Brother Ah / “Motherless Child.”
It’s dusty and beautiful.
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The Magic Lantern
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Alice Coltrane / ‘Oceanic Beloved’ (from A Monastic Trio; June 6, 1968)
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Arbol / “Nomi” (feat. Suzy Mangion on vocals)
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert - La musique
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Dorothy Ashby / “Soul Vibrations” (from Afro-Harping, 1968)
Aunt Lillie, professional harpist, c. 1900
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Alice Coltrane / ‘Transcendence’ (Sepia Tone Records, 1977)
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Alice Coltrane With Strings / ‘Galaxy in Turiya’ (from World Galaxy, 1971)
Alice Coltrane, piano, organ, harp, tamboura, and percussion; Frank Lowe, saxophones and percussion; Reggie Workman, bass; Ben Riley, drums; Elayne Jones, tympani; David Sackson, concertmaster; Arthur Aaron, Henry Aaron, Julien Barber, Avron Coleman, Harry Glickman, Edward Green, Janet Hill, LeRoy Jenkins, Joan Kalirsh, Ronald Lipscomb, Seymour Miroff, Thomas Nickerson, Alan Shulman, Irving Spice, William Stone, strings. Arrangement by Alice Coltrane.
Germaine Tailleferre (April 19, 1892 - 1983) was a French composer associated with the anti-Wagnerian group Les Six.
In 1923, Tailleferre began to spend a great deal of time with Maurice Ravel at his home in Monfort-L’Amaury. Ravel encouraged her to enter the Prix de Rome Competition. In 1925, she married Ralph Barton, an American caricaturist, and moved to Manhattan, New York. She remained in the United States until 1927 when she and her husband returned to France. They divorced shortly thereafter.
Tailleferre wrote many of her most important works during the 1920s, including her 1st Piano Concerto, The Harp Concertino, the Ballets Le marchand d’oiseaux (the most frequently performed ballet in the repertoire of the Ballets Suédois during the 1920s) and La nouvelle Cythère which was commissioned by Diaghilev for the ill-fated 1929 season of the famous Ballets Russes, and Sous le ramparts d’Athènes in collaboration with Paul Claudel, as well as several pioneering film scores, including B’anda in which she used African themes.
She wrote several works which could be considered to be inspired by Surrealism, including the 1948 Ballet Paris-Magie (scenario by Lise Deharme), the Operas La Petite Sirène (book by Philippe Soupault) and Le Maître”(book by Eugène Ionesco). Tailleferre also wrote popular songs to texts by Claude Marci, the wife of Henri Jeanson, whose portrait had been painted by Magritte in the 1930s. (Wiki mash-up)
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