Category Archives: Music

Ernie Barnes * Color & Music In His Art

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Sandy

Noticed the abundance of college football on TV this past weekend. Twitter was full of clips of HBCU Marching groups, with their fancy Drum Majors,  smiling Cheer leaders & high stepping bands. Watching them reminds me of the image above. … Continue reading →

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Luther Vandross – “So Amazing”

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Sandy

Listened again to “The Ultimate Luther Vandross“. It contains great classics from the 80’s and 90’s that are still staples of “soul”, “smooth listening” radio stations around the country: “A House Is Not A Home”, “Power of Love”, “Here and … Continue reading →

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Barbra!

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Sandy

A few years ago, Ms Streisand was all over PBS with her show “Barbra Streisand: One Night Only At the Village Vanguard”.  She can still touch people with her voice and it was fun to listen and watch her wrap … Continue reading →

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Motown’s “Funk Brothers” on DVD

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Sandy

“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day…” The opening bass line that precedes the above lyric to the “Temptations” song “My Girl”, is instantly recognizable, instantly evoking a time/ place/age gone but still very much alive when the music plays. … Continue reading →

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CD Corner: Luther Vandross

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Sandy

Listened again to “The Ultimate Luther Vandross“. It contains great classics from the 80’s and 90’s that are still staples of “soul”, “smooth listening” radio stations around the country: “A House Is Not A Home”, “Power of Love”, “Here and … Continue reading →

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Luther Vandross Revisited!

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Sandy

Listened again to “The Ultimate Luther Vandross“. It contains great classics from the 80’s and 90’s that are still staples of “soul”,  and “smooth listening” radio stations around the country: “A House Is Not A Home”, “Power of Love”, “Here … Continue reading →

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Brian Stokes Mitchell – Like Him!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Sandy

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific”  is running on PBS again during their pledge weeks. Its not the Mary Martin film of 1950’s, but a musical done “in concert”, (all in character and full voice w/o sets), at Carnegie … Continue reading →

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Michael Jackson

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Sandy

“This Is It” is the documentary released in DVD that captured the final days of the “King of Pop” as he prepared for a concert tour in 2009. I’ll be honest, I began to watch with some hesitation – Is … Continue reading →

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Lura * Music of Cape Verde

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Sandy

Lura sings the music of Cape Verde, an island off the west coast of Africa which declared independence from Portugal in 1975. Singing both in Portuguese, and in the language of her small country, she mixes some of the musical … Continue reading →

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“Fela!” * Loved It!

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Sandy

This might be a totally “African Diaspora” type of thing, but you know how your shoulders start to go up and down whenever you hear drums? Well, imagine an entire audience bouncing their shoulders in time with the music/drums of” … Continue reading →

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