Author: mick

Yemaya from Cuba

Prophecy Call 3-28-18

RHYTHM ROOTS WORKSHOP Tuesday March 27th, 2018 noon-2pm Partnership Resources Inc St Louis Park Performance Day at 1pm with SHAKE IT UP percussion team featuring Mike, Angie, Bethany and Deion.

Monday, March 26, 2018: A star-forming region in the Milky Way resembles a Van Gogh painting in this stellar view from the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory. The image reveals a web of gas filaments, which astronomers believe are responsible for creating new stars. This region is located 7,500 light-years away in the neighborhood…

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer. She has been described by music critic Scott Yanow as having “one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century.” Nicknamed “Sassy” and “The Divine One“, Vaughan was a four-time Grammy Award winner, including a “Lifetime Achievement Award”. The…

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he is considered one of the three most important “swing tenors” along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as “The Brute” or “Frog”, he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps…

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for “How Long, How Long Blues“, released by Vocalion Records in 1928. Carr…

Traditional Kumina drumming in the mountains of Portland Jamaica. Recorded during the January 2011 trip of the Jamaica Field Service Project.

When Jah Come 3-27-18

Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured here is one of the densest clusters known – it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars – just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. Although nearby when compared to most other clusters,…