Author: mick

” Mamadou Diabaté is a kora player. He began playing quite early in his life, became known as a musician in the area of Mali in which he lived, and has since moved to the United States, recording five albums.”

Jah Jah Reader Than Dread 3-10-18

Combined image data from the massive, ground-based VISTA telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope was used to create this wide perspective of the interstellar landscape surrounding the famous Horsehead Nebula. Captured at near-infrared wavelengths, the region’s dusty molecular cloud sprawls across the scene that covers an angle about two-thirds the size of the Full Moon…

Zakir Hussain (Hindi: ज़ाकिर हुसैन, Urdu: ذاکِر حُسَین‬‎; born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player in Hindustani classical music, musical producer, film actor and composer. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award…

Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) is an American R&B vocalist, known as “Mr. Personality”, after one of his million-selling hits. His first recording, “Lawdy Miss Clawdy“, was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans…

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930– June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of his 1961 album. His “Broadway Blues” has become a standard and has been…

World Music on Flamenco Fridays with Sabicas. Sabicas (nombre propio: Agustín Castellón Campos) (16 de marzo de 1912 – 14 de abril de 1990) fue un guitarrista flamenco de origen romaní. Sabicas nació en Pamplona, España, y comenzó a tocar la guitarra a la edad de cinco años e hizo su debut en el espectáculo…

Daily Roots with the Meditations 3-9-18

This beautiful telescopic skyscape features spiral galaxy NGC 918. The island universe is about 50,000 light-years across and lies some 60 million light-years away toward the constellation Aries. An artistic presentation, the image shows spiky foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy and convoluted dust clouds that hang hundreds of light-years above our galactic…