"Beaucarne was one of Belgian/American cellist Helen Gillet's father's favorite poets (see later in the playlist) & influenced her returning in later years to the french chanson that figures prominently into her repertoire. The start of this verse translates: _When we were gathered at the table And the soup tureen was smoking, Mom sometimes said: Stop drinking and talking for a moment...its to make you think of happiness...this is happiness... _"
Carper had been performing for 40 years before releasing her first album in 2021 (this one) at age 50. She is a star on the Queer Country, and all-round-regular Country circuit. See link for more in depth, Rolling Stone, look her life & music. She and her partner Rebecca Patek (fiddle and guitar) met in Austin TX some years ago and now form a group called Buffalo Gals.
"Theme song for The First Lady, a series written by Aaron Cooley and directed by Susanne Bier, which narrates the lives of three American first ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama."
Silvia Bolognesi is an Italian double bass player, composer and arranger. Graduated in double bass at the R. Franci Institute of Siena with M°Andrea Granai, perfecting with M°Alberto Bocini, she approached jazz studying at the Siena Jazz Accademy with Paolino dalla Porta, Furio di Castri and Ferruccio Spinetti. She's release 10 albums in the past 18 years, including, in 2012, a set with Tomeka Reid and Mazz Swift.
"Graduate of Eastman and former clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a regular substitute in the clarinet section of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He has been a student of Stanley Hasty, Frank Kowalsky, and Eric Mandat. - wiki"
"With Jimmie Haskell & Shorty Rogers off of Gentry 2nd studio release. It's a concept album based on modern life in the Deep South. Gentry wrote eight of the album's 12 tracks, which detail her Mississippi childhood and includes vignettes of home and church life -- wiki He's also a prolific composer and an educator. "
"THis is a cut from her debut release. Gillet began studying cello when she was 9 living in Singapore. Her teacher, Irmina Ilano (sp?) began instruction by having Gillet hug her cello for one month before starting to play it. Thanks to listener Jon Garelick for turning me on to her. See lnk for Jon's 2019 profile of Gillet. From bandcamp - Belgian-born Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist focusing on the worlds of electronic sound and acoustic cello. She moved to New Orleans in 2002, where she has developed an eclectic palette of experimental, jazz, folk, funk, pop and classical."
"This is a traditional Catalan Christmas song and lullaby. It tells of nature's joy at learning of the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem. The song was made famous outside Catalonia by Pau Casals' instrumental version on the cello, including this White House performance at the invitation of Jacqueline Kennedy (see link). After his exile in 1939, he would begin each of his concerts by playing this song. For this reason, it is often considered a symbol of Catalonia. Pianist is Mieczys_aw Horszowski. When Casals, then 93, was asked why he continued to practice the cello three hours a day, Casals replied, “I’m beginning to notice some improvement.”
"Dylan included this song in his 1963 release, _Freewheelin' Bob_. He's quoted in the liner notes: _Hard Rain is a desperate kind of song._ It was written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the impossible results of the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. Dylan continues, _Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one. _ "
"Her name was Argyro-Nicoleta Tsapra (1945-2017), born and died in Athens. She published her first album of her own compositions (Arleta sings) in 1966 and became one of the leading figures of the Greek New Wave during the 1960 - wiki"
"Saxophonist of Austrian origin, Muriel Grossmann, is certainly a rising star of European free jazz. She offers us today a trio with guitarist Radomir Milojkovic and bassist Chema Pellico. Free jazz, of course, but turned away from energy breaking into introspective chants, taking shape with the will of free time. - bandcamp"
"She's the daughter of Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar, half-sister of Norah Jones and Shubhendra Shankar. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father and is now one of the foremost performers in that tradition."
"It is the band's fourth British and sixth American studio album, and closely follows a series of international hit singles that helped bring the Stones newfound wealth and fame rivalling that of their contemporaries the Beatles. Aftermath is considered by music scholars to be an artistic breakthrough for the Rolling Stones. It is their first album to consist entirely of original compositions, all of which were credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Brian Jones experimented with instruments not usually associated with rock music, including the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, Japanese koto and marimbas, as well as playing guitar and harmonica. -- Youtube "
It was in the sleepy Manchester suburb of Oldham in Lancashire that Annie picked up the trombone at school and hashed it out as a performer, working as a musician for various brass bands and dance teams. - Fondsound.com The recordings were mainly improvised in a Berlin studio over five days of sessions.
