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For his previous book, the fun and informative "Anatomy of a Song," Marc Myers talked to musicians and producers about how some combination of experimentation, accident, talent and inspiration led to such classic records as "My Girl," "Proud Mary" and "Ramblin' Man."
A huge box set looks back on Washington, DC's, Black music.
Matthew Alec & The Soul Electric – Cleveland Time (Cleveland Time): “Cleveland Time marks the first album release from the group that features Matthew Alec (tenor saxophone and EWI), Brian Woods (piano, keyboards, organs, plus vocals on “Give What You Take” and “Baby You Got Me”), Steven Forest Sanders (guitar, plus vocals on “Enigma Man”), Jared Lees (bass), Jeremiah Hawkins (percussion, plus drums on “Baby You Got Me”), and Leon Henault (drums). The album also features special guests Tom ‘Bones’ Malone (trombone and horn section on “Cleveland Time”), MINUS THE A...
Decades of history, resilience and pride live at the intersection of 5th Street NE and East Tudor Street. Known to many as Guestâs Corner, the neighborhood was a bustling hub for the Black community in Paris dating back to the 1920s when Paris was segregated and Black residents and business owners founded a place for themselves in an often hostile environment. âWe called it âLittle Black Paris,ââ said Mary Desmond, who spent her youth at Guestâs Corner. Paris native Elbert Desmond, Maryâs husband of 65 years, said the land was gifted to the community by a bu...
Growing up in Compton in the 1960s, Deborah Swan always looked forward to visits from her grandfather, Leon Hefflin Sr. A handsome, dapper man who wore a suit and a hat, Hefflin was a perpetual tinkerer. He had built her brother's bunk bed and created an aromatic tincture, Leon's Foot Ointment. "He smoked a pipe and was very quiet. He never bragged about himself," Swan recalls. If he had been inclined to do so, he would've had plenty to say. Hefflin was a dreamer, a serial entrepreneur, a breaker of color barriers and the producer of the Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing annual music festival...