In the Morning - Nina Simone - Paris Olympia 1968 1/16

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Simone,

Happy Black History Month.

Eska's "Tino Famba Tese" We Can Walk Together Free AIFF Download

Hello World and Beloved Readers,

Eska "Walking On The Moon" is the Live Remix Eska put on Soundcloud today. Yes, you can even download it to your very own computer

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From Songbird, Eska:

"This one is especially for all you Zimbos out there. I am not a confident Shona speaker let alone writer…Kutaura chiShona kunonetsa stereki??…but I delighted in saying the most ridiculous things to my Mbuya (grandmother) when she was alive. Irony does not really exist in the Shona language so you can only imagine my English sense of humour translated into ridiculous/surreal shonglish…often resulting in her laughing hysterically…which made me so warm inside. My opening lyric, ‘Tino famba tese’ is translated, ‘We can walk together’. And on that note…Pamberi ne Zimbabwe!"

Nina Simone - Live Video "Revolution" Paris Oympia 1968

Nina Simone Live Video of “Revolution” Never Seen Before Today (by me anyway)!

My Dear Nina Simone on this Happy Friday. I can hardly contain myself and remain in my seat. Every day is a new day sharing treasures, and Nina Simone is the Honorary Jewel of Funk Sanctum Radio, oh and throughout most of my life! I present to you today one of my favorite songs by my all-time favorite artist, Dr. Nina Simone. Your dj just found this video this a.m., searching for Nina Simone “Revolution” which happens to be one of my favorites. I have never seen this footage before and apparently someone has just released previously unreleased Nina footage on YouTube. WOAH!!! Make my day! WOOT! Hey now! Here, I am going to share this with you and help you get your Friday off on the right foot with Nina and me!

Tulipa Ruiz - Só Sei Dançar com Você

Hello World,

Dear Readers, I am at work and swamped (this is a good thing) with no time to blog, so please read all the posts from 2010 if you have a jones. I just discovered this "Jewel" today. Enjoy and share some love today. Will write more time permitting.

Funky #FollowFriday Already w/ Miles Davis 1991

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Dear Family,

Miles Davis' last concert was at the Hollywood Bowl 8/25/91 with the Yellow Jackets, David Benoit and I was in attendance in the audience! This has to be one of the biggest "coincidences" in my concert-going history. I love live music. That being said, I have made it a point to see my favorite artists live whenever possible. But this particular concert in 1991 was especially sweet. My friends worked at a place that had season box seats for the Hollywood Bowl and requested tickets for four of us friends. She had no idea what day or who would be headlining until closer to the actual date of the tickets. Well, it was decided the tickets that were given us: August 25, 1991 -- that is my birthday in Real Life!!! I was going to have box seats for the Hollywood Bowl on my birthday (FREE !!!). Okay, now it's getting closer to the date and we can see who will be playing: None other than MILES DAVIS!!! I moved to New Jersey in the sixties primarily for the proximity to New York jazz.

It was 1969 exactly when on the bus from LaGuardia to Newark, my new home, I sat down next to a grandmotherly looking woman. It was not long into our ride on that Greyhound that she told me she was Miles Davis' maid. You know that I took this as a "sign" that my move was the right thing for me to be doing. She told me he was very nice to her. She stayed there during the week and went home on the weekends.