The Smiths – This Charming Man (Luis Leon Bootleg)

Richie Havens (Jan 1941 – April 2013)

A beautiful voice and rare man.

 

Aretha Franklin

It’s the Queen of Soul’s birthday today, so here she is covering Stephen Stills’ Love The One You’re With, from Live at Fillmore West (1971), one of the great live soul recordings; edged out, arguably, only by Otis Redding’s Live in Europe (1967). Anyway…

Big Mama Thornton and the Muddy Waters Blues Band

Happy birthday Nina Simone

The mighty, beautiful, glorious Nina…

Howlin’ Wolf – Going Down Slow

Donald Byrd (Dec 1932 – Feb 2013)

Billie Holiday, 1958

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough” – Billie Holiday

(Photographed at the d’Orly airport, Paris, by Jean-Pierre Leloir)

Now Miles Davis

(Via A Conversation on Cool)

Family Band – Moonbeams