Dry Bones Blues Competition XI Sunday June 15th, 2014 Minnesota Music Cafe 499 Payne Avenue, (2)
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Anita ‘Day, referred to as the Jezebel of Jazz,” was an American jazz singer who was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics. She shattered the image of the lady singer” by refusing to pander to the stereotype and presenting herself as a hip” jazz musician. She was a pioneer in bebop and cited Martha Raye as a major affect. Her first huge hit was ‘Let Me Off Uptown,” a novelty duet with Roy Eldridge.
Till then, Fred McDowell played guitar only for himself and his pals. He performed outdated type blues. Delta blues. Mississippi blues. When Alan Lomax got here back by means of the deep south in 1959 in search of bluesmen that other archivists had neglected in earlier visits, he was astonished to search out Mississippi Fred McDowell living in Como and pumping gasoline.
Free-spirited Jimi poured his creativity and depth into playing a proper-handed Fender Stratocaster with his left hand. Jimi was a gifted, self-taught, shy, but daring, lefty guitarist who experimented and perfected distinctive sound techniques like no player earlier than him, particularly the use of feedback. I really like Neil Younger’s quote There was no one on the same planet.” Till as we speak Jimi stays …
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