Mathieu was born in Cincinnati. His father was Aron M. Mathieu (1907-1996), publisher and founder of Minicam (later retitled Modern Photography) in 1937, editor at Writer's Digest for three decades, and founder of the Writer's Market franchise. His mother was Rosella Feher Mathieu (1906-2008), noted authority on herbs, and author of Herb Grower's Complete Guide (1950), one of the first books in the United States on growing and cooking with herbs. In the late 1950s and early 1960s (as Bill Mathieu), he spent several years as an arranger and composer for Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington orchestras. Kenton's album Standards in Silhouette consists entirely of then 22 year old Mathieu's arrangements. Mathieu now lives in Sebastapol, CA and enjoys sharing his tuning expertise with others, including beginners — and especially those who are convinced they are tone-deaf. “Nobody is tone-deaf,” he claims. He has regularly trained his “Tone-Deaf Choirs” to sing in tune, often in public. - wiki
Recorded in November 1969 at the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. The bulk of the recording consists of a blend of Cherry originals and Turkish folk material arranged by Turkish jazz trumpeter Maffy Falay. The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that, in comparison with Eternal Now, Live Ankara is _closer to the work with Ornette: tight, compressed lines on the cheap little Pakistani pocket trumpet Cherry favoured, and two Ornette themes just to cement the connection._ On Bass – Selçuk Sun, Drums, Percussion – Okay Temiz, Percussion, Tenor Saxophone – Irfan Sümer, Trumpet, Zurna [Trumpet-zürna], Piano, Vocals, Flute, Engineer – Don Cherry -- wiki & liner notes
Dallas born, LA based singer aka Olivia Williams, who has released six projects so far. Her catalog displays the evolution of an artist breaking the rules of genre and style. She counts artists like D’Angelo and Sly and the Family Stone as influences. She wrote the music for this album living at her mothers in St. Louise, working at Urban Outfillers. = Okay Player
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4:08
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Cyndi Lauper ["James Crawford, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson, Barbara Anne Hawkins"]
"aka Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper b 1953 in Brooklyn. This song has been covered by over a hundred artists and was ranked at No. 22 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years and at No. 19 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s. According to the Internet Machine, she's currently on a farewell tour (through Feb 2025) with another project in the offing with Pophouse on a television series, festival, and immersive theater experience" - link for more
"aka Sylvia Sapira (1909-1981) was and American harpsichordist who In 1957 founded the Harpsichord Music Society, Inc. to promote new works for harpsichord and award scholarships for the advanced study of harpsichord and its repertoire. Composers commissioned by the society include Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, Vittorio Rieti and Henri Sauguet. - wiki. I love her work"
"Sangeare is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as _The Songbird of Wassoulou._ When she was 2, her father abandoned the family and she eventually left school to sing in the streets to help support the family. She is now owner of the 30-room Hotel Wassoulou in Mali's capital, Bamako, a haven for musicians and her own regular performing space. _I helped build the hotel myself. I did it to show women that you can make your life better by working. And many more are working these days, forming co-operatives to make soap or clothes._ - wiki"
"Dudley was Wisconsin born & bred, best known, according to Wiki, for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass. He had a 1963 hit, _Six Days on the Road.'_ Dudley died on December 22, 2003, aged 75, after suffering a heart attack in his car in a parking lot in Danbury, Wisconsin."
"Hinze is Dutch. He came to study theory and composition at Berkleeon scholarship in 1969 when he was 31 years old. From there, he started to produce his unique Baroque/Jazz albums 'Telemann my Way', 'Vivat Vivaldi' etc. He also founded the 'Chris Hinze Combination'."
"Hen Ogledd borrowed their band name from the Welsh term for the region between Southern Scotland and Northern England, and the group originally consisted of guitarist/vocalist Richard Dawson and harp improviser Rhodri Davies. They've since expanded"
According to Lionel Batiste Sr., drummer of Treme Brass Band: _Cabbage Alley was around Perdido Street. They had a lot of musicians down there—it was almost like a [red light] district—fast women. Near the battlefield._
"The 80s Cassette Underground was a scene active all across the world with one common thread, cassettes and sound. The scene arose out of the explosive Industrial movement that occured in the 70s with the work of Throbbing Gristle. At the same time out of Minimal Wave came Minimal Synth and the use of analog synthesizers and drum machines. Coupled with the rise of the cassette format and the DIY mentality it all combined into a bustling scene active from the late 70s to the early 90s. Cassettes were swapped at underground shows, mail-order only labels and in small independent record stores. New acts were learned from word of mouth or label backed VA compilations. Due to the limited number of copies per release, mail-order was the most common form of distribution. DIY, Do-It-Yourself was the ethos of the scene and artists and small labels found their own ways to distribute their material. Mass-producing cassettes was signficantly cheaper than producing vinyl and corners were cut wherever they could. Cheap cassettes were purchased inadvertently giving the sound a very lo-fi sound. - RYM (see link)"
Eddie Gómez _ upright bass, Don Alias – drums, Jeremy Steig - Flute. From wiki - Steig utilizes a seemingly endless array of flute techniques, soaring above and interacting with the rhythm section. On several tracks he uses overdubbing effectively, calling and responding to his own lines. The whole album is truly eclectic, spanning funk, exotic ostinatos, blues, Miles Davis' _Nardis,_ and freer excursions ... Legwork remains one of the high points of Steig's recorded work._ Steig's father William is the renowned cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine.
"Peyroux was born in Athens, GA who started her singng career on the streets of Paris as a teenager. Dreamland was her debut release. She's since produced 8 albums, the most recent in 2018. "
"Joe Shulman on bass joins the two greats. Recorded in New York City. Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States.[1] His family soon moved to the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, his mother's family came from Hillsborough, North Carolina, and she sent him there to protect him from his father's drunken sprees. Strayhorn spent many months of his childhood at his grandparents' house in Hillsborough. In an interview, Strayhorn said that his grandmother was his primary influence during the first ten years of his life. He became interested in music while living with her, playing hymns on her piano, and playing records on her Victrola record player. Ellington described him, _Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine._ Strayhorn was openly gay. He died in 1967 at age 51 of esophogeal cancer -- likely brought on by a lifetime of heavy smoking & drinking... He was held in the arms of his partner, Bill Grove, as he passed. = Wiki. "
"Liner notes mention that bassist George Koller plays dilruba, an Indian instrument that looks like a sitar but is played with a violin bow, and sounds exactly as you imagine the combination of these two instruments would". link for more
"Chiweshe (1946-2023) was a Zimbabwean musician known internationally for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She was one of few female players, and learned to play from 1966 to 1969, when other women did not. Her daughter is the mbira player Virginia Mukwesha [fi], whom Chiweshe trained from a young age - wiki"
"Shihab aka Edmund Gregory waws born in 1925 in Savannah, GA. He changed his name when he converted to Islam in 1947. He played baritone saxophone, flute and alto sax, and spent most of his career recording and performing in Europe. While still in the US, Sahib Shihab played with notable jazz legends including Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Fletcher Henderson and Dizzy Gillespie, before joining the Quincy Jones Big Band. = Discogs. THere's a great write up by in Flophousemagazine.com (click link)"
"A recording made in Osaka, 1998, taken from a compilation of field recordings by guitartist Fred Firth on journeys to Japan, Italy, France, the UK, Switzerland, and the USA"
"Doxa Sinistra was a Dutch band from the 80s . Their debut cassette Via Del Latte was published in 1982 by the label Trumpett and was wrapped in a milk carton. This tune was included in their 2nd cassette release, Conveyer-Belt on ADN Tapes label. The group made up of Brian Dommisse, Hanjo Erkamp, Jan Popma, Ruud Kluivers"
