Dolphy was Jamaican - who knew?....

.....Certainly not me. Not that its surprising that a great musician has Jamaican connections, but I simply hadn't heard that before. Check out the sounds of Jamaican Dolphy & other great music makers all this week on Riffin'

RIFFIN’S RUNDOWN FOR WEEK 23/6/08, AT NEWSTALK 93FM, AT 8.35PM



STREAMING LIVE AT WWW.NEWSTALK.COM.JM




MONDAY: Cassandra Wilson, the singer, after a 20 year break from recording “standards”, has done so again, in a new album”Loverly”, and in her own inimitable fashion.


TUESDAY: Two other female singers, less well know than Cassandra Wilson-- Stevie Holland, and Joanna Pascale, serve the same muse of claiming and defining the music.


WEDNESDAY: Art Tatum’s piano prowess, unmantched to this day, has not dimmed in 50 years, as a specially recorded edition of “Piano Starts Here, Live At The Shrine” , reveals.

THURSDAY: Eric Dolphy, a shortlived, but brilliant musician, who was born in the United States of Jamaican parents. In 36 years, Dolphy was a singular voice, on the alto saxophone and bass clarinet.


FRIDAY: Dobet Gnahore, is Africa’s latest voice, a star on the rise. From the Ivory Coast, the riveting singer delivers songs in praise of African women, and calls on the continent to search for solutions to its problems, within.




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