Jasmine Black

The slide guitar technique found popularity during the late 1920s and the 1930s especially in the Mississippi delta as many musicians began to look for individual styles to enhance their popularity.
The 28 tracks here feature some of the greatest exponents of the style on a selection of tracks that may not have been hits or even in some instances have been released until many years after their recording. Several of the names like John Lee, John Dudley, Dan Pickett and Pinetop Slim are little known outside of blues collector circles. Others though did enjoy fame across the world for their music and records like, Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk, Johnny Shines and Homesick James.The influence of these musicians began to permeate into rock & roll music during the 1960s.Compiled and conceived by noted blues expert, Neil Slaven. Fully detailed liner notes.

by Sharrell D. Luckett (Editor, Contributor)
Signaling recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S

The Caiola Connection: The Creative World of Al Caiola is an extension of Jasmine's enormously popular THE CAIOLA BONANZA: Great Western Themes and Extra Bounties (JASCD743).

Grammy Award-winning, “velvet voiced” (NPR) baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jonathan King present a recital program honoring women in classical music, past and present, on Show Me The Way, Liverman’s second “passion project” recording for Cedille.