It goes without saying that I love ALL the music that I play on the Stormy Monday Show.  Special highlights of this weeks show were Deborah Cox and her tribute to Dinah Washington with Blowtop Blues.  I loved Cyndi Lauper going blues on us and including BB King and  Allen Toussaint on her new CD "Memphis Blues'.  Joni Mitchell's "River" redone by Herbie Hancock and  Corrine Bailey -Rae deserve props, and certainly on the soul side, high praise to  Ryan Shaw  for keepin' on. See you next week on the Stormy Monday Show. 

Stormy Monday Show - Jazz, Blues and Soul 8-28-10

What sets Nnenna Freelon apart from many jazz vocalists is that she didn't begin her career until she was in her late thirties with three children in tow. Freelon worked  in the health care field  before deciding to enter the music world.  She studied with multi instrumentalist Yusef Lateef and sat in with Ellis Marsalis. He gave her demo to the right people at Columbia and she became a signed artist.  Freelon has been nominated many times for the coveted Grammy, and she certainly does have awards.  Nneena Freelon is a courageous, and refreshing singer with a winning style.

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Mary Lou Williams, it seems, was born to play piano. Self taught at an early age, she helped  support her 10 half brothers and sisters at age 6,by playing private parties. A year later she started playing publicly in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, where she was raised..  Throughout her career she wrote and arranged hundreds of compositions  for the great bandleaders, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker,  and Dizzie Gillespie.









 

Jazz brought us into the Stormy Monday Show with Nancy La Mott's version of Accentuate The Positive. We were treated to King Pleasure  and quickly switched gears to Buckwheat Zydeco. Sybil played  a sweet tune from Bobby Charles' last recording effort called "Happy Birthday Fats Domino" which is sure to make you smile any day of the year.








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Sammy Davis Jr. was an uncompromising, original entertainer. He had it all from head to toe; singing, dancing, acting  all done in absolute excellence. He started his career as a child  in vaudeville with his father and "uncle" as the Will Mastin Trio. He is well known for singing  Candyman and Mr. Bojangles and those two songs were in fact  his least favorites. Mr. Bojangles because it was a song about a dancer in his declining years, and it brought Sammy Davis Jr.  face to face with his own inevitable destiny, and Candyman, well, it was just downright corny according to him, but it made him a star and  a headliner in Las Vegas. If you want to see how it's really  supposed to be done, visit Sammy Davis on Youtube.

Marcia Ball been doing this Blues thing for some 30 years now. A great piano player and singer from New Orleans but born in Texas. I just love the spirit in her song.  Think that ain't true? I bet you get up and dance and laugh when you hear " That's Enough Of That Stuff".  


 A 4 time Grammy nominee and winner of  8 Blues music awards, you'll see her with  the likes of the Neville Brothers and Eddie Bo just jammin on  stage.  It's a performance you don't want to miss. 

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