Author: mick
Nyabinghi Collection
From 2014 a decade ago. The Nyabinghi Collection Keta, Fonde, Buff, Lumina, Keta drums flashing the Red, Gold & Green
Cosmos Ring of Fire/Easter Island
The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon’s shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic….
Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Born in the historic village of Bartonsville in Frederick County, Maryland, United States, Bowie grew up in St…
Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman‘s first records, beginning in 1958. He then freelanced extensively with hard bop and other post-bop players, including Donald Byrd,…
Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990 Pittsburgh, PA) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson…
Flamenco Fridays Camerón
There are two parts to a Fandangos de Huelva, including the estribillo, a rhythmic chordal refrain played on the guitar with or without singing, and the coplas. These two parts alternate, similar to the chorus and verse in a folk song. The Fandangos de Huelva are usually sung aflamencada ( in the flamenco style.) For…
Cosmos NGC 7000
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellationCygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). It is named because its shape resembles North America. On October 24, 1786, William Herschel observing from Slough, England, noted a “faint milky nebulosity scattered over this…
Ed Volker
Ed Volker, aka Zeke (born October 10, 1948) is a singer, songwriter and keyboard player from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a founding member of the legendary New Orleans band, The Radiators. Volker is a prolific songwriter who has written hundreds of songs, including the majority of The Radiators’ original material, as well as many other…
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