Sunday, August 26, 2012

Mixtape: First Class


 


Oscar Brown, Jr., "Bid Em In": Third Track off Sin & Soul, 1960



Matana Roberts, "Libation for Mr. Brown," Fifth Track off Coin Coin, Chapter One, 2011





 The Fisk Jubilee Singers, "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Play," First Track off Smithsonian Folkways Records, 1955. 




Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, "See See Rider Blues," 1924





Bessie Smith's 1925 recording of W.C. Handy's 1912 "St. Louis Blues," with Louis Armstrong on Cornet.


Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit," 1939




Son House, "County Farm Blues," Recorded at the Library of Congress, 1941



Charlie Parker,"Yardbird Suite," 1946



Nina Simone, "Sinnerman," Off Pastel Blues, 1965



Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On," 1971