A Valentine's Day interpretation of Beyonce's XO by Nikki Yanofsky

This is the first time Beyonce has ever been mentioned here, and it is not to feature Beyonce herself. It is to feature a wonderful young jazz artist named Nikki Yanofsky of Montreal, Canada.

Nikki has a long history of singing classic jazz standards of legends like Ella Fitzgerald. In 2006, at age 12, she became the youngest artist to ever headline at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Most recently, now age 20, Nikki has been making music that crosses over into pop, produced by Quincy Jones. (See additional links below). For today, she recorded a special live Valentine's Day jazz interpretion of Beyonce's song titled XO. Enjoy!

Nikki Yanofsky performs a jazz interpretation of Beyonce's song title XO

See and hear other songs by Nikki at:

http://www.musicload.com/2013/09/something-new-from-nikki-yanofsky.html

http://www.musicload.com/2012/02/happy-18th-birthday-to-nikki-yanofsky.html

http://blog.musictelevision.com/2011/09/nikki-yanofsky.html

http://www.musicload.com/2013/06/allen-stone-nikki-yanofsky-perform-ray.html

Connect direct with Nikki Yanofsky at NikkiYanofsky.Com

Nicky Thomas performs Is It Because I'm Black? (Live at Edinburgh Music Festival in Scotland - 1973)

The song "Is It Because I'm Black" was originally written by Syl Johnson, Glenn Watts and James L. Jones. Here is another heavy heavy performance of the song by the late Nicky Thomas, who had much success as a reggae artist in the 1970's.

Nicky Thomas performs Is it because I'm black? (Live at Edinburgh Music Festival in Scotland - 1973)

Click the following link to buy the vinyl remake of Nicky Thomas' record titled LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE at Trojan Records: http://www.trojanrecords.com/news/2011/08/classic-nicky-thomas-album-now-on-sale

If you have never heard the original version of Is It Because I'm Black by Syl Johnson, here it is:

A little more love for Lady (the band)

Lady features vocalists Nicole Wray and Terri Walker

Must give some love with one more plug for some excellent soul artists that made our year whole last year...

With a thick old school R&B sound living and making it in the here and now, soul divas ‎Terri Walker and Nicole Wray created a new duo that they call Lady.

Hopefully you too will love how the band and their label have made Lady's music and remixes available in WAV, MP3, CD and Vinyl LP's directly from Lady's page at Truth & Soul Records.  I personally love buying WAV files because they sound so much better than MP3 files, basically being the same quality as the CD without the burden the Disc. It's nice that the band and the label offer WAV as well as the VINYL :)

SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS - BUY MUSIC DIRECT FROM ARTISTS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE RECORD LABELS WHENEVER POSSIBLE

Here is one more, a live take of Lady backed by Lee Fields and The Expressions on 88.1 KDHX-FM in St. Louis, Missouri

"Money" Live at on KDHX


Hear more tasty handpicked tracks by Lady at: MusicLoad.com/2013/08/lady.html

Great Performances from Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival

Photo of Eric Clapton and Keith Richards performing at
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 - Madison Square Garden
(c) Madison Square Garden, L.P.

Below are just a handful of excellent full length songs and very tasty performances pulled from the Eric Clapton's most recent Crossroads Guitar Festival of 2013.  In fact, the DVD's from each of the four Crossroads Guitar Festivals held so far are all incredibly well done and worth the watching time and time again.  Eric Clapton handpicks phenomenal upcoming as well as well established greats, the best of the best, to share the stage with he and his musical peers.

The first festival was in 2004 and has occurred every three years through to 2013 so far. The festival benefits the The Crossroads Centre, Antigua. The centre was founded by Eric Clapton in 1997 to provide quality, affordable treatment for alcohol and other drug dependencies to a community that greatly needed, but lacked such a facility. This 32-bed centre, located on the island of Antigua, has become recognized as an international Centre of Excellence for addiction treatment.

Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In


Eric Clapton and Keith Richards - Key To The Highway

Eric Clapton - Got To Get Better


Eric Clapton with The Allman Brothers Band performing Why Has Love Got To Be So Sad
 

Connect driect with Eric Clapton at EricClapton.Com

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Bob Marley and the Wailers - Trenchtown Rock - Live at the Rainbow in 1977

Bob Marley - Live at The Rainbow Theatre - London England June 2, 1977
Photography by Adrian Boot

Excellent concert footage of Bob Marley and the Wailers performing Trenchtown Rock, live at the Rainbow Theatre in London, England.


Connect direct with the official Bob Marley website at BobMarley.Com

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