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Этот уникальный альбом посвящаю своему другу BlackB -
большому любителю классического джаза!

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Many people have heard of Josephine Baker but how many know what kind of person she was before she took Paris by storm during the 1920s. Born in St.Louis, Missouri from humble beginnings to a washerwoman, abandoned by her Father, her Mother married again to a kind but perpetually unemployed man. The family eventually grew to include three more children. Josephine cleaned houses and babysat for wealthy white families and at thirteen was a waitress at a club. While waiting at tables she met and had a brief marriage to Willie Wells, but Josephine was determined never to depend on a man for support, and when the relationship soured she left, unusual for a woman of her era. But she was an unusual woman and married three more times while keeping the name Baker acquired when married to American Willie Baker in 1921. After that marriage she attained French citizenship when she married Jean Lion in 1937. Having sang in Harlem night clubs and at ten working as an extra at the St. Louis music-hall, she became keen to be a dancer so she ran away to New York where she joined Eubie Blake and Noble Sissic’s all-black touring show ‘Shuffle Along’. She was even advised to improve her dancing skills, after being told she `danced like a Monkey’. Undeterred from her first ambition, in 1925 she joined the Dudley Dance, a twenty-five strong group comprising mostly black dancers, singers and musicians who included the young Sidney Bechet in a European tour of Lew Leslie’s ‘Blackbirds’. This show hit Paris as `La revue negre’ at the Champs-Elysees in October 1925 and introduced the Charleston to Paris. `La Baker’ conquered overnight; resplendently naked apart from strategically placed ostrich feathers. A combination of stage-presence and cute vocalising meant she soon outshone all her rivals at the leading nightspots. With her comic, sensual appeal and her exotic beauty she generated nicknames like `Black Venus’, `Black Pearl’ and `Creole Goddess’. So famous did she become that her admirers, and there were many, bestowed a plethora of gifts, including diamonds and cars, and many offers of marriage.

Продолжаем тему возврата легенды чикагского блюза!
Диск-лауреат премии "Грэмми" - и в данном случае, награда действительно нашла героя, хотя, думаю, могла бы найти и пораньше.

"You Left Me In The Dark" is a very fine album. It makes you wonder what might have been if Williams had not quit the blues scene for so long. Thanks to his wife (who persuaded him to take the guitar out from under the bed) and his friends who helped reintroduce him to live performing, the blues world is once more a richer place. "You Left Me In The Dark" is a class CD from a class act. ~ Gordon Baxter

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Не все, возможно, согласятся с таким критическим портретом, и всё же гораздо интересней читать, когда автор не скрывает своих личных характеристик, не лишённых доли юмора.

В рождественский день хочу преподнести в подарок нашим женщинам - модераторам этот альбом !
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С рождеством Вас!

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4-я запись вообще (и первая на правах лидера) тогда еще 21-летнего трубача, находившегося под сильнейшим влияием и патронажем Диззи Гиллеспи.

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Трио японского пианиста Цуёси Ямамото(Tsuyoshi Yamamoto) с альбомом "Midnight Sugar".
Хороший альбом с отличным качеством звука.