This BLACK MUSIC MONTH‼️‼️‼️💯💯💯

And the news is out June 2023… the realest musician is in the building.‼️‼️‼️🥳🥳🥳🥳💽💽💽💽💽💽 and it sells sooooomuchhhhh that you have no choice beyond lauding him simple. Pawn up ‼️‼️‼️🇦🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 D.T

I'm guessing you're a young person, but I grew up with Motown, James Brown, Muddy Waters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Jackson Five and Stevie Wonder. We've been doing a Blues thread on here, but no Funk or Black Celebration music threads. For being a small minority in America, Blacks have contributed around 80% of music culture, from the Blues to Jazz to Rock and Roll to Rap and Hip Hop. Slim Harpo, James Cotton, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Diz, Coltrane, Bird, Hendrix, The Duke, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson...the list is endless. Herbie Hancock, Ray Brown, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon....

Black Violin - Gypsy

Not sure what you want on here, Idontfailme, but we'll fill it up all day long with great Black Musicians.

I don't even like tap dance and this is great. Bill Bailey was a contemporary of Bill Bojangles Robinson and Pearl Bailey's brother. I like watching Gregory Hines, but it gets old quick. I think you have to be there.

Then there are White Black Musicians.

Like Dr. John!

Nothing as powerful as a mass gospel choir.

Oh Freedom! - The Golden Gospel Singers

Tapping is a lost art.

I like Charlie Pride. He was a country singer from way back, he made really good music & was one of the superstars of country. He had many #1 hits.

The Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz Fest was always rockin. Saw these guys several times. There used to be five?

We're not hearing from the OP so I guess we can fill this up. WE WANT THE FUNK! Get about the Funk....

Nothing to do with Chess or great Black musicians, but the first man to the North Pole was a Black Man. Mathew Henson was Peary's right hand man and without him they would never have made it all the way. Henson was the toughest, most knowledgeable Explorer of the 20th Century and because of his skin color he doesn't get this recognition. He was far ahead of Nansen and Amundsen and Scott and Shackleton and Peary. Combined.

There's controversy over who was actually first, but he wrote that he went ahead of Peary, pretending to not realize he was first on top of the world, with his two Inuit companions. Peary was riding the sledge and was fuming mad when he got there. Fascinating history. Henson's diary is an ebook on YouBube and I believe it's him narrating. And I'd bet he could sing like Paul Robeson.

(There's only one movie I've found about Henson, Glory and Honor, a Hallmark release which is pretty much unavailable. Delroy Lindo and Henry Czerny, 1998.

Spike Lee, please do the movie.)

After that, there's Mahalia.

Robeson was one heck of a guy. I wonder if he ever got together with Malcolm X?

"Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round,
turn me 'round, turn me 'round,
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round
I'm gonna keep on a walkin', keep on a-talkin',
Marching up to freedom land."

Frank “Sugar Chile” Robinson - Numbers Boogie 1951

Woh! Sugar Chile is great. Where did you find him? Came up on a Robinson search.

Bob Marley never smiled in his promotional pics because he considered that what he was doing was too serious for laughter. He knew that music could raise the Third World up. I saw him on posters all over Mexico, and I imagine it's the same in many Third World countries. He is their Savior. If you didn't show up for practice on time you were out of the band. He was more strict than Willy.

This is the Anthem of the Repressed.

Can't talk about Africa without the best song ever written by people who had never been there. White people, I think?

Hugh Masekela, 1939-2018, was one of the most influential African musicians ever. "The Father of South African Jazz".