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Do Better Thursday: Wonderful World of Sports

10 February 2011

It’s Do Better time… *does Championship Belt Move* On the heels of the Green Bay Packers victory in the Super Bowl… It’s time for a Do Better Thursday post with a sports slant… Clock’s running out… Let’s get to it… DOING IT RIGHT!!! Wake Forest baseball coach donates kidney to freshman player and becomes MVP… No […]

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 10: Roberta Flack, Happy Birthday!

10 February 2011

Happy Birthday Lady Roberta… Check out her tribute from the “Ladies Reign” posts…

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 9: Gil Scott-Heron

9 February 2011

Getting ready to style on Whitey on the Moon… I was formally introduced to Scott-Heron as a freshman in high school… My English teacher decided it was the right time to reveal some revolutionary poetry to a bunch of wide-eyed Black kids…”Whitey on the Moon” was played… Instantly, Gil Scott-Heron became all of my classmates, […]

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 8: Billy Paul

8 February 2011

He had a lot more going on than just with Mrs. Jones… Brother Billy Paul… aka Paul Williams is owed a great “My Bad, Player”… When going through the list of unsung artists to “give roses”… of those still walking among us… I didn’t even consider him… It was definitely not because he isn’t worth […]

Happy Birthday, Dilla!

7 February 2011

…to the illest… Check out the JDilla Project…

Taking a Super Bowl Break…

6 February 2011

We’ll be back after this…

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 5: Les McCann

5 February 2011

Built the bridge from Jazz to Soul… To a certain degree Les McCann’s groundbreaking and breaking of other artists can be compared to Little Richard… Minus the eccentricities… Les pioneered a new genre of soul jazz… Most notably his rendition of “Compared To What”, along with Eddie Harris, merged protest song with jazz… In addition […]

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 4: Ann Peebles

4 February 2011

The Stand By Woman… You’ve heard her voice and didn’t know it… You’ve sung her words and had no idea… Whenever clouds appear and rain begins to fall… If you can’t stand it… Well, you can thank Miss Ann Peebles for penning a song that fits your mood… There are few voices as soulful as […]

Do Better Thursday: WAIT!!! Is Hip Hop Back!?!

3 February 2011

Shameless plug… I sell this on a shirt… Is Hip Hop back!?! Ok… I know it’s never left… but admittedly… I did leave it for a period… But it wasn’t my fault… So many of my favorite artists had done the same… Phonte dissolved Little Brother and begun making wonderful music with Foreign Exchange… Outkast […]

Black Music History “Giving Them Roses” – Day 3: Sonny Rollins

3 February 2011

The Saxophone Colossus A fixture in the jazz scene and community from the early fifties to present day… Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins was also a mainstay on Saturday mornings during my childhood… Two of his albums were in heavy rotation from my Pops collection… Rollins’ Saxophone Colossus (1956) is regarded as his best work and […]

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