Career decide to do a christmas cd. If you are choosing traditional Christmas Songs, how do you put your own feel on a Christmas Song . You just do. I can explain it. , and it is my soul, it is my spirit, so thats what youre going to get. Im not trying to do what barbra did. Then when you do have yourself a merry little christmas, there is no other way to do it but the way i do it. Theres no other way to do it but the way you do it. Inis for you to be here november talking about a christmas project means that you must have done this sometime in the dead of summer. I did it in march. Ask how was about to you get the Christmas Spirit to a project when it is 80 degrees outside. Well, when you are going to do a christmas album or whatever you are going to do, you have to put your mind into it. So i had to put my mind and christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. To do aous, when i go project, i am serious about it, so i wrap my world around it. So it ha
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis just great charlie harkers reef but brilliant live comes to full focus in this important tome by cultural critic and jazz historian Stanley Crouch titled kansas city lightning, the life and times of Charlie Parker. Stanley crouch joins us now from new york. First, a look at the great Charlie Parker in concert, from 1951. They say music speaks louder than words. Tavis stanley, im glad to have you on. That missed our by asking why, given his huge impact, that so little has been written about Charlie Parker . A lot of what has been written is basically what they call urban legends these days. Which means exaggerations and fraud. Tavis why exaggeration and fraud about Charlie Parker . See, he provides for the average reader a lot of andhes about black people jazz musicians, about drugs, and people tend to gravitate towards those things. Book, itarted the actually realized through my mother and father, both of
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Mary j. Blige released her first album at the age of 21. It immediately went to the top of the charts, catapulting her into the limelight. My life, was named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Since then she has won nine grammys, sold 50 million records , but her latest is her first holiday cd, titled a mary christmas. With have a merry little christmas. And have yourself a merry ttle christmas now you are sounding good, looking good. Happy holidays to you. I could not wait to put it in, and as is my custom, i pull out the cover and want to read the liner notes. I started looking at the people you collaborated with on this. I needed it to be a masterpiece and something special. This is my first christmas album. I didnt want it to be, you know, just anything. I wanted to do something special, and i wanted all my fans to just be involved with it and love it. Tavis tell me abou
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