'Him that I love, I wish to be free, even from me "

Iris in Paris

Hello Jazz Lovers,

Another Beautiful Day I Bahrain,

A Lot of my friends and fellow bloggers are talking about relationships and letting go, including me. Well today one of my Dearest Friends Alan from Down under, You know Australia, sent me this poem and I just thought it was beautiful. I am not going to speak of anything else because I don't want to take away from the Poems beauty. So Jazz lovers  enjoy.


'Him that I love, I wish to be free
even from me'


What a shame it is that some of us haven't heard this before.
It would have made things so much easier.
How far can you go?
It all makes sense now;
blinded by my desire to be close with someone.
I misread all the clues
that were there all along;
how can you expect to love
if you don't give freedom?

Absolute control won't make you calmer
it will make you paranoid;
and paranoia spreads quickly from you to me,
and it all starts making sense.
If you're prepared to do that,
what else are you ready to do?
I'd love to know,
but somehow I think it's better
if I don't find out.


Alan

It is the truth Jazzlovers.....Well Alans Poem started me to thinking of Dakota Staton, so these are my recommendations this week."The Album is the Late, Late Show" Misty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaXeMlu9Ug

I thought about you " Miss Dakota Staten Live"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlx1SrxVxG4&NR=1

Let Me off Up Town  From Dynamic Dakota

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qViOhKFD_g

And one more Shirley Horn with Miles Davis, "You Won't Forget Me" I love this Cut!!!Jazz at it's best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHVw4HGAHA&feature=related

Shirley Horn Playing "Blue in Green" By Miles Davis,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn51v_cMHCw&NR=1


Well Jazz lovers Until Next time,

Keep the Beat..

DW Jazzlover

September Birthdays and an Oboe and an Ex or as Dinah says September in the Rain

The Jardin des Tuileries Paris



Hello JazzLovers,

Another Beautiful Day in Bahrain.

Ah September! I came into being because of September!(I can not believe I didn't know what an Oboe was!)September is a very emotional month for me, I have to always reflect in September, you see Jazz Lovers my Mother and Father were born in September, and I am a Love Child!! No ( don't Go There) they were married when I was born, matter of fact they had been marrried 7 years before I was born and divorced 2 years after I was born but never fell out of love with each other.That is how I know I am a love child, ( Private confessions from both of them)that is an interesting weight to carry. What did they do take one look at this mystery they had produced and said we can't do this again! And jazzlovers belive me when I say I was a mystery to my Parents! (Ok to smile here)

As I said Jazzlovers this blog writes it's self, I can be thinking of writing something but when I start My head just goes somewhere else.I had planned to write!(News Bulletin Studio Kalid Has made Dubai Fashin Week!!!!)God is so good...My head is so full until I need to start another Blog!!!!I just got the call from Kalid.............In Dubai! http://studiokalid.blogspot.com/ and then you will understand, Aiwa!!!I have the biggist smile on my face...

Now where was I?Ah The Mystery, My Mother is September 12, My Father September 19, and My Lovely Sister September 19, and My Ex September 15, today! My Exxx times 2, September 4, and they are the only 2 exes I have ever truly loved, can someone explain this picture to me?..Ah That September!In The Rain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvB6rrnzDM8

Love is the stranges thing, ( as I said September is a very emotional month for me).My Exxx times 2 and I are the best of friends but we were friends before we became lovers,( I am having a fantastic time finding music to go with this one!)so this was a natural progression. But do I send a birthday message to the last ex?( because I am still having computer problems!!!)I have never loved anyone as much as these two people, and I do really only want the best for them..(but I can not stand a liar) (grown folks don't have to lie!Enough of that) But Dammit I still love! Maybe I am beginning to understand my parents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknEJf9cPeY

Well Jazzlover Until Next time ( I need to thinK)

A Little of old school, when I was about 15 years old I use to sneak into Club Matinee on weekend to hear this man! Enjoy Brooke Benton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4_k36Zu0g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4M2jVscymg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bK8wZCSgzw&feature=fvst

The Oboe is important! I will continue with that because it is!!!!

Keep the beat.

DW Jazzlover.

For some reason Jazzlovers Blogger is not allowing the links to activate! Help!

Bitter Sweet Memories of Home Town Greats and Family

Another Hot Humid and Beautiful Day In Bahrain

Hello Jazzlover,

It has taken me a little while to process my feeling about my cousin Claude, I always knew he was out there some where and I am sure he still is.Love U Cuz.

This has truly been a bittersweet time for me, bitter for losing him and sweet because of writing about it in my blog, I have found My Cousin his Sister...after all these years. I guess there is some joy in all things. I have also found anothe 1st cousin that we had lost touch with each other almost 20 years ago, that has been a true joy! LoJo and I have kept this computer hot playing katch up!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DFEOFHl0w

There will be more on that later, but I had been having serious trouble writing because of all the things going on in my head concerning my Fathers Family, I needed some healing time. ( Damn I almost Lumped up my Cornmeal mush!! I am making Hot tamale pie for dinner) But that is another story for another time...
Families are amazing!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0kSlORbAnQ&feature=related

As I have said this blog is finding it's voice,it's song,it's beat, and it's tempo so I am not surprised where it goes sometimes Jazzlovers and this one is no different..LoJo is back reading my blog and offers wonderful feed back. She was reading the one about home town talent and our greats like Phil Phillips, and instead of telling you about I am going to post her email to me on shared memories. I think by posting the letter in it's complete will help you to understand Bitter sweet memories. This blog is really about the music.
Here is the email: and I will be back at the end!!!Jazzlovers enjoy

Phil Phillips..... et al

The Sea of Love=when I hear that song I think about young lives lost and fortunes stolen. Phil ate in Miller's Cafe almost daily-of course, never on Sunday. He had a son who was an addict........don't know what happened to him. I was not far enough along in my own Christian journey to know that we were to try to rescue our brother's and sister's whenever possible.

I have seen many stars as Bubba Lutcher(Nellie's brother and local DJ as I know you remember) would bring them all to to the cafe to eat. I remember Otis Redding having red beans and rice a couple of weeks before he died in the plane crash. See this is why I don't understand why a landmark like Miller's Cafe was recently demolished by the city of LC. No one cares about our history. We can only preserve our memories in our minds. We do have pictures of the restaurant in the early years. My sister has them as she inherited the big house and all therein. We had a drag queen called Esquerita. Don't know if you remember that diva.

I am sure you remember the old Dixie Theatre. White folks have bought it and use it as their local playhouse. You know if they bought into that neighborhood that they have plans. They are going to get all that land for redevelopment. It has already started since they have flattened everything on our end of Enterprise Blvd. I wonder if the Cab Shack survived? Pryce's Rx did as far as I know.

Anyway, obviously I read your older blog. So much soul.

Music is Soul Pleasure


LoJo

And Jazzlovers This was my reply...

Cuz you brought tears to my eyes, and it is written so well now I know why I have not been able to write!! May I post your letter as this weeks blog? I think you said it sooo well!
And of course I remember Esqureita, and a Diva she was!!! They don't make them like that any more....Phil was also the Uncle of Cheryl, I know you remember her, she is my adopted sister, we grew up together! Small world...I know you remember Katy Webster , and I don't know if you knew Bubba Lutcher has a son by my stepfather's sister.
I think I will add some Nellie Lutcher to this blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GciyR3dyA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKTKemcIXI&feature=related

The amazing thing is Katy was to be on that plane,
Love D

Well Jazzlovers until next time Keep the beat.

Never try to explain love!!!


DW Jazzlover

Claude Purdy Thank you for your Gift Cuz

Rest in Peace My Dear Cuz..He Left here August 3 2009

Hello JazzLovers,

This is a bittersweet day here in Beautiful Bahrain..

Claude Purdy was my 1st Cousin, the only Son of my fathers youngest Brother,I only met 3 of my Fathers Brothers. I knew the oldest Brother ( Who I dearly loved)and Claude's Father, the youngest,( I will leave it at that).Those brothers I truly did not understand, but the oldest was a wonderful person, and I had the chance to spend a couple of great summers with he and his wife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6avX7ebkM

I didn't met Claude until I was in Jr.High 1957, the year he graduated high school. I t was at his High School Class Play (Boston High) that I first saw him. Claude was the lead and he was fantastic! I was fascinated by him. Oddly enough the reason I was at the graduation was not because he was graduating but because 2 of my Moms Nieces were graduating! (I Told you those brothers were intriguing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alglEMdXvxI

But that night I really amazed by his acting in that play( If anyone remembers what the play was please send it to me.)His energy level was fantastic, then after his graduation I have never seen him ever again, ( Yes I have tried to find him and only found information in 1997)Although trying to find my other cousins I found Eve and she had kept all the clipping of his climb to fame.

Claude became a Famous Director/Actor, traveled to New York, Paris and then on to the Penumbra Theatre as co-founder who was also instrumental in the career of August Wilson, who died October 2005. They were most noted for Claude Direction August Wilson's great plays about African American Culture. They are most noted for the following 9 plays set in different time periods.

( Thank you Wikipedia)

1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)
1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988)
1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985) - set in Chicago
1930s - The Piano Lesson (1990) - Pulitzer Prize[3]
1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)
1950s - Fences (1987) - Pulitzer Prize[3]
1960s - Two Trains Running (1991)
1970s - Jitney (1982)
1980s - King Hedley II (1999)
1990s - Radio Golf (2005)

I unfortunately Never had the pleasure of seeing any of his work and as I said I have not seen him since 1957. But there is an ache in my heart and I do grieve because I never had the chance to thank him face to face. You see Claude Jr,(As he is known in the family)is who was my inspiration to do better, he was the one that let me know I could, he was the one that let me know there was more out there, I just had to work for it...I did tell him in emails though he never replied I do know he got them and for that I am grateful. I actually sent one the day he died because he was on my mind!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlo8TJYZHqM

So Jazzlovers just know life is short and we really need to listen to the beat, and let people who are important to you, that you care.....Love is the greatest gift. If you want love then give love.

And if you are angry or upset about anything or any one !!Remember that on a highway to San Fransisco 50 years from to day who is going to give a damn?

Love is the answer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8sDz_V1uY

Thank you Cuz..

My Thoughts are with you Jackie( Jacquelyn)...and You Dear Jacqui Shoholm Purdy thank you for the replies...

Lets go out today JazzLovers with a little Louisiana and Katie...It is home...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdobY7wBXT4

Keep the beat Jazzlovers

DW Jazzlover...

Love and Woolworths Bargin Bin

A Carpet

Hello Jazz Lovers

A Beautiful Hot Dusty Day In Bahrain..

When I went out on my own for the first time in my late teens, I went to work in Downtown Houston, I lived in Downtown Houston and went to school in Downtown Houston and it was an exciting time to be young...I walked everywhere I went except on weekends to see my Mother...then I took the bus. I was discovering everything, the theater, the symphony, Jazz Clubs, Dance clubs, and shopping!!! And I discovered Della Reese ! and believe me I was hooked.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVF4W2DVzMs I had nothing but I had everything I needed...I was happy......

I have always loved Junk Shops and found an old portable Magnovox record player, took it apart and covered it with contact paper and was in heaven ! I know I drove my next room neighbor crazy with Della Reese on vinyl 33 1/3!!! This is also the time I discovered Woolworth's bargin bin, record albums were 1 dollar and some 3 for a dollar, (some of those albums are worth a fortune now)I bought any cover that looked interesting, and of course the people I knew, even Areatha was there...I found a copy of Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington which had been issued under Columbia Records in 1964. It is still one of my favorites. Here are a couple of cuts from that album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kXW1dIFS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDTbwLvaA2I

Then Jazz lovers I found this from 1960 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDFpC8Qpzc&feature=related, did I mention that I was a hopeless Romantic at that time(I still am)so I was truly into love songs as I waited to fall in love....Aretha did some wonderful work at Columbia it is sad it did not get the reconition it should have, but now is what's important. This next song I played over and over and over , I am sure if any of my friends at that time ever here these songs today, especially this one I know they think of me I am sure I drove them crazy!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XKisuzJJKQ Cissy Houston is cutting up in the background!Aretha really worked it before going to Atlantic and soaring to current fame and this next song is what really set it off!!!!....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyolMNsN0Ig, but I was in love with the flip side, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAujPhoZyJo. Both sides went to number one!!!

The wonderrful thing about shopping in Woolworth's bargin bin is that I discovered some fantastic singers, This next Lady I bought just because I liked the cover of the album and boy was I surprised!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLC9PnefeEI, We were moving into the 70's and Camille Yarbrough "But It Comes Out Mad" from the album "Iron Pot Cooker" released in 1975 stayed on the player it seems forever...I have just reordered it on CD..This I truly recomend you get this one Jazzlovers>>>It was issued on Vanguard Records.. I must say here that there are some very cutting edge cuts on this album that are not posted here but well worth hearing. Here is another cut from the album...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg1oh45n5iI&feature=related

This whole CD now is very thought provoking, highly recommended...OK Just one more!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ugjXmsOpks

Another Album I discovered in Woolworth's bargain bin was Zulema 1972, "If This World Were Mine" became my new favorite and I listened to this Album for hours and still Love it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROa75lQ4GE&feature=related The other cut I was was mesmerized by was This one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XX9j9AZ7Og&feature=related If This Child of Mine..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wfxq4FSF0&feature=related A Whiter Shade of Pale 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D990bd8HTEU&feature=related 1973 Giving Up

.

As I said JazzLovers This was a special time in my life, and writing this blog brings all my friends and happy times back into my life! So enjoy!!

P/S I also found and discovered Gill Scott- Heron In that Bin!!!!It was a wonderful time to be young and set my adventure into exploring new music for life! so enjoy this new journey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0&feature=related

Until Next time Jazzlovers

Keep the beat.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hCQcrfg28&feature=related

Love feels better than hate.

DW JazzLover

P/S An Interview with James Moody,For My Bahrain readers, He will be here in Bahrain 10 August 2009 at The Cultral Center. Check it out Jazzlovers

E.Lynn Harris 20 June 1955 - 23 July 2009 R.I.P

A Day in Bahrain.

Hello Jazzlovers

My Favorite Writer Died Yesterday, Mr E. Lynn Harris, I really admired his writing and his life.

I met him years ago in a Houston After Hours Dance Club, and he was an energetic young man at the time, and judging from the comments on other blogs he never lost that. May he rest in Peace, He will be missed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vf3ZE7CLg0&feature=related

One of his best works was his auto biography " What Becomes of The Broken Hearted"it was truly inspired, it erased all excuses the masses use today to convince themselves they can not make it in life because of their past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90wUItXn62s He did not let life get him down..

He wrote of real life and self deception, of how society will attempt to make you live a lie, in order to maintain their own comfort zone in their own lies...E. Lynn Expossed the inside of why people need self decption.. Everyone in his books were human, with human frailties that made them act the way they did, non were evil, just misguided by our society...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhUm2fUT6mw&feature=related

No other author except for Brother James Baldwin has been able to expose so much raw emotion and realisim in each of his charaters in every one of his offerings...In E.Lynn"s Offering, just as in Brother Baldwin you had no choice but to see yourself.. And for that I am grateful...Now a way to say goodbye..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvZOoktQU8

Todays Blog is my tribute to a wonderful Humanist, Mr. E. Lynn Harris R.I.P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSu6UtVImrQ

Well JazzLovers if you have not read any of his books please start with " Invisible Life" and work your way through all eleven books to the last one "Basket Ball Jones"

Until next time Jazzlovers,

Keep the beat .

DW Jazzlover

Man In The Mirror a Way to Say Goodbye

A Canal At Night

Hello Jazz Lovers,

An at Home day in Bahrain

I have been trying to write for a week now, but it just would not come out. Nothing felt right,

now I know why. This blog writes it's self and this is what it wanted to say today..

I have just finished watching the Michael Jackson Memorial and it was well done and very

movingly dignified. While watching it I remembered something I had written in July 1993, while

visiting Amsterdam (Yes My favorite city) I do a lot of thinking when I am there.

But tonight the poem I wrote came back to me and I have no idea of why I wrote it. But today

Seemed like a good time to publish it as a tribute to Michael.

WE Were All Children Once

So many things are done "for the children".

We were all children once .

Look at us today!

Good Believers yet!

Yet a child lays hungry in the streets!

Old Folks dying alone!

We were all children once.

What are you teaching yours?

What you say or what you do?

We were all children once yet,

What is true ?

What we do or what we say we do?

I will never me say a bad thing again about,

Michael Jackson.

Dangerous---Will you be there?

It's a shame,

We Were all children once,

We are all Gods children yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGeZYednWtI

I am making my change today, I am going to keep the promise I made July 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0keS8XJchU&feature=related

Thank you for helping me to grow a little more Michael, I am stepping out on faith.

Michael no matter what you think of him was the Greatest Entertainer of All Time.

Well Jazz Lovers I just had to say it.

Until next time Keep The beat.

DW JazzLover.