ZINGOMA!

"The music you created within me is in your design left within me by each impression made, each touch, every look into my eyes and each shared moment together or apart..." ~ Gregory

Music of lovemaking is its own sound! Loving someone without lovemaking is its own reward!

The Music Created Sound.

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

Cello played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1957 film, 

"Love in the Afternoon".

Cello held by Svetlana by Foto Alve 

taken October 3, 2018 near Dornberk, Slovenia.

Sound is interpreted as an audible activity. It may be, and is just that, but the silence of movement is captured here. The young woman, Svetland, without clothes, feels all of life's elements: fire, water, air and Earth, our Mother, in the element of sound, touch and movement within stillness. There is a dance here. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/5/18

What He Said.

By Debashish Bhattacharya

"If god would like me to stop playing I would stop. Until then, I'm unstoppable.....

The purpose of life is to live the life. The purpose of life is to learn our life all the way from the beginning to the end. I feel the life force in the music which inspires the life force in the life which inspires the musicians inside the music."

Guitar Chords (for me)

Guitar chords
"The D diminished on this list is wrong, by the way. You should have a finger on the third fret of B (second) string to make a true D Diminished at that position." - Michale Kasprzak 

Top of Metal



Maria Brink the lead singer of the band , IN THIS MOMENT-

 Maria Brink has become one of modern metal’s most popular females.

 

Music in ART



Rhythm Child by Lloyd DeBerry
 http://www.deberryart.com/rhythm-child/ 

 

Of MILES, the depth of ...

"Talk To You"

By John Turk

"Miles (Davis) really pissed me off one night. I went over to "The Blackhawk" in San Francisco. This is one of my trumpet idols. He played the head of the song and then sat at the bar - totally disappointedly. Everybody has their night, I guess that was one when he just wasn't inspired.

"I didn't get to see him in person but Louie Armstrong was the best cause he could play. If it wasn't for Louie there wouldn't be jazz as we know it. His sense of rhythm, the notes that he used to talk to you. To me his music is spiritual, the way he talks to you through that trumpet."

*excerpt of my radio interview with JT from yesterday's broadcast of the JFS on PowerTalk 1210 
 Jake D. Feinberg

 

BLACK MUSIC!

Motherlandart.net



African art - Music to my Soul

The bassist is gonna rock and sway and swing while sitting in the pocket swinging with African drummers of his memory in the timbre of his Being echoing what once was the daily life he would've had had his ancestor not been captured and bought to the shoreline of the Americas. 

"Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 2.23.14


February 22, 2014 ·

 

Symba "HEY YOU"

Looking for some documents I ran across some charts that Al Johnson wrote for SYMBA. This chart is a Cello part for the song "HEY YOU" that did pretty well on the Billboard Hot 100 singles.
It was a pleasure to be in the recording studio to see the magic from Al's mind transform into music.

Click on the link to hear
HEY YOU......Rest in Peace Al.. - Michael Zakee Jones wrote for DC Legendary Musicians 

https://youtu.be/kpH9AzP_P5o ‪#‎DCLM

composer Al Johnson



composer Al Johnson's Cello part for the song song "HEY YOU" that did pretty well on the Billboard Hot 100 singles in the 1970's.

 

The Songs We Sing to each other . . .

Black man Black woman lovers of their music
photographer unknown 

Interviewed: Herb Albert

Louis Armstrong

 

Close My Eyes

By a Herb Alpert 


"I have a classical background. I studied classical music for 12 years. Then, all of a sudden, I heard Louis Armstrong and Miles, Clifford Brown and Chet Baker and I wanted to do some of that. I wanted to close my eyes and just play whatever came out. When you're playing classical music you're interpreting the music through the composer. Not only the notes but above the notes he has how he wants it played (loud, soft etc). You don't really have a chance to be creative. You have to be creative through the eyes of the composer. When I started playing my music I started copying my favorite musicians. I could play a little bit like Louie, all the guys that I liked. After awhile I realized, "who really wants to hear that?" They've already done it. That was my "ah-ha" moment. I had to come up with my own voice, my own style, my own way of doing it if I was ever going to succeed in that business.

"When I met the great Sam Cooke I learned a lot of lessons. He didn't know he was giving me lessons but I was watching how he approached everything. He was a great artist and a genius. He came out of "the gospel field" and everything he sang was meaningful."

There's two groups of musicians; especially improvisational musicians. There are the musicians that are playing the right notes. They play high and low, all the right notes and chords. They have everything going but you're listening to them and you're staring at the wall wondering why it's not getting to you. Then they're the musicians who are searching for the right notes. Guys like Miles, Coltrane, Chet, Louie and Coleman Hawkins. They didn't care if you liked it or not they were just playing stuff that was coming from a very deep place.

One of things I'm really thinking about these days is that jazz needs a renaissance. We need the new Miles coming out here. The new guys who are going to push it forward. To play the song and take a chorus or take three choruses and let the piano player do it and give the bass player a chance to play I think is old stuff."

Excerpt from my interview with Herb Albert from today's (8.16.15) broadcast of the Jake Feinberg Show 

John Coltrane 

JayLove's I Wanna Make Passionate Love Part 2

boots worn by a young woman

cartoon courting

Song Changes

Girl by John Nevarez

Many times songs have changed me through modulations from one key to another lifetime within a lifetime of experiences in a moment, a twinkling of an eye, a thrust of moving energies in the force of a song that told the story of who someone I didn't understand was. The songs were plenteous. They came from different people's tribes I knew not the language of or the custom that supported the structure of their composition. But, the singers like Oum Kalthoum and the late great Celia Cruz changed how the world physically felt and changed the way it felt being in the world as a man listening to two women from Egypt and Cuba singing the world they lived and saw. It is like being a part of a matrix of thought not your own that has not set you apart and said, 'Go home.'

"Have I ever had a song change the way I see the world?"

"Yes, I have." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.27.15



Preservation series by Blake Little

 

IN the mountains

"When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang her glory in the wilderness; and she drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones." - Kahlil Gibran, poet philosopher 



Ileana

Indian beauty of Ileana in red gown 2

Pristine Qualities Abound

Michelle Pfeiffer sitting comfortably in a chair!!!!

Fascinating! If one were to think in terms of musical frequencies emitted by each planet in a specific sign, a person's horoscope would make a specific kind of harmony or music. Then, when brought together with others (people or even planets that continue to move through time), the music would be either enhanced or become cacophonic. In fact, the music is constantly encouraged to adapt and rearrange itself to fit the stronger pattern. 

Johannes Kepler (1561-1630) spoke convincingly of the harmony that permeates the universe, extending the work of Pythagoras and the theme of "music of the spheres". Pythagoras defined music "as the perfect union of contrary things, as unity in multiplicity, or accord in discord." Indeed, music does not only coordinate rhythm and modulation, but imposes order on the whole system. Pythagoras discovered that the pitch of a musical note changed if the length of a piece of string was stopped half way along. This created an octave that produced the same quality of sound as the note produced by the unstopped string, but it vibrated at twice the frequency. The Pythagoreans used music to heal the body and elevate the soul. In ancient cosmology the planetary spheres ascended from Earth to Heaven like the rungs of a ladder, with each sphere said to correspond to a different note on a grand musical scale. 

Traditional astrology recognizes 5 significant relationships based on the 12-fold division of the zodiac signs, their significance being derived by analogy with the ratios of the musical scale. Thus the conjunction is equal to 2 notes played in unison, dividing the circle into the ratio 1:2. Not confining himself to zodiac signs alone, Kepler looked into the theory of harmonics and extended the analogy of the musical scale. He alerted astrologers to several new aspects, such as the highly creative quintile and biquintile series, as well as the sesqui-quadrate. 3 laws of planetary motion: Kepler is most famous for formulating his 3 laws of planetary motion, which made a fundamental break with astronomical tradition and superseded the ancient Ptolemaic concept of a spherical universe with an epicyclical motion (around the Earth at the centre). 

In 1609, in Astronomia Nova ("New Astronomy"), Kepler announced in his first law that the orbits of planets were elliptical, not circular. In his second law he stated that the speed of a planet varied at different stages of its orbit. His third law was published in 1618 in Harmonice Mundi ("Harmony of the Worlds" - adding to Pythagoras' theme of the music of the spheres). The third law established that there was relationship between a planet's distance from the Sun and the time it takes to complete an orbit.

from the album ANCIENT WISDOM, HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE, UNIVERSAL TRUTH.



Lifting The Veil

"The mystery of sound." 

BLACK MAN BLACK MUSIC BLACK WOMAN

Black music evolved every genre it touched, or was touched by. The relationship between Creator and Creation is told within the genius and genesis of African music. It is embodied within the women who birth the songs and the singers, whose hips, and thighs are the cadence and the clavé centering the polyrythms through the tangle of pubic hairs to the core, the essence of birthed energies that detangle the contradictions of those who conquered Africans and Africa without the fore knowledge of the deep spiritual powers embedded within the Earth from realms the white people are glimpsing now through science's lenses.

The African woman naked is music, and Life. The African man is music, and Life. Two combined forces of Nature tamed by no one. Contained by no one. If you need to believe it is contained it will appear so, but Africa's soul belongs where it needs to be creating new life. This is the soul of Africa, and her children. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2013



 

2 Artists

Rabisking

by Iván Slavinsky

by Zhaoming Wu

The Songs 'SHE' Wrote

MAGIC is Powerful

"Strong stories we've told. The songs we've heard implied by the women pulling us towards them are strummed, it is said, or sung without words, meant without malice, and accomplished without effort. Our training, what we believe, and what we feel entitled to determine how we survive the onslaught of sensations. Being a man, a strong man is an achievement. The right woman makes it possible to be a good man, a great man, and the right man for the times!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.14.13

taken from the gallery of
 Sanya Sinclair
on Dec. 15, 2012

a DREAM

The fine scent of a moment

Bianca Jurca
April 13, 2013

What a beautiful woman you are. Che bella sei! 

April 12, 2013

KEYS OF HOPE

Meka Arpége of the group  Meka Arpége & Barshaun

In promotion of their album in November 2012:


TwW: How does Keys of Hope fit into your own musical vision?

Meka: If you listen, Keys of Hope is about going for your dreams without being afraid, and for me that's a perfect fit.

The album premieres 1.13.13
http://theworldwaiting.com/

The Story of Barshaun

November 5, 2012 in Blog, Story of the Month, The World Waiting

“People don’t want to hear fake stuff. They want real life.”

It’s a simple but profound message that punctuates and flows through the music of Barshaun, a man who emerged from incarceration and on the run from the law to one of San Diego’s premiere hip-hop artists and now — collaborator on Keys of Hope.

Reared in Chicago under the tutelage of a musically talented and commercially successful father, Barshaun often found himself with a mic in his hand belting out song after song at the kitchen table. The inevitable influence of rap and hip hop eventually shifted the focus off his dad’s throwback style.

“It wasn’t until I went to school to study studio recording engineering did I truly appreciate everything my dad taught me about music,” he says.

Three music schools and many bouts of trouble later, Barshaun eventually fell onto the wrong side of the law and into the arms of multiple incarcerations. His time in jail was not entirely anti-music, though:  Barshaun recalls hacking together a tape recorder out of a cassette player by reversing its direction —  then using it to lay down some tracks with his cellmates to pass the time.

At some point between his rock and hard place with the law, Barshaun made a break for his freedom and, as he says, “went on the run and laid low.” He traveled from state to state, city to city, unable to secure a real job (for obvious reasons) but always working on “independent music hustles” to help people out around the neighborhoods he skipped through.

When he found San Diego, Barshaun immediately took to its year-round lighter (than L.A.) crowds, warm weather, beautiful women and “practically-legal weed.” By this time, too, he discovered his preference for live performances over the solitude of the recording studio.

“I’m a real believer in the power of attraction, and when I got to San Diego, I saw myself being a successful musician here.”

Now, years later, Barshaun’s vision has manifested not only into his own recording studio but also a live band — Legacy Pack — which recently opened for Public Enemy and Mos Def.