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the bridge
Uptown Saturday Night
“Harlem Nocturne”
Duke Ellington
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Berenice Abbott (1936)
The Bridge*
(BRINGING AMERICA TOGETHER AGAIN)
BILLIE HOLIDAY
ROBERT JOHNSON (LOVE IN VAIN)
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (BLUE)
UNDER A CRESCENT MOON (NEW ORLEANS)
playlists*
ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
[MUSIC TIME]
Uptown
[PLAYLIST]
Old Folks At Home
Louis Armstrong
Suwannee River (New Orleans / Florida)
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“Cross Road Blues”
Robert Johnson
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“Me And The Devil Blues”
Robert Johnson
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•THE DEVIL IS SINGING OUR SONG
“Traveling Riverside Blues”
Robert Johnson
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“Kansas City Stomp”
Jelly Roll Morton
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“Perdido Street Blues”
Louis Armstrong
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Introducing Duke Ellington
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“Echoes Of The Jungle”
Duke Ellington
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“East St Louis Toodle-oo”
Duke Ellington
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“Mini The Moocher”
Cab Calloway
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“The Man From Harlem”
Cab Calloway
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“Reefer Man”
Cab Calloway
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“Take The ‘A’ Train”
Duke Ellington
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“String Of Pearls”
Duke Ellington
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“Caravan”
Duke Ellington
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“Rhapsody In Blue”
Duke Ellington
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“Harlem Nocturne”
Ray Nobel
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“Blue Moon”
Billie Holiday
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“My Old Flame”
Duke Ellington
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“God Bless The Child”
Billie Holiday
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“How High The Moon”
Duke Ellington / Cab Calloway
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“Strange Fruit”
Billie Holiday
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“Cotton Club Stomp”
Duke Ellington
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Summer of Soul (1969)
… or when the revolution was NOT TELEVISED.
QuestLove’s documentary film (2010) about the music festival in the Summer of 1969, that went less noticed than Woodstock or Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon. It was a legendary show in Harlem (NYC), that Questlove brought Into The Light (Out Of The Shadows).
Midnight In Harlem
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi
2010 — Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival
((( FLA>NYC )))
“Black Bottom Stomp”
Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
1925 —
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“Viper’s Drag”
Fats Waller
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“You’re A Viper”
The Reefer Song
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“Maple Leaf Rag”
Scott Joplin
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“You’re A Viper”
Fats Waller‘s Harlem Stride laid the foundation on which so much of the modern, electric keyboard sound was built.
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yZ.
Fats Waller Full “Stride”
Under Cover Of The Night
Rolling Stones
1983 — Undercover
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1983 — The song was largely a Mick Jagger composition, with guitarist Keith Richards going as far as saying, “Mick had this one all mapped out, I just played on it”. Jagger later said that the song “was heavily influenced by William Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night, a free-wheeling novel about political and sexual repression. It combines a number of different references to what was going down in Argentina and Chile.” The song was written in Paris, where the album was recorded, in 1982.
“Reefer Man”
Harlan Lattimore & His Connie’s Inn Orchestra
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“Reefer Man”
Cab Calloway
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Reefer Madness
“If You’re a Viper” (originally released as “You’se a Viper,” and sometimes titled “If You’re a Viper“) was composed by Stuff Smith, who with his band the Onyx Club Boys, recorded the song in 1936. It was the b-side to the song “After You’ve Gone.”
Open Letter To A Landlord
Living Colour (Vivid)
Home is where the ghetto is
((( NYC )))
“Hail Hail Rock N Roll”
Garland Jeffreys w/ Vernon Reid
“The Color of You”
1992 — Don’t Call Me Buckweat
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“I Was Afraid Of Malcolm”
Garland Jeffreys w/ Vernon Reid
1992 — Don’t Call Me Buckweat
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“I’m Afraid of Americans”
As Everybody Should Be
1997 — David Bowie @ Madison Square Garden
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Sleepy River
Original Song of Freedom
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O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, Muziya, the mighty one,
Lord of the sun and moon,
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, Muziya, the mighty one,
Lord of the sun and moon,
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, Muziya, the mighty one,
Lord of the sun and moon,
O, lead thy people to freedom;
O, lead thy people to freedom.
There’s a sleepy river I know;
Down that sleepy river we’ll go;
Under a crowd of stars in the sky,
We’ll watch the clouds go drowsily by;
Where the breezes murmur a song,
While the moonlight gleams,
We’ll keep drifting lazily on
Down our river of dreams,
Down our river of dreams.
Stepping stones, help me cross the river to that far-off shore
That my heart is longing for:
The land of my dreams.
Stepping stones, guide me to that quiet forest cool and deep,
Where the trees are lulled to sleep
By murmuring streams.
Lead me to woodland shadows
Away from the noisy town,
Away from the mighty whirlpool
That’s trying to drag me down.
Stepping stones, help me cross the river where the rapids roar;
Lead me to my home once more:
My kingdom of dreams.
the bridge
BRINGING AMERICA TOGETHER AGAIN.
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN ( 1.)
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE ( 2.)
AT THE CROSSROADS ( 3.)
ROBERT JOHNSON LOVE IN VAIN
THE DEVIL IS SINGING OUR SONG
CROSS THAT RIVER (BLUE WAS ANGRY)
CROSS THAT RIVER (PLAYLIST)
LIVE (2014) @ WLRN MIAMI
LIVE (2014) @ OCEAN DRIVE
LIVE (2015) @ OCEAN DRIVE
LIVE (2015) @ POMPANO BEACH
LIVE (2016) @ HARTFORD
THE GULLAH (BLACK SEMINOLES)
CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT (BEGINNING BLACK)
the black list
JOHN LEWIS (DANGEROUS CROSSING)
BENJAMIN BANNEKER (WATCHING THE SKY/KEEPING TIME)
THE ABOLITIONIST DREAM (TO BE FREE)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (THE FIRST TO SPEAK FREE)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (THE FIRST SYMPATHIZER)
HARRIET TUBMAN (THE CONDUCTOR)
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (A WAY OUT)
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (THE DREAMER)
MALCOLM X (NO SELL OUT)
BIG MAMA THORTON (THE ORIGINAL “HOUND DOG”)
ELVIS PRESLEY (THE WHITE WAY TO ROCK)
CHUCK BERRY (WHO’S YOUR DADDY?)
LITTLE RICHARD (“I INVENTED ROCK N ROLL”)
JERRY LEE LEWIS (KICK ASS PIANO)
JIMI HENDRIX (ELECTRIC FUTURE)
HARRY BELAFONTE (VOICE FOR JUSTICE)
DICK GREGORY (STAND UP ACTIVIST)
THURGOOD MARSHALL (1967)
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM(1972)
COLIN POWELL (“THE LAST BLACK [AND HONORABLE] REPUBLICAN”)
JOHN LEWIS (“MAKING TROUBLE FOR GOOD”)
BARACK OBAMA (“GREAT BLACK HOPE”)
KAMALA HARRIS (YOU CAN CALL HER DEVI)
STACEY ABRAMS (“VOICE OF THE NEW SOUTH”)
MAXWELL FROST (“YOUNG HOPE”)
ARETHA FRANKLIN (THE NATURAL)
NINA SIMONE (THE ORIGINAL ANGRY BLACK WOMAN)
GIL SCOTT-HERON (GHETTO CONSCIENCE)
GARLAND JEFFREYS (“I WAS AFRAID OF MALCOM”)
SUMMER OF SOUL (HARLEM 1969)
WOODSTOCK (THREE DAYS SUMMER 1969)
BLACK PANTHERS (A PARTY WITH GUNS)
ANGELA DAVIS (COMMUNIST RAGE)
BOBBY SEALE (BLACK MILITANT POWER)
HUEY P. NEWTON
THE LAST POETS (THE ORIGINAL RAPPERS)
ISAAC HAYES
WATTSTAX (1972)
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (1974)
ZAIRE ’74
SOUL TRAIN (AFRICAN AMERICAN BANDSTAND)
RICHARD PRYOR (TRUIST OF THEM ALL)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
EDDIE MURPHY (PUTTING THE HOOD IN HOLLYWOOD)
CHRIS ROCK (NAT X)
IN LIVING COLOR (BLACK COMEDY)
MICHAEL JORDAN (THE VALUE OF SHOES)
JAY-Z (HIP-HOP MOGEL)
BEYONCE (21st CENTURY DIANA)
TUPAC SHAKUR (THOUGHTFUL THUG)
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BROOKLYN’S FINEST)
NWA (LA DREAMERS)
PUBLIC ENEMY (BACK TO NYC)
“Bring The Noise” (w/ANTHRAX)
ICE-T (STRAIGHT INTO TELEVISION)
MOS DEF (HIP-HOP, ROCK, AND HOLLYWOOD)
SPIKE LEE (WHITE LINES w/LAWRENCE FISHBURNE)
DAVE CHAPPELLE (AN OLD WISE MAN BEFORE HIS TIME)
What’s With Dubai?
THE RENAISSANCE (IT STARTED IN HARLEM)
“Duke Ellington Paris” (1947) Herman Leonard
Maurice (Chicago)
Herman Leonard
Berenice Abbott
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
THE BRIDGE
FLORIDA TIMELINE
RADIO DAYS (EUROPE)
WAR OF THE WORLDS
RADIO DAYS (PACIFIC)
BIKINIS AND BOMBS
The Bridge (Live)
CROSS THAT RIVER (1850-2020)
LIVE (2014) @ WLRN MIAMI
LIVE (2014) @ OCEAN DRIVE
LIVE (2015) @ OCEAN DRIVE
LIVE (2015) @ POMPANO BEACH
LIVE (2016) @ HARTFORD
Derek Trucks met Mike Mattison, the singer in his first band, on a New York City subway.
Pointed in its opinion, Living Colour has always used its music to deliver a socially conscious message with a razor-sharp, hard-metal edge.