Porter also wears his “jazz hat” wherever, whenever.I saw Komasi at a local music festival here in Minneapolis. It was at least 95 degrees that day and he still had a tweed stocking hat on
Payn's Ponderings Black History Month Music Edition
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payn
Legend
2/7 Billie Holiday
One of the very first Jazz singers I got into. Being in the cold dead heart of a Minneapolis winter, I'll look to this bluesy tune for some feelin.
One of the very first Jazz singers I got into. Being in the cold dead heart of a Minneapolis winter, I'll look to this bluesy tune for some feelin.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
I first encountered them opening up for Blood Red Shoes in Boston seven or eight years ago. Had no idea who they were and they positively knocked my socks off.
Sepulchrave II
Hero
Still prefer this to Coolio's reimagining:
payn
Legend
2/8 Childish Gambino
Ok, so this is going to be a fun one. Donald Glover has turned out to be an amazing musician. Just real clever use of effects and writing in his songs. Here is a little live studio take for your enjoyment.
Curious about how he chose the name? Why he used the Wu Tang name generator of course. Mine turned out to be Mastermind Pestering. What is yours?
Ok, so this is going to be a fun one. Donald Glover has turned out to be an amazing musician. Just real clever use of effects and writing in his songs. Here is a little live studio take for your enjoyment.
Curious about how he chose the name? Why he used the Wu Tang name generator of course. Mine turned out to be Mastermind Pestering. What is yours?
payn
Legend
Sampling has become a culture all its own. Some folks find it divisive, but really music has a long history of artist using, borrowing, and stealing from one another. I can be picky myself, but I'll drop a couple for y'all. The first is one is from Nas for all the metal heads around here, the second is for the great Biz Markie who passed too soon.
Bedrockgames
Legend
Just want to say, Hendrix is someone, that anyone with interest in rock or heavy metal (and other music as well of course) should listen to and learn the importance of. I think because he is so associated with the 60s, people that cut their teeth on the music that was influenced by him, don't always develop a full appreciation for his significance. He is one of those dividing lines when it comes to guitar history. There is guitar prior to Hendrix and guitar after him (similar to how there is guitar before Eddie Van Halen and after). And so many guitarists were influenced by him. My favorite player has long been Dave Murray from Iron Maiden and he frequently mentions, in very specific ways, how Hendrix influenced his playing.
For me, the thing I always took from Hendrix was the way he blended melodies and chords. In a song like Little Wing for example.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
This is a hard call, but probably my top track from Songs in the Key of Life is...
Sepulchrave II
Hero
Belting voice of Levi Stubbs
dragoner
solisrpg.com
I took it out, I suppose you mean the intro? Yes, it should make people uncomfortable, people using words like that made me uncomfortable when we moved to the US, Texas, and I was not off the plane minutes before hearing it, and for years later, hearing words like that used as a nouns, verb, and adjectives ... mind that where I came from, words like that were illegal.
Yep. But please- put up another one of his songs! He’s definitely part of this conversation!
dragoner
solisrpg.com
something extra - the fact Donna Summer brought Giorgio Moroder over to America, is considered the elemental beginnings of American Electronica edit warning flashing lights
Sepulchrave II
Hero
I Feel Love changed music forever.
