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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

step into the lounge!

Sunday, June 20, 2021 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

http://www.divavillelounge.org

Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Lift Every Voice and Sing	In My Prime	Absord Japan	Celebrating a belated Juneteenth
Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free	The Essential Nina Simone	Sony Legacy
Oscar Peterson	Hymn to Freedom	Night Train	Verve	Peterson wrote this in 1962 as a tribute to the civil rights movement
Dinah Washington o/ Hal Mooney	There'll Be a Jubilee	Dinah Washington In The Land of Hi-Fi	Emarcy
Max Roach Quintet v/ Abbey Lincoln	Freedom Day	We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite	Candid Records

Duke Ellington Orchestra v/ Ivie Anderson	Let's Have a Jubilee	The Complete 1932 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings	Mosaic
Louis Jordan	Juneteenth Jamboree	Let the Good Times Roll	Bear Family
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Emancipation Celebration	Black, Brown and Beige	Columbia
Josephine Baker	Speech at the March on Washington	1963 March on Washington		Baker was one of the few women allowed to speak at the March on Washington
Josephine Baker	C'est Lui	Head Over High Heels	Trikont

John Coltrane Quartet	Alabama	The Classic Quartet - Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings	Impulse!	written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham AL
Duke Ellington Orchestra v Mahalia Jackson	Come Sunday (aka Part IV)	Black, Brown and Beige	Columbia/Legacy
Nina Simone	Ne Me Quitte Pas	The Essential Nina Simones	Sony Legacy
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	Strange Fruit	Rare Live Recordings 1934 - 1959	ESP

Ray Charles	Lift Every Voice and Sing	The Dick Caveat Show		rec 1974
Harry Belafonte	Matilda	The Essential Harry Belafonte	RCA/Legacy
Hazel Scott	The Jeep is Jumpin'	Hazel Scott	EG Jazz
Billy Strayhorn	Lush Life	Lush Life	Red Baron Records	rare recording of Strayhorn singing his own composition

Ethel Waters	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue?	The Incomparable Ethel Watersm	Sony Legacy	the first popular recording about racist
The Four Harmony Kings	Ain't It a Shame	78"	Black Swan	this and the next 2 songs from Black Swan, the first Black owned and operated record label in the US
Alberta Hunter o/ Fletcher Henderson	Bring Back the Joys	Alberta Hunter Vol. 1	Document Records	Henderson was the musical director for Black Swan
Ethel Waters w/ Cordy Williams' Jazz Band	Down Home Blues	Down Home Blues (Original Recordings 1920-1921)	JazzAge	this ws Black Swan's most successful recording
Paul Robeson	St. Louis Blues	Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939	Warner Classics

Sam Cooke	A Change is Gonna Come	Keep Moving' On	ABKCO
The Impressions	People Get Ready	People Get Ready	Geffen
Aretha Franklin	Take a Look	Take a Look: Complete on Columbia	Columbia
Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	What's Going On	Uni/Motown
Stevie Wonder	Living for the City	Innervisions	Motown
Bob & Marcia	To Be Young Gifted and Black	Young, Gifted and Black	Sanctuary Records

Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddamn	Verve Jazz Masters 17	Verve