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Tim Warfield
Tim Warfield - One For Shirley (2008) "Tenor saxophonist Tim Warfield may think of himself as a hard-bop man, but he has a soft spot for the ladies, specifically, the women of the Hammond B3 organ. For Warfield’s fifth album, that means Shirley Scott. The late Scott (she passed in 2002) was part of Philadelphia’s fine heritage of organists, which also included Trudy Pitts, Charles Earland and Jimmy Smith. But the woman whose Prestige label output is still the instrument’s rarest treasure (somebody get all of Scott’s albums back in print!) was as attuned to the inspirational melodies of goodly gospel and muddy blues in her output as she was bebop’s dense harmonies." - A.D. Amorosi - jazztimes.com

Links: Website, Wikipedia, Messiah College, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and DC Bebop page.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: ONECD

Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias - Ao Vivo (Live) (2026)  "While her discography dates back more than 40 years, Eliane Elias is best experienced live in front of an audience. And that’s just how you’ll find her on her latest recording, Ao Vivo, leading her quartet at the SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium in October 2023. “We stretch out more on stage,” says the pianist and vocalist, who proceeds to do just that during a program spotlighting deeply ingrained Brazilian and Afro-Cuban roots. The set, which is heard in sequence as the quartet performed it, features classics by bossa giants Ary Barroso, Roberto Menescal, Dori Caymmi, and of course, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius Moraes, and pulls tunes from across Elias’ 30-plus recordings. "
Links:   Wikipedia, Discography, Website, YouTube.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: DOUBLECD

Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud (1970) 
"Ptah the El Daoud is a truly great album, and listeners who surrender themselves to it emerge on the other side of its 46 minutes transformed. From the purifying catharsis of the first moments of the title track to the last moments of "Mantra," with its disjointed piano dance and passionate ribbons of tenor cast out into the universe, the album resonates with beauty, clarity, and emotion.".  - ~ Stacia Proefrock - THE ALLMUSIC BLOG, Wikipedia, CD Discography, and MySpace page.

Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidananda (1971) "The CD reissue of Alice Coltrane's landmark Journey to Satchidananda reveals just how far the pianist and widow of John Coltrane had come in the three years after his death. The compositions here are wildly open and droning figures built on whole tones and minor modes. And while it's true that one can definitely hear her late husband's influence on this music, she wouldn't have had it any other way. Pharoah Sanders' playing on the title cut, "Shiva-Loka," and "Isis and Osiris" (which also features the Vishnu Wood on oud and Charlie Haden on bass) is gloriously restrained and melodic. Coltrane's harp playing, too, is an element of tonal expansion as much as it is a modal and melodic device. With a tamboura player, Cecil McBee on bass, Rashied Ali on drums, and Majid Shabazz on bells and tambourine, tracks such as "Stopover Bombay" and the D minor modally drenched "Something About John Coltrane" become exercised in truly Eastern blues improvisation. "     ~ Tom Jurek - AllMusic.com


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Respected Destroyer, Brandee Younger quintet
"Respected Destroyer" by Brandee Younger - 1/12/14 at DROM, A Tribute to Dorothy Ashby, presented by Revive Music

The band: Brandee Younger - harp, Sean Jones - trumpet, Chelsea Baratz - tenor sax, Rashaan Carter - bass, EJ Strickland - drums, Raydar Ellis - DJ

Brandy Younger Links: Facebook, Wikipedia, and Website.

BOOK RACK: FEATURED BOOK

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart,   "First published in 1958 – the year after Ghana became the first African nation to gain independence, as Britain, France and Belgium started to recognise the end of colonialism in Africa and began their unseemly withdrawal – Chinua Achebe's debut novel concerns itself with the events surrounding the start of this disastrous chapter in African history. Set in the late 19th century, at the height of the "Scramble" for African territories by the great European powers, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a proud and highly respected Igbo from Umuofia, somewhere near the Lower Niger. Okonkwo's clan are farmers, their complex society a patriarchal, democratic one. Achebe suggests that village life has not changed substantially in generations. But then the English arrive in their region, with the Bible – rather than the gun – their weapon of choice."  
~ Phil Mongredien - theguardian.com and Kobo Books

BOOK RACK: FEATURED SERIES

Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club   "Four residents of Coopers Chase, a British retirement village, compete with the police to solve a murder in this debut novel. The Thursday Murder Club started out with a group of septuagenarians working on old murder cases culled from the files of club founder Elizabeth Best’s friend Penny Gray, a former police officer who's now comatose in the village's nursing home... They charm Police Constable Donna De Freitas, who, visiting to give a talk on safety at Coopers Chase, finds the residents sharp as tacks. Built with drug money on the grounds of a convent, Coopers Chase is a high-end development conceived by loathsome Ian Ventham and maintained by dangerous crook Tony Curran, who’s about to be fired and replaced with wary but willing Bogdan Jankowski. Ventham has big plans for the future—as soon as he’s removed the nuns' bodies from the cemetery. When Curran is murdered, DCI Chris Hudson gets the case, but Elizabeth uses her influence to get the ambitious De Freitas included, giving the Thursday Club a police source. What follows is a fascinating primer in detection as British TV personality Osman allows the members to use their diverse skills to solve a series of interconnected crimes."     kirkusreviews.com,   Books: The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, The Last Devil to Die, The Impossible Fortune.   KOBO Books

MOVIES: FEATURED MOVIE

Hombre (1967)

" Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the story. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and ever since has straddled two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, Newman is subject to the racial bias of banker Fredric March and his snooty wife Barbara Rush. In truth, March is an embezzler, and has no reason to feel superior to anyone. This fact comes out when the coach is held up by murderous bandit-chief Richard Boone. When the passengers fight back, Boone takes Rush as a hostage. Newman, who by rights should be supremely satisfied that his tormentors are themselves tormented, proves himself the bravest of the passengers, sacrificing his own life to save Rush and put an end to Boone's reign of terror. Hombre is based on a novel by suspense specialist Elmore Leonard. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi" ~ - RottenTomatoes.com   Link: Hombre (1967) - Buy/Rent Watch online

CUISINE: FEATURED RESTAURANT

Elmina - located at 2208 14th St NW, Washington, DC. Elmina is what happens when Ghanaian food shows up to DC’s fine dining scene in its Sunday best. The $135 four-course tasting menu blends deep tradition with sharp technique: think scallop crudo with citrus and coconut, rich palm nut stew with shrimp and octopus, and a jollof duck pot dripping with smoky, pepper-laced shito. The obvious move at Elmina, from celebrity chef Eric Adjepong, is to come for a birthday, anniversary, or some other occasion that warrants a nice


shirt and some planning ahead and sitting in one of the two dining rooms. And while it’s great for that, we also love to come here on a whim and sit at the bar for the more casual a la carte menu, where you can get bites like okra fries, octopus kebabs with a shito glaze, or a hamachi collar with plantain chips. In a city with one of the largest Ghanaian communities in the U.S., Elmina is an excellent—and long overdue—addition to the DC dining scene."   Website: Elmina.

*The most recent featured musicians and play lists from the five Music listings on DC Bebop.   A musician listed on a DC Bebop page with an intro, is featured for 10 days with one of their songs.  Included in the play list are songs by nine other musicians in a table on DC Bebop. The songs are linked to a page (MySpace, Reverbnation, YouTube or where ever the song can be heard). The play list is not a top 10 list. It features songs I liked and think perhaps others might appreciate the music as well.

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