Yesterday in Dead Musicians ♪♫ - August 16 08-16: Loyset Compère Orlando Consort - Bach Goldberg Landowska - Elvis Presley Vegas 1974 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Max Roach +4 Newport 1518 – Loyset Compère (Franco-Flemish composer) 1748 – Pier Giuseppe Sandoni (Italian composer, harpsichordist & organist) 1786 – Henri-Jacques de Croes (Belgian composer & violinist) 1799 – Vincenzo Manfredini (Italian composer, harpsichordist & music theorist) 1831 – Eduard Brendler (German-born Swedish composer) 1870 – Edmund Passy (Swedish pianist, composer & organist) 1910 – Charles Lenepveu (French composer & teacher, winner Grand Prize, 1866 Prix de Rome) 1929 – Frank Van der Stucken (American composer & conductor, founder of Cincinnati) 1938 – Robert Johnson (American blues singer, songwriter & guitarist) 1944 – Roman Padlewski (Polish composer, pianist, musicologist & music critic) 1945 – Nico Richter (Dutch composer) 1959 – Wanda Landowska (Polish-born French harpsichordist) 1965 – Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky (Russian composer) 1972 – John Barnes Chance (American composer & percussionist) 1977 – Elvis Presley (American rock, country & gospel singer, actor & guitarist) 1984 – György Kósa (Hungarian composer) 1988 – Milton Adolphus (American pianist & composer) 1992 – Mark Heard (American folk-rock singer-songwriter, guitarist/mandolinist & producer) 1995 – Bobby Debarge (American R&B singer & songwriter, Switch) 1997 – Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Pakistani Sufi Qawwali singer) 2005 – Vassar Clements (American jazz & bluegrass violinist) 2005 – Vicky Moscholiou (Greek pop & entechno singer) 2007 – Max Roach (American jazz drummer & composer) 2008 – Ronnie Drew (Irish folk singer & guitarist, The Dubliners) 2008 – Dorival Caymmi (Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor & poet) ****************************************************************************** Loyset Compère (Metronome, 1994) Orlando Consort 1. Omnium bonorum Plena 2. Ave Maria, gratia plena 3. Ne vous hastem pas (mp3): http://www.multiupload.com/DXBIDE8VDQ ***************************************************** Johann Sebastian Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Victor, 1945) Wanda Landowska, harpsichord Recorded June, 1945, New York 1. Aria: Sarabande; Variations 1–15 2. Variations 16–30; Aria da capo (vbr mp3): http://www.archive.org/download/J.S.BachGoldbergVariations/J.S.BachGoldbergVariations_vbr_mp3.zip ***************************************************** Elvis Presley: Black Angels in Vegas 1974 (bootleg, 2 discs) August 30, 1974 (midnight show), Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, NV "This is a recently unearthed, high-quality first-generation soundboard recording of a chatty, funny, loosey-goosey, pill-popping, karate-chopping '74 Elvis. This show also features what is likely the only recorded instance of The King saying "fuck you" to an audience member. Now if that ain't worth the price of admission, what is?" (mp3) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFU9ANBR ***************************************************** Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: Supreme Collection (Jaro Medien, 1990) 01 Haq Ali Ali 02 Kamli Wala Mohammed 03 Data Ke Ghulamon Ko 04 Mangte Hain Karam (mp3): http://www.mediafire.com/?h37ci7bpowokqmb#1 ***************************************************** Max Roach +4 at Newport (Mercury/Emarcy, 1958) 1) Intro by Max 2) La Villa 3) A Night in Tunesia 4) Deeds Not Words 5) Minor Mode 6) Tune Up 7) Love For Sale Booker Little - trumpet George Coleman - tenor saxophone Ray Draper - tuba Art Davis - bass Max Roach - drums (mp3): http://rapidshare.com/files/372046735/Max_Roach___4_at_Newport.zip ***************************************************** http://yesterdayindeadmusicians.blogspot.com/