Yasiin Bey on stage with Black Star ( more by Zach Pollach ) Yasiin says: I hope everyone will have a great 2012! Alot of things to look forward too. Especially when BlackStar will be getting out their album/Mixtape out and a new G.O.O.D music compilation album coming out spring. Let it be a Yasiin Bey year! One of the world's most influential muslims Yasiin Bey ( fka Mos Def ) will start the Yasiin Bey year by helping pay tribute to the late Gil-Scott [...]
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CLICK PICTURE TO VIEW FLYER I already knew this event is definitely special, but now seeing that Okayplayer gave their co-sign , there's definitely more than enough reasons for you to NOT miss this special show! This Jill Newman installment is dedicated to the late Gil Scott-Heron & the legendary jazz singer, Jimmy Scott ! There will be special guests at this event who will be performing, and Yasiin Bey (pka Mos Def ) will be doing a tribute to the legendary and prolific poet! There's waaay [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, [...]
There are so many shows to recommend tonight my recommending muscles are tired: ► It's not often a guy who's won a Kennedy Center Living Legend Award visits the Echoplex, so tonight's show with Jimmy Scott ought to be special. With a career spanning more than six decades, the 85-year-old vocalist has performed with most of jazz's greats, crossed over and worked with pop and rock standouts and has the distinction of having sung at two presidential inaugurations — 40 years apart (Eisenhower and Clinton). ► Daniel Johnston plays [...]
Iceage Play (at least) A Couple Of Shows This Week Bummed I skipped Seun Kuti. I heard it was rad. Monday 7/18/11 [Pick of the Night] Crystal Antlers / Tijuana Panthers / Jeffertitti's Nile / The Allah Lah's @ The Echo (Free) – Crystal Antlers is an intense live band. [Recommended] Todd Rundgren @ Grammy Museum (Sold Out) [Recommended] Races / Electric Guest / [...]
Pains of Being Pure at Heart Return to El Rey in October Some particularly tasty nugs in Bold The Music Box 9/14/11: Peter Hook & the Light perform Joy Division's "Closer" (Saturday at 10 AM) 9/16/11: Peter Hook & the Light perform Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" (Saturday at 10 AM) 9/27/11: Kaiser Chiefs (now) 9/29/11: Gillian Welch (Friday at 10 AM) 10/16/11: Amon Tobin (Saturday at 10 AM) [...]
The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars. The band's 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg's 2009 musical [...]
In honor of David Lynch's release on vinyl of his single "Good Day Today" (and our love of all things Lynch), Noise Narcs is posting on the music of, for, and about David Lynch this week. See our intro post (and claim of Lynch as a Philadelphian) here , and see the rest of the DLW posts here . When Special Agent Dale Cooper enters the Waiting Room of the Black Lodge in the final episode of [...]
We've just completed a mix for our friend ZNTN's new project 'How The Other Half Lives'. The idea is that it's a half-hour long unmixed blend of music that you'd listen to outside of a club. Here's our offering. Beat Djs - How The Other Half Lives Mix Tracklist: 1. Cluster - Heisse Lippen 2. The Eyes - When The Night Falls [...]
mp3: Jimmy Scott - Somewhere Down The Line mp3: Jimmy Scott - Everybody Knew But Me Here are a couple of beautiful, albeit beautifully heartbreaking, songs from Jimmy Scott. I was lucky enough to see him at London's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's (no relation), a few years back -- a very special experience. David Lynch is also a fan, which is what brought me to write about him once before . I'm sure most of the Diddy Wah massive are familiar with his work but for everyone else, [...]
Something completely different this time around. There's not going to be any music in this post, so if that's what you're here for, come back another time. I'll do another one of those posts in a couple days. Ever since my days working at a record store, back in the nineties, I've occasionally come up with an idea for an album that I think would be really interesting to create. Once, one of these ideas actually came into existence (someone with real connections apparently had the same idea), and reminded me [...]
Jimmy Scott - Unchained Melody [Todd Duncan] | zs
Aujourd'hui je passe d'un son à l'autre, ce sera une sélection agitée. Nina Hagen - Born in xixas Dirty Projectors - Stilness is the move Autechre - Known 1 Jimmy Scott - Nothing compares to you Alarm Will Sound - Avril 14th Hip-Hop, 1989 EJM - Nous vivons tous 3rd Bass - Gas face [...]
Sure, John Lennon's original is precious in its own right, but as I've stated on these pages in the past, for me the definitive version of "Jealous Guy" is the soul-drenched Donny Hathaway cover off his very much essential 1972 live album. Note: If you've not made that album a part of your [...]
Πολύ περίεργο το σημερινό μας τραγούδι. Ένα δολοφονικό μπάσο στην εισαγωγή, ένα εντελώς Τζεημσμποντικό μοτίβο στη συνέχεια, και μια φωνή.. που θα σε κάνει να ψάξεις αρκετά για να διαψεύσεις την πληροφορία ότι πρόκειται για τη μυστηριώδη κοπέλα της φωτογραφίας, κι όχι για κάποι ον επίδοξο μιμητή αυτής της συγκλονιστικής φωνής [μπορεί να'ναι εντελώς υπερβολική και τραβηγμένη από τα μαλλιά η σύγκριση αλλά είμαι σίγουρος ότι θα απολαύσετε το ανατριχιαστικό απόσπασμα από το φιλμ του Lynch ]. Όλα τα παραπάνω, παρά την έλλειψη ενός πιασάρικου ρεφρέν, θα σε κάνουν να θέλεις να [...]
Jimmy Scott (a.k.a. Little Jimmy Scott, Crying Jimmy Scott) is a living legend. To those who have heard him, he is known as one of the most original and emotional jazz singers in history. Unfortunately, due to some bad record contracts, he went largely unsung for many years. Here's the short version of the story (for the long version you can read his biography, Faith In Time ): He was born in 1925. He has a rare genetic condition, called Kallmann's Syndrome, the result [...]
I have to ask you: is there anyone out there who doesn't dig James Hunter ? Sure, he's singing straight from the Sam Cooke/Ray Charles Hymnal of Southern Soul (with a touch of Jimmy Scott and Van Morrison) but who cares? The cat does it so well. Analog recording, horns deep in the mix, background vocs with character to spare, strings plucked when needed, love and heartbreak intertwined, life as we know it. There are hints of all those soulful influences (and more) but, in the end, it never sounds like anyone but [...]
Jimmy Scott is probably my favorite singer of all time. Described by New York Times Magazine as "Perhaps the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th Century", his story is almost as amazing and heartbreaking as his voice. Born with Kallmann's syndrome a rare genetic disorder which meant he never went through puberty, but which left him with his distinctive voice - The Jimmy Scott story is littered with one bad luck tale after another, until, after years of bad fortune the story takes a turn for the better when he was 'rediscovered' while singing [...]
Yesterday I posted the first song ever played on Twin Peaks. Today I'm posting the last song played on the series. One of the highlights of the series finale was Jimmy Scott performing the David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti composition "Sycamore Trees." Scott had been one of the premier jazz and big band singers during the late forties and fifties, but contractual issues derailed his career in the early sixties. He worked mostly in jobs outside of music for the next three decades. His appearance on Twin Peaks in 1991 was one of the events that [...]
mp3: Nina Simone - Sinnerman mp3: Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring It on Home mp3: Jimmy Scott - Sycamore Trees mp3: Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - Be-Bop-A-Lula mp3: Ketty Lester - Love Letters The other week I was lucky enough to catch a preview screening of the latest, and perhaps most twisted, David Lynch flick, Inland Empire, with the man himself talking and taking questions afterwards. As always, I enjoyed the film and can't wait to see it again [...]
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