Author: mick

World Music with Mehmet Polat from Turkey

Daily Roots with Jimmy Cliff 2-4-18

The Cosmos with NGC 100 NGC 100 is a galaxy located approximately 60 million light-years from the Solar System[2] in the constellation Pisces. It has an apparent magnitude of 13.2. It is located at RA 24min 2.6s, Dec +16°29’11”. It was first discovered on 10 November 1885 by American astronomer Lewis Swift. Distance 38 MLY.

Melaine Day Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits “Brand New Key“, “Ruby Tuesday“, “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma”, and her song about performing at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)“. Melanie…

Bobby Durham Day Bobby Durham (February 3, 1937 – July 6, 2008) was an American jazz drummer. Durham was born in Philadelphia and learned to play drums while a child. He played with The Orioles at age 16, and was in a military band between 1956 and 1959. After his discharge he played with King…

Johnny Guitar Watson Day John Watson Jr. (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996), known professionally as Johnny “Guitar” Watson, was an American blues, soul, and funkmusician and singer-songwriter. A flamboyant showman and electric guitarist in the style of T-Bone Walker, Watson recorded throughout the 1950s and 1960s with some success. His creative reinvention in…

Lil Hardin Armstrong Day Lil Hardin Armstrong (February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s. Her compositions include “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue”, “Don’t Jive Me”, “Two Deuces”, “Knee Drops”, “Doin’…

Kid Valentine Day Thomas Valentine, commonly known as Kid Thomas (3 February 1896 – 18 June 1987) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. He gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man in the early 1920s. Starting in 1926…

World Music with Dally Kimoko from Zaire/Congo

Daily Roots with Roland Alphonso 2-3-18