posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazz LOUIS JOHNSON (April 13, 1955 – May 21, 2015) FOLLOW UP STORY COMING SOON – Hipster Sanctuary staff
RETRO HIPSTER -SONNY FORTUNE: THANK GOD FOR THAT DAY JOB
posted by CHUCK KOTON, Photo Journalist Contributor “ I was in the learning stage and I was going to jam sessions with guys who became the cats. ” With an auspicious name like Sonny Fortune, could there be any doubt that this man would find success and fulfillment down whatever path he chose to follow in life. Fortune-ately for jazz lovers, he…
NAT “KING” COLE WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE HIM ON THE SCREEN ??
With all the remakes, and first time Bio-pics being produced at an alarming rate, where is the quality to match the numbers that’s’ due out and those yet to be made? MY VOTE is for Nat King Cole, the Man, musician,singer, husband and parent. I want to know when will we see the NAT KING…
HBO BESSIE: MORE B FLAT THAN B NATURAL
posted by R.J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy BESSIE: More B FLAT Than B Natural by Robert J. Carmack Watching the HBO produced TV movie “Bessie” with Queen Latifah as Blues singer Bessie Smith was quite painful. I not sure which was worse the writing or the acting, to be honest, the acting was scattered by instances…
OPEN LETTER TO ALL MY FAMILY AND SOCIAL MEDIA FRIENDS
posted by #@blues2jazzguy Hello friends and family, (Heads-Up) I’m less than 30 days away from launching my Crowd Funding Project to raise $25,000. dollars for my new theater project ” Chitlin’ Circuit” : a Glimpse into the Los Angeles Club Music Scene of late 40s,1950s & early 60s. featuring music of T Bone Walker, L.A….
Ahmad Jamal | Yusef Lateef: Live at the Olympia
Originally posted on Jazz You Too:
Jamal and Lateef together and live at the Olympia – the first is already an octogenarian, the second was 91 by the time of the recording – for both, playing is a natural act – they make it extraordinary! This double album reunites them in the second set. The…
A SWINGIN’ JAZZ and POETRY AFFAIR at KINGSTON CAFE
posted by CHEF ROBB-the Jazz Cooker #@blues2jazzguy BAM!! Now thats what I’m talking about, real jazz and poetry right out of a Bohemian film or a hipster’s pad somewhere on the east coast. Saturday night at the Kingston Cafe was all lit up with fat grooves from the baritone horn of Dale Fielder, who handled…
DALE FIELDER QUARTET 20 YEAR CELEBRATION JAZZ SPOKEN HERE!
posted by #@blues2jazzguy hipstersanctuary.com staffwriter JAZZ SPOKEN HERE is a combination of JAZZ and POETRY being performed by Jazz man Dale Fielder and his Quartet. also performing as special guest poet is longtime jazz promoter and journalist,Robert J. Carmack. DALE FIELDER QUARTET is celebrating its 20th year as a group playing together, and…
WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN-PERCY SLEDGE 1941-2015 RIP
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Soul Music icon, Percy Sledge, after being taken off the road late last year and hospitalized has died. it was announced on Tuesday, April 13, by a spokesperson for the family. The Southern Soul singer recorded one of the “biggest” records of 1966, When a Man Loves a…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBASSADOR HERBIE HANCOCK LOOKING GOOD
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Its the birthday of the very man who once thought he would never reach the the greatness of an Oscar Peterson or a Thelonius Monk. Now 75,looking 40ish is the jazz icon who has accomplished every possible music, presidential and international recognition & Lifetime Achievement Award there is….
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