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STREET CORNER MUSIC TRIBUTE

One of our favorite indie labels just dropped it’s 50th release in 5 years. Hella impressive.

We had to do an all SCM mix…

Enjoy!

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/853tio9hii9l88s/STREET_CORNER_MUSIC_TRIBUTE.mp3/file

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BEATS FROM THE WEST

Afrobeat? We gotchu!

DL: https://dl.orangedox.com/CzmGkhJaszdrZht2WW

Tracklist:

thepitnairobi

BEATS FROM THE WEST

Afrobeat? We gotchu!

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/309etakubtm1w38/BEATS_FROM_THE_WEST.mp3/file

Tracklist:

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CRUISE CONTROL - VOLUME ONE

New rnb mix for y’all.

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/aa77ub6ulo87s7l/CRUISE_CONTROL_-_VOLUME_ONE.mp3/file

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Deep inside every Kenyan lies a wound that is triggered each time a terrorist attack is mentioned be it on air or on social media. Fresh cuts are still bleeding in the hearts of those affected by t…

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count basie and billie holiday, 1951

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SHE IS EVERYWHERE… Billie Holiday, jazz

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“Strange Fruit“ is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in other regions of the United States. Meeropol set it to music and with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues, including Madison Square Garden. Once asked the question “What does pastoral mean,” by the son of author Maya Angelou’s, Guy, her answer was searing: “It means when the crackers are killing the niggers. It means when they take a little nigger like you and snatch off his nuts and shove them down his goddam throat.”

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The present representing the past. Black music will always be important. To us and to the world. We shaped the musical landscape, and the legends who paved the way will never be forgotten.

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Kadir Nelson - “Harlem on my mind”, cover of The New Yorker, Feb 2016

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1. You Stepped Out Of A Dream (Tony Martin) 2. Frenesi (Artie Shaw) 3. I Wanna Be Loved By You (Marilyn Monroe) 4. Stardust (Artie Shaw) 5. Autumn Leaves (Roger Williams) 6. Peggy, The Pin-Up Girl (The Glenn Miller Orchestra) 7. Sing, Sing, Sing (Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) 8. Thanks (Bing Crosby) 9. I Only Have Eyes For You (The Flamingos) 10. Dancing Cheek To Cheek (Fred Astaire) 11. In The Mood (The Glenn Miller Orchestra) 12. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Billie Holiday) 13. Moonglow (Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) 14. Once And For Always (Jo Stafford) 15. Moonlight Serenade (Glen Gray and the Time Life Orchestra) 16. The Memory Of This Dance (Glen Gray and the Time Life Orchestra) 17. Istanbul, Not Constantinople (The Four Lads) 18. La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf) 19. Long Ago And Far Away (Jo Stafford)

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Billie Holiday and Art Tatum, 1944

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Frank Sinatra didn’t cry for friends Humphrey Bogart or Joe Kennedy but he cried for Billie Holiday. Sinatra visited Holiday on her deathbed in a run down New York facility, ‘Harlem Metropolitan Hospital.’ Holiday was dying of cirrhosis and she was dying from heroin…Three cops were stationed outside of her hospital door. A beautician was inside doing her hair and nails and she was smoking outside of her oxygen tent and begging the nurse to get her a beer. She’d say catchy things like “Don’t trust that bitch. She can take the gold out of your teeth while you’re chewing gum.” Holiday’s spirit was feisty but her body was defeated.

She was thrilled to see Frank Sinatra. He told her how much he loved her recent album ‘Lady In Satin’ and he tried to get her to talk about future projects. He told her, “I owe you so much for teaching me how to phrase when I was starting out with Harry James.” Holiday replied, “I may have showed you how to bend a note, Frankie, that’s all.” Later that day, Holiday’s liver failed and she went into a coma and died.

Sinatra locked himself in his penthouse and wept for two days, playing her songs and drinking and crying. I had never seen him hurt so much, not even for ex-wife Ava Gardner.“

-George Jacobs, Frank Sinatra’s valet