 13:18:40 GMT
Guinean world music star Mory Kanté has died.
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Post by lagatta on May 22, 2020 21:46:23 GMT
Such a horrible loss of veteran African musicians who have reinvented musical genres. Music that can be party music and also much deeper.
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Post by whatagain on May 23, 2020 4:33:34 GMT
It didnt ring a bell. Then i heard omit in the radio and they would play his planetar hit. I recognised it. Just a fraction of time later i switched radiostation. I have never been able to listen to it.
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2020 17:40:03 GMT
Jimmy Cobb, a jazz drummer whose propulsive ride cymbal imbued countless classic recordings with a quiet intensity, including Miles Davis’s epochal album “Kind of Blue,” died of lung cancer on Sunday in Harlem. He was 91.
From Wikipedia: The ride cymbal is a standard cymbal in most drum kits. It maintains a steady rhythmic pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than the accent of a crash. It is normally placed on the extreme right (or dominant hand) of a drum set, above the floor tom.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2020 18:01:59 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jun 18, 2020 9:20:56 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 18, 2020 11:14:49 GMT
We won't meet again.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 18, 2020 11:52:34 GMT
I'm pleased that the NYT article commended Gabriel Bacquier's immaculate diction. Often I have trouble understanding opera singers, whichever language they are singing in.
And one got the impression that Vera Lynn would live forever...
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 18, 2020 15:22:15 GMT
But it's a lovely day tomorrow.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2020 15:39:08 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jun 19, 2020 13:26:51 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 19, 2020 19:43:10 GMT
Coincidentally, in the last month or so, one of our archive TV channels ran some of the movies she made at the time. As movies, they weren't much more than pegs to hang her songs on: but what struck me was the difference between the singing and the acting bits. The songs she was best known for were fairly sentimental ballads delivered with rather obviously careful elocution and trained singing performance: but the character that came across in the straight acting bits was much more lively and natural - the sensible big sister who squares her shoulders and just gets on with things without a fuss. And that seemed to be entirely genuine. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 24, 2020 12:09:21 GMT
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Post by casimira on Jun 24, 2020 12:25:22 GMT
My word!!! What was that??? I think you may well have pegged that correctly Patrick. She does seem to be having fun and the outfit she's wearing is outrageous! (She has a Carnival tri-colored boa on to boot!).
Never heard of her.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2020 13:02:06 GMT
She was the out of tune singer on the Clive James show.
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Post by casimira on Jun 24, 2020 13:25:55 GMT
Never heard of Clive James either...
We are clearly culturally deprived in this side of "the pond".
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 24, 2020 16:40:22 GMT
He was a remarkable man: poet, litérateur travel writer, TV critic and wit,and also made a wide range of TV programmes himself, including travelogues, chat shows and documentaries, both serious and hilarious, especially when exploring other countries' TV oddities (hence La Pracatan). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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