10.28.2010

Stormy Monday Show ~ Jazz, Blues & Soul 10-23-10

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The Stormy Monday Show was in full jazz mode tonight; we were instantly romanced by James Moody's " Moody's Mood For Love"; Al Jarreau brought us the much needed "Cold Duck" Time; and,  Art Tatum serenaded us with his beautiful piano on Moonglow. Even James Brown kept it jazzed with “That’s My Desire". 

I was so happy to share Comme Ci Comme Ca from Dr. Michael White's CD Blue Crescent with you. It was his first effort after the Katrina disaster and is filled with nice, upbeat tunes, and few somber tracks. And of course there was more, there always is on The Stormy Monday Show. Listen in on it and find out for yourself.







10.21.2010

Garnet Mimms

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It's easy to assume that when a musical sensation suddenly bursts on the scene that they are going to be an instant success.  After all you never head of them and yet, the next day, there they are. 

Garnet Mimms became an “instant success” after many years of musical obscurity. Raised in Philadelphia, his first influences came from the church.  He performed with many gospel groups while still in his teens and cut his first single in 1953. Eventually he switched to R&B/ doo- wop and had varying degrees of borderline success with a few record labels. 

Magic finally happened for Garnet when he moved to NYC in 1963 and met with the killer songwriting team of Jerry Ragovoy and Burt Burns, who signed Mimms' group to the United Artists label.

Success came fast after the release of "Cry Baby" with Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, but ‘Baby Don't you Weep' and 'For Your Precious Love’, set the arrival of Garnet Mimms in stone.

Garnet put out other very good tunes and was often compared to Sam Cooke, but his records were not as well appreciated by the public.  By 1967 Mimm's career was waning. In the 80's he turned to Christian music and started a prison ministry.

Garnet Mimms, born Garret Mimms (now Reverend Mimms) was born in 1933. He is still producing Christian music. His last CD was released to good reviews in 2008, titled “Is Anybody Out There"?





10.19.2010

Stormy Monday Show ~ Jazz, Blues and Soul 10-16-10

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My special guest on this week’s Stormy Monday Show was singer/ songwriter Deblois Milledge.  She plays a funky rock/folk style that is catchy and likeable. That's why she was on The Stormy Monday Show. (If it's good, I want you to hear it!) 

Deblois lives a gypsy lifestyle; playing from town to town, traveling in her van, sometimes with musicians, sometimes alone. You’ll find her at the Hogs Breath Saloon in Key West or Tobacco Road in Coconut Grove.   The first time I caught up with Deblois was at an Irish pub in Cocoa Beach, then another time in Cocoa Village at the Dog and Bone.  This last appearance was a nice cozy house concert....but Deblois' last show on this road trip back to California was at the House of Blues in San Diego.

My favorite CD of Deblois’ is called Night Painting. But I also filled tonight’s Stormy Monday Show with new music from Eliane Elias, some "vintage" Banu Gibson, and flashed back with Stevie Wonder’s ”Superwoman”.

Listen in with a click on the podcast below and we'll see you next week for more music and more surprises on the Stormy Monday Show.








10.13.2010

Juanita Dixon- Blues & Jazz

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Juanita Dixon and Sybil Gage

I met Juanita Dixon at Heidi's Jazz Club headlining on a Saturday night. She's a fierce down and dirty blues singer and a passionate jazz stylist. Born in Nassau Bahamas, Dixon  has been living in the South Florida area since 1950. She started performing when she was nine years old after her mother noted her gift and nurtured it by having her sing in the church choir. When Juanita was in her teens she heard R&B for the first time and made the decision to be a professional Rhythm and Blues singer. Her mother entered her in talent shows in the South Florida area at the now defunct Cafe Society where she won more than a few of them. 

Dixon attended University of Toronto for a little over a year, but the good times began to roll and she packed up her books and traded them in for road experience as a singer. She met the Jackson 5 in Indiana, lived and performed in New York for 3 years and then settled down in South Florida when a DJ friend pushed her to sing jazz at Sweets Lounge in Dania Beach. She almost didn't go after the gig, thinking she couldn't sing jazz, but she was hired and found she loved singing jazz, and ended up staying for 3 years.

Ms Dixon is inspired by Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and Lou Rawls. You can often hear her performing her spicy blues with the Jeff Prine Group in South Florida. Miss Dixon's mixture of sauce and sass shouldn't be missed. She tells it like it is, staking her claim, putting her money where her mouth is, and flashing that grin that says "ain't I just somethin'". You can't help but love her. I do and you will too. 

You can see Juanita Dixon perform live at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood Florida; The Village Pump in Lauderdale By The Sea, and  she is bluesin it at Village Grill in Lauderdale By the Sea. Her CD is called Bluuze Mama and you can pick it up at her live shows~ autographed.





10.10.2010

Stormy Monday Show -Jazz, Soul & Blues 10-9-10

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OOOhhh what a night on the Stormy Monday Show. We're back from a month's absence. I've been touring in New York, headlined at the spectacular New Smyrna Jazz Fest, and then a technical glitch that left us without a podcast for last week's show. 

So we made it up to you. This week we had an hour and a half solid blues and powerhouse Divas. And when I say Divas, I mean ones who truly deserve the title; those women that have been out there, been successful and  delved into other aspects of their talents aside from music. They have survived waning appeal, fickle audiences, public failures, and then rose up again and are still going strong. They're real people behind the music, real women, and that's why they're called Divas.



10.06.2010

Wayne Shorter - Jazz

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I am currently reading a great book on composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.  "Footprints" by Michelle Mercer is one that I am taking my time with because it is so good; I don't want it to come to an end! Shorter has always been elusive in the public eye. He is a complex human being with a prolific amount of music.

But Footprints brings out another side of him. Shorter gained worldwide prominence when he helped form Weather Report, and developed what came to be known as  Jazz fusion.  Footprints gives us a well balanced  view of his  professional and personal life.   It's one I recommend.







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