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VARIOUS ARTISTS / There Is A Balm In Gilead Mixtape
I don’t remember how I came to do this particular Mixtape but its stylistic breadth and spiritual seriousness is uplifting beyond anything I could have foreseen. Once I got into pulling together...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Sister Cheryl Mixtape
Even though drummers are practically the sine qua non of jazz, a composition by a drummer that becomes a jazz standard is a rare beast. Indeed, some musicians don’t even consider drummers as musicians,...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Stevie Covers Mixtape #5
This is the fifth in a projected eight-part series of Mixtapes covering Stevie Wonder music. I already have eight Mixtapes finished and enough music for one or two more. We’ll see, meanwhile I think...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Skylark Mixtape
“Skylark” was written by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The scuttlebutt is that it took Mercer close to a year to complete the lyrics and that they were written responding to a past...
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AYENTEE / Ayentee Mos Common Thought Mixtape
Hip Hop has not simply changed the music industry—Hip Hop has changed the very definition of “music” and the process of creating music. Back in the late sixties/early seventies (an era some folk...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Appointment In Ghana Mixtape
New York City-born “Jackie Mac,” as John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was popularly known, was a renowned jazz alto saxophonist, composer and educator. Mr. McLean first recorded on...
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HUGH MASEKELA / Soul Covers Mixtape
Hugh Masekela has had an amazing career in music. Louis Armstrong donated a trumpet to a school Masekela attended in South Africa. Who could have known at that time that a gifted young trumpeter was...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Some Day We’ll All Be Free Mixtape
We live on earth, yes, but ultimately we are from outer space and subconsciously long to return to our origins in the stars. Every molecule, every atom originated as star dust. We are not from nothing,...
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ERYKAH BADU / Badu Re-Do Mixtape
This Badu Re-Do Mixtape is a collection of remixes and mash-ups scoured from hours of online trolling trying to come up with a truly amazing array of tunes, most of which folk have heard before in...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / “Old Devil Moon” Mixtape
“Old Devil Moon” was written by Burton Lane (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) for the stage production Finian’s Rainbow and premiered on January 10, 1947. The stage actors released a recording that...
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