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Best Live Albums of All-Time

Top Ten Live Albums

The live-album concept is simple. Studio recordings are most often where a songs are molded and coaxed into their final form. While the studio is a creative place, it can become a sterile environment. Once an artist takes those songs on the road, they begin to take on lives of their own. The live album is a document that ….this road traveled song.

1) Sinatra At The Sands

https://songwhip.com/frank-sinatra/sinatra-at-the-sands

2) Allman Bros Live at The Fillmore 1970

3) Woodstock

The moment of creation; the birth of the modern music festival and a record of who was who at the peak of rocknroll’s creative era. Hendrix, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young

4) Jimi Live At Monterey

https://songwhip.com/jimi-hendrix/live-at-monterey

Having recently returned from a U.K tour that had other famous guitar players selling their Fender Stratocasters after hearing and seeing him play, Jimi Live At Monterey was Hendrix’s first gig in the U.S. as leader. It’s a blistering record of a man and a trio in their prime.

5) The Last Waltz

https://songwhip.com/the-band/the-last-waltz

recorded and filmed in 1978, The Band , who played very important roles in Rock’s history is another take on the rock-doc format. Guests include….

7)Donny Hathaway live

https://songwhip.com/donny-hathaway/live

Donny Hathaway’s talents as an arranger, keyboard player and vocalist are showcased here in this live recording culled from two live shows , side one from The Troubador In Hollywood Ca, and side two from The Bitter End in Greenwich Village NYC, in 1971 and released in 1972. The album soulfully covers ‘what’s Going On” and “You’ve got a friend” and produces his own hits “ The Ghetto” and “Voices Inside My Head”.

8) Live Dead 1970

https://songwhip.com/grateful-dead/live-dead

9) Bob Marley Live 1975

https://songwhip.com/bob-marley-and-the-wailers/live

10) Keith Jarrett – Still Live

https://songwhip.com/keith-jarrett-trio/still-live

In 1986 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette toured fourteen cities over a twenty-six day span. Still Live was recorded in the middle of this tour in Munich on May ___ and released on vinyl …… It’s record of a trio in their prime, searching, taking chances, pushing the standard repertoire far beyond what the Brill buildings’ writers original intentions. There is true genius on this album, a phrase often associated with Mr Jarrett and for good reason.

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There is No Word for “Rhythm” in most Sub-Saharan Languages

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Post date June 13, 2022
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Rhythm and Rhythm

Many Sub-Saharan languages do not have a word for rhythm, or even music. Rhythms represent the very fabric of life and embody the people’s interdependence in human relationships.

Among the characteristics of the Sub-Saharan African is the simultaneous use of contrasting rhythmic patterns within the same scheme of accents or meter. This lies at the core of African rhythmic tradition.

The sounding of three beats against two is experienced in everyday life and helps develop “a two-dimensional attitude to rhythm”. Throughout Western and Central Africa child’s play includes games that develop a feeling for multiple rhythms.[

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African Drums

African drums

1-3 Aburukuwa: (Akukuadwo; Aburukura)The akukuadwo is a single-head membranophone of the Akan peoples of southern Ghana. It is a support drum used in the kete ensemble of the Akan peoples.

The drumhead of the akukuadwo is struck with two straight stick beaters, one in each of the drummer’s hands.

https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/1501

4 AKAN Article on AKAN drum

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/akan_drum

5 The Atumpan is a type of Bono talking drum.[1][2] Played in pairs, these drums provide the bass part in Adowa dance ensembles.

Construction and functionality

The body of the atumpan is made of wood, with a hollow interior. Its bottom is open, to increase its resonance. Its drumhead is made of animal hide that is stretched out to cover the top of the drum’s body. There are several pegs near the top of the drum’s body, which tension cords attached to them. These cords extend to the drumhead, holding it in place.[4] Most atumpans are about 25 centimeters (8 inches) in width, and almost 60 centimeters (22 inches) high.[3]

The atumpan is played either with one’s bare hands or L-shaped sticks.[4]

6) The BARA (Bambara: ߓߊ߬ߙߊ;[1] also called bendré)[2] is a spherical hand drum with a body made from a dried gourd or calabash, used in West Africa (primarily Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire,[2] and Mali).[2] Its single head is made of goatskin.[3] To make the drum, a dried gourd is cut on one end and a single head made of goatskin is stretched across the opening.[3] Bara drums come in various sizes, some quite large. The instrument is often used to accompany the balafon.[4]

The bara has been used in the music of the Malian musicians Yaya Diallo and Habib Koité.[5]

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Gigging Musicians

This monthly feature will profile professional musicians who earn a living with their art. From Cirque de Soleil band leaders to tech savvy software specialists.