Post your fave pic of an influential black musician.

[7wo7rees]

[Glassunion]

1. Game over... I declare myself the winner.

[Swede]

2. Move over,Rover and let Jimi take over.

[dana_b]

3. you beat me

my number one favorite musician.

[7wo7rees]

11. Played better upside down and backward than any could straight.

[dbt]

20. This may be my all-time favorite Hendrix image:

May,1966, Atlantic Records party:



Did Pickett realize that he could be run over, crushed and melted at any moment?

[livetohike]

23. Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about

:toast:

[alphafemale]

24. I love that picture.

:loveya:

thanks

[fNord]

4. The great Satchel Mouth

[whistler162]

83. Bingo... the one and the only Satchel Mouth

[Brickbat]

5. Can't decide which one I like better...

[7wo7rees]

10. I can't either!!!

Those lips, those legs. That voice, that energy.

[stuntcat]

43. wow!

love these!

[Brickbat]

6. And of course...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28238087/Aretha+Franklin+ARETHA.jpg

[Brickbat]

7. Here's another good one of Chuck D...

[Brickbat]

8. I could go on...

[7wo7rees]

9. Please go on

That's not your only Ace...

[7wo7rees]

12. Chuck the Duck

[Tikki]

13. Arthur Lee....

Tikki

[Tikki]

14. Richard Berry....

Tikki

[Tikki]

15. Keb Mo....

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Keb+Mo+2011+New+Orleans+Jazz+Heritage+Festival+L7iE_b4gsDbl.jpg



Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

41. I just found out that the remaining members of Love...

...will be playing at a small club/restaurant very nearby me in a few weeks.

I'm going to try and make it, I wish Arthur was still around though.

[Tikki]

77. I listed some of my favorite SoCal performers...but the influence of musicians...

like Arthur and, yes, LOVE was beyond boundaries. Hope you make the show.
:D
Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

78. I just noticed that you're in SoCal...

...the Love show is in Sierra Madre at a place called Cafe 322 - 322 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. - Sierra Madre, CA 91024.

Here's the link to their music schedule this month: http://www.cafe322.com/vc/index.php

"LOVE Revisited" is Sept. 23. Not surprisingly - they're permanent fixtures in Pasadena/Sierra Madre - Snotty Scotty & The Hankies are on before LOVE.

Cafe 322 is a halfway decent Italian Restaurant which regularly features live music. It's clean, the room is small, it's a great place to see good music with food and drink at reasonable prices (although there is a $10 cover for LOVE, I've never before paid a cover charge to get in).

Before its current owners revamped the place, it was a cop bar for off-duty LAPD cops, and before that, several of my bands would play there when it was a dingy dive bar rock club, called The Sunset, back in the early 90s or thereabouts.

[Tikki]

82. More than any, this man made me want to stick to learning how to make..

music..
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2565120/Bo+Diddley+bodiddley.jpg

Tikki

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. MILES by artist Bruni Sablan

I've been to her gallery in Campbell...her Miles stuff is AMAZING. She's since moved to Willow Glen.

http://www.brunijazzart.com/library/originaljpgs/Davis,Miles,540,22x28,Mr.Davis,copy.JPG

[fNord]

17. Billie......

any questions see link first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2c855pZxgQ&feature=fvst

[stuntcat]

44. wow beautiful picture

I was listening to her 'God Bless the Child' this morning and her voice got to me so much, it almost didn't even sound human.

[Skittles]

95. she was gorgeous

yes INDEED

[sarge43]

18. Miss Ella

[BNJMN]

63. Top Shelf.

Ella Fitzgerald : One Note Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL54D0472AC730D9E6

[TK421]

91. this is my pick!

[dbt]

19. Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!

The rest is hysteria!

:smoke:

[retread]

21. Here's 2.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/7724275/Memphis+Minnie+Minnie_stand.jpg

[AsahinaKimi]

22. Wonderful

[alphafemale]

25. Many of you may not recognize this woman and that's a shame.

She influenced a lot of people.



Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Here she is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

If you have a short attention span just skip ahead to 1:25.

You'll see why she was influential.

[Tripper11]

28. WOW! Simply amazing....

Never heard of her but I am a fan...

[dbt]

29. Oh, HAIL YES!

and could she whup that goodtar or WHAT?

:loveya:

[stuntcat]

45. she's great!

TY for the link, I'd never heard of her :hug:

[abq e streeter]

87. Sister Rosetta....

:thumbsup:

[abq e streeter]

88. Oops meant to reply to OP

[Skittles]

94. WOW

that gal is AWESOME! :thumbsup:

[Tikki]

26. Allan Toussaint...

Tikki

[ohiosmith]

27. :

[Iggo]

34. Winner. Thread over. (n/t)

[Brickbat]

30. His Purpleness...

http://www.prince.org:81/img/cc6115c91f.jpg

[stuntcat]

42. aww

I was sooo obsessed with him when I was like 14, 15. My favorite pictures were these old kind, omg I was in looovvvee

[Gormy Cuss]

31. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

[stuntcat]

46. yay!!

I saw him in concert a few years ago (and yeah I'm gonna brag about it til I die :p) It was during the Bush years but he did not get political at all, which kinda surprised me, but maybe that was just because he was old. Although when I saw Nina Simone she stood up from her piano, with some effort, to yell "get him the f_ck out of there!" That was 2001 I think.. I'm kind of glad she's not lived to see how bad things got, although it's a shame she never knew our country elected a black president!

[Gormy Cuss]

48. I saw him once many years ago (1980s, I think) on the same tour as Stevie Wonder.

Both were terrific but for totally different reasons. Many in the arena were there for Wonder and had no idea what Heron was about. It was fascinating to watch him win them over.

[stuntcat]

50. "win them over"

that is great!

[GoCubsGo]

32. 300 Lbs. of Heavenly Joy

This is it. This is it. Here's what you get.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TiGcteoUXNw/SOaUlszUB6I/AAAAAAAAAMc/7Ts__QMawrA/s320/Howlin%27+Wolf.jpeg

[Rob H.]

33. The one and only Bob Marley

[Brickbat]

35. Such a great pic. So full of joy.

[av8rdave]

36. The incomparable Buddy Guy

[bluesbassman]

37. McKinley Morganfield

AKA: Muddy Waters

[MrScorpio]

38. The Godfather Himself

[rrneck]

39. Thelonius Monk

[GReedDiamond]

40. Rahsaan Roland Kirk...

[stuntcat]

47. Louis Armstrong

Just this past year I finally got Jazz. Better late than never though, it has saved my life, no kidding.

[Joe Fields]

49. I wasn't quick enough to post many that have been posted, so I post this

Mississippi John Hurt

[BNJMN]

51. Only one?

BUT, no one acts alone. Each 'Big Man' musician had good support and surrounded themselves with quality musicians.

[Bennyboy]

52. Ornette Coleman

One of my photos..

[many a good man]

56. +1

Love ornette coleman.

Here's my contrib: Sun Ra

[Deep13]

53. three ladies

Martha Reeves



Fontella Bass



Florence Cole-Talbert (1890-1961), soprano and educator

[7wo7rees]

54. We missed some. This well is deep.

---- The Count
---- Ray
--------- Bam
------------- RIP JMJ

[Ptah]

55. Dizzy

[Bennyboy]

57. Michael Franti.....

With Karl Denson, Radioactive and CarlYoung...

[BNJMN]

61. Can I get a Corona Lite with that?

"It's alright, I like the Sprite in you."

[Bennyboy]

58. Taj Mahal...

[bluesbassman]

59. T-Bone Walker

Stormy Monday
http://youtu.be/hVR8lg1YLuc

[bluesbassman]

60. Earl Hooker

Anna Lee
http://youtu.be/j2WIUhibkVg

[Skittles]

62. Sam Cooke

[BNJMN]

64. David Ruffin

[flvegan]

65. Don't need a pic of Run-DMC.

Nor Dre or Ice Cube.

[BNJMN]

69. Uh, why not? DMC was incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlP3mywBDz4
That album (the 1st I ever bought) was DOOOOOOPE.
And very influential.

[flvegan]

75. Because

they're immortalized in everyone's mind. Or at least they should be.

[ornotna]

66. Nina

http://youtu.be/h8tuTSi6Sck

[cemaphonic]

67. Hmm, no Mahalia yet?

[Flaxbee]

68. oh, just a very, very few:

This woman is fantastic -- check out youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk

[BNJMN]

70. Was Joplin mentioned already? (...it'd be nice to include a fav song? or not)

S Joplin ~ Preludio atto III Treemonisha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cChrYKzVmls

[Joe Fields]

71. Nat King Cole

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/24066457/Nat+King+Cole+natkingcole.jpg

The first African American to host his own weekly variety show. Great musician and song stylist.

[progressoid]

72. Sarah Vaughan

My father-in-law's favorite.

[Lionel Mandrake]

80. !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8cFdZyWOOs

[rbnyc]

73. .

[sarge43]

74. The Master

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-Y7qw_kog&feature=related

[LWolf]

76. Okay.

It's not my favorite photo of him; that rests in a photo album about 50 miles away. This one shows one way that I remember him, though:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/63818611/Hampton+Hawes+Medium_712200665756PM_HawesHam.jpg

[Lionel Mandrake]

79. "I just play the piano, but God is in the house tonight."

That's what Fats Waller said when he was playing at a club (in 1938) and spotted Art Tatum in the audience.

[Mendocino]

84. "First you speak of Art Tatum,

then you take a long deep breath, then you speak of other pianists."

Dizzy Gillespie

[MiddleFingerMom]

81. I was glad to come back to this thread and see Gormy Cuss say Gil Scott-Heron.

.
.
.
Credited by many to be "the grandfather of rap and hip-hop" (though he was pretty
strictly a blues poet), I think Scott-Heron is one of the most under-recognized
geniuses of our time (well, MY time anyway... youngsters).
.
CAUTION: FREQUENT USES OF THE N-WORD AND THE MF-WORD
.
.
.
This has always been my absolute FAVORITE piece of his -- one of his shortest...
but the combination of the BEAUTY of the music and the ugliness of his language
and the events he is describing was just outright INSPIRED.
.
.
"Poem for Jose Campos Torres" (you can check Wikipedia for Jose Campos Torres for more details).
.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYt2K6vacv0
.
.
.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

85. maybe I missed these three ---

Barry White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw

Sharon Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZEpxqwtyJk

Darlene Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-8ZERV_D_Q

[friedgreentomatoes]

86. cant post pic now...

but what? no Tracy Chapman?

Also, what was the name of the guy who John Cage used to call up?

[abq e streeter]

89. Tried to copy and post one of Robert Johnson

but for some reason, it wouldn't post.

[Release The Hounds]

90. Living Colour

[TK421]

92. Diana Ross anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0HE7TC8y5g&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxZRdxrP0Vo&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GtyMeEcPPE


too damn many to post, but damn what a fucking talent she was!

[TBF]

93. Sittin' on the dock of the bay ...

[JackDragna]

96. My man, big tall Dex (Dexter Gordon)

[cwydro]

97. Diana Ross

but my photobucket ain't working