When Duke Ellington made a record for just one person—Queen Elizabeth tedgioia.substack.com/p/when-duke-el… The Queen, for her part, was still talking about the Duke some 60 years later.
This is a charming story in so many ways.
A quarantine favorite - @fayewebstersyoutube.com/watch?v=GQ9wrk…
"...conveying an elegant sort of melancholy romanticism in which her voice projects raw vulnerability but the music is very clean and composed." -- @perpetua
RIP Tony Allen, the drums behind Fela's earth-shattering groove, the Clyde Stubblefield of Afro-Beat but much more. His evolution continued to the very end, experimenting with jazz, house, and the fusion of The Good, Bad and the Queen. Rest in polyrhythm. youtube.com/watch?v=tj1wpN…