Tag: segregation

• Now Spinning: Sonny Rollins – Freedom Suite Plus

  

  A quiet Monday feels like the right atmosphere for some classic jazz, and it doesn’t get more classic than Sonny Rollins. As one of the titans atop the pantheon of American jazz, Sonny Rollins career featured many high points – from 1956’s genre-defining, hard-bop classic Saxophone Colossus, to multiple, surprisingly effective comeback reinventions in the…

  Box Full Of Records

  April 3, 2023

  Now Spinning

  Bebop, Brown V Board of Education, Charles Fox, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights music, Discogs, Dual Turntable, Empire Cartridge, Empire Scientific, EPI Speakers, Freedom Suite, Hard Bop, Jazz, Little Rock Nine, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Milestone, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Now Spinning, Radioshack Realistic, Record Digging, Saxophone Colossus, segregation, Sonny Clark, Sonny Rollins, Stereo Gear, Thelonious Monk, Turntable, Vinyl Me, Vinyl Me Please

• Now Spinning: Juke Boy Bonner

  

  One of the first suggestions I’d offer to any collectors of old blues records – always buy Arhoolie Records releases. Arhoolie Records was formed by a young blues aficionado Chris Strachwitz, who traveled to Texas as a young man to record Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb and many more, beginning with simple field recordings. From those…

  Box Full Of Records

  October 6, 2019

  Now Spinning

  Arhoolie Records, Blues, Blues Collection, Chris Strachwitz, Chuck Berry, civil rights, History, Houston, Jimmy Reed, Juke Boy Bonner, Mance Lipscomb, Now Spinning, Rare Blues, Rock Hill Nine, segregation, Texas Blues, The Promised Land, Vinyl Records