Peerless Quartette - Old Black Joe album flac

In The Days Of Old Black Joe. Written-By – James Brockman.

The Peerless Quartet.

When the Angelus Is Ringing. When the Angelus Is Ringing.

Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1853. Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-Dah! (1998), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by an African-American slave in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh. The song is not written in dialect

The Peerless Quartet was an American vocal group that recorded in the early years of the twentieth century. From about 1907, when they began to record for record labels other than Columbia, they were more widely known as the Peerless Quartet.

1908 Peerless Quartet Old Black Jo. p3. 1909 Steve Porter Flanagan At Vocal Teachers. 1909 Steve Porter Kennedy An Irishdutch Argument. 1913 Billy Golden Turkey In De Straw Victor. 1914 Ladies Quartette Little Alabama Coon Columbia. 1915 Alma Gluck Old Black Jo. 1916 Lyric Quartet My Dreamy China Lady. 1917 Orpheus Quartet Mammys Little Coal Black Rose.

The Columbia Quartette was more commonly known as the Peerless Quartet, led by tenor Henry Burr. His distinctive nasal voice gave the Peerless an easily identifiable tone. The blend and balance of the harmonized quartet is rich, providing us with an authentic taste of the music of the 1910s. Wild Cat Blues -Clarence Williams’ Blue Five (1923). John Coltrane viewed A Love Supreme as a deeply spiritual devotional work. The album begins with pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane quickly establishing the solemn mood. Tyner’s sustained opening chord and Jones’s gong sound simultaneously creating a reverberant wash that builds as Coltrane enters with a deft fanfare-like figure. The music continues to swell but then shifts as bassist Jimmy Garrison enters with the familiar four-note melody that will recur repeatedly throughout the work, including as a chant.