The Music We Paint With

The colors we use to paint ourselves and our lives lie between the lyrics of the music we listen to, the dances we dance, love we have... all of which move us forward even at times hold us back. Today let't listen to some of the music we paint with.

1.	Bye Bye Blues	6:59	Dinah Washington	After Hours with Miss D [Bonus Tracks]
2.	Sugar/Brown Sugar	4:43	Ledisi	Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue
3.	Black Is	7:21	Fertile Ground	Black Is
4.	Can't Steal My Joy	6:08	Steal Vybe Featuring Stephanie Renee
5.	El Negro Bembon	3:45	Celia Cruz	Rough Guide To Salsa Dance
6.	Colors Of The Night	3:50	Fertile Ground	Spiritual War
7.	Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue	7:43	Ledisi	Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue
8.	Sugar Blues	2:51	Ella Fitzgerald	The Ella Fitzgerald Songbook (Disc 2)
9.	Worrisome Heart	4:25	Melody Gardot	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
10.	The Sunshine	4:27	Ndambi	Tunin Up & Cosignin (Disc 2)
11.	I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun	5:20	Nuyorican Soul	Nuyorican Soul
12.	Outono (Stay)	5:04	Karrin Allyson	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
13.	Orange Moon	7:10	Erykah Badu	Mama's Gun
14.	He's Not Coming Home	4:18	K.J. Denhert	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
15.	Redbone	5:36	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Light Til Dawn
16.	Before Love Has Gone	5:07	Stevie Holland	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
17.	Blue Nile	8:06	Alice Coltrane
18.	You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To	4:54	Jackie Ryan With Red Hollaway	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
19.	Black Crow	4:39	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Light Til Dawn
20.	Revelation Sunshine	4:55	Cree Summer	Street Faërie
21.	Haiti (Interlude)	2:35	Gaelle	Transient
22.	I Got Lost in His Arms	4:04	Marilyn Scott	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
23.	Beautiful	3:59	Christina Aguilara
24.	Chasing After You	3:40	Erin Bode	Jazziz-July/August 2008: Women in Jazz vol. 9
25.	Journey in Satchidananda	6:43	Alice Coltrane	Journey in Satchidananda

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Rhythm of a Woman

The first sound we hear is the pulse of our mother's blood, and drumming is the musical expression of this primal truth.



Welcome to today’s Sophie’s Parlor show with Diva of the Day Helen Viksnins!

I am especially jazzed to be talking to Annette Aguilar on today’s show.

• Sophie's Theme 3:11 Pam Parker Imagine
• Indestructible Annette Aguilar 5:35
• Chachimurenga 4:49 Stella Chiweshe Talking Mbira
• 47th St. Jive (R. Sykes) 3:18 Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams Story
• Ho Jamaalo 2:13 Abida Parveen Songs of the Mystics
• Improv Time! - Rhythm Slam! 1:12 Sweet Honey In the Rock Still the Same Me
• Beandip 2:04 Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans No Cheap Dates
• If That's True 7:33 Esperanza Spalding Esperanza
• The Whirler 4:44 Layne Redmond Invoking the Muse
• Four In One 5:48 Hailey Niswanger Confeddie
• Afro Blue 5:11 Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth - A Malian Journey
• Conga 5:45 Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans No Cheap Dates
• Ai Dievini, Augstu Saule 3:51 Ensemble Rasa Lettonie: Musique des rites solaires (Latvia: Music of Solar Rites)
• Feliz Annette Aguilar 8:19
• A Woman's Place Is In the Groove 2:40 Ginger Smock 1946-1958 Los Angeles Studio and Demo Recordings
• Really Something 2:28 Heather Rigdon Young & Naïve
• Picadillo 8:38 Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans No Cheap Dates
• Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong 2:48 Sophie Tucker The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
• Aires de Lando 10:01 Maria Schneider Sky Blue
• Devil May Care 1:53 Kate Davis Introducing Kate Davis
• I've Got That Thing 2:56 Catherine Russell Sentimental Streak
• Jitterbug Waltz 9:05 Anat Cohen Notes from the Village
• Sweet Georgia Brown (feat. Carmen Bradford) 2:31 Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra (feat. Carmen Bradford) [Live]

Give me a call at 202-588-0893 and let me know if you like the show!

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