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The ballad of Junior Parker
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New compilation chronicles output of this hugely influential African-American musician
published : 6 Jul 2021 at 04:00
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Train I ride sixteen coaches long, Train I ride sixteen coaches long, Well, that long black train carries my baby home …
The song Mystery Train, recorded on July 11, 1955, by Elvis Presley at Sun Studios in Memphis, is known to be an enduring classic . The song was released on the Sun label by owner and producer Sam Philips. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 77 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time .
The song was the B-side for the single, I Forgot To Remember To Forget, and the two songs charted on Billboard s national country music chart in 1955, enabling Presley to become known as country music star (he was already shaking up and promoting rock n roll).
Program #328 (May 23 at 8:00pm)
Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller. Ron has been featured as a leader in jazz festivals all over the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festivals and Winter Jazzfest, NYC.
Born in the Philippines, lived in many states as a kid, then settled in Harvard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, Ron was initially influenced by rock guitar greats like Jimmy Page, before falling under the spell of jazz and following the style and career of jazz guitar luminaries like Pat Metheny and George Benson.
Bob Porter, Jazz Producer and Broadcaster, Dies at 80
Hundreds of albums bore his name, notably reissues of classic material. And he helped make WBGO the biggest jazz radio station in the New York area.
Bob Porter at a 2018 Jazz at Lincoln Center event for the Newark radio station WBGO. He had been heard on the station since it first went on the air in 1979.Credit.Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times
April 22, 2021, 5:53 p.m. ET
Bob Porter, who as a record producer guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and who as a broadcaster helped build WBGO into the largest jazz radio station in the New York City area, died on April 10 at his home in Northvale, N.J. He was 80.