Telling Our Stories; Black History (Feb. 9, 2012)

 "Sojourner Truth"
Credit: womenhistory.about.com

In honor of Black History Month and to commemorate the unending women who braved their lives, their freedom, and their souls I thought it best to allow the music today to remind us of what Black History is....A journey....A journey that we are constantly on, the destination is not reached for as we live and breathe each day we ourselves make Black History.

Just to give you a taste here is the immortal and amazing Abbey Lincoln doing Freedom Day with Max Roach in 1964.



You can always play this show online,  cut & paste this link http://bit.ly/u2MAq8  (Mid day Jazz 2-09-12, scroll down).  Please be sure to keep up with us via social media see below to always stay in contact and please don't hesitate to contact us.

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Please check out the playlist from below be sure to support these artists, their music, their performances and their efforts.

Keep your ears and eyes out for the Sophie's Parlor  40th Birthday weekend, March 8-10, 2012.  See you there, more details to come....

Sophie's Parlor is a show by womyn, about womyn, but for Everybody!

See ya soon---

Andrea

Today's Play List

Artist	Song Title	Album	Label
Pam Parker	Sophie's Theme	Imagine	Pam Parker
Judy Moffat	Black Woman	Women Holding Up Half the Sky: Women of Reggae	Shanachie
Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach	Freedom Day	We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite	Candid Records
Aretha Franklin	You'll Never Walk Alone	Gospel Greats	Rhino Flashback
Etta James	God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)	Heart & Soul -A Retrospective Disc 3	Hip-O Select
Regina Carter	Beau Regard	Regina Carter	Atlantic
Cindy Blackman	My Funny Valentine	Someday...	HighNote Records
Dakota Staton	My Funny Valentine	The Late Late Show	Collectables
Suphala	Transport	The Now	Rasa Music
Sweet Honey In the Rock	Motherless Chil'	The Women Gather	Earthbeat
Terri Lyne Carrington	Oh Freedome (Interlude)	More to Say... (Real Life Story NextGen)	Koch Records
Geri Allen	Al-Leu-Cha	Timeless Portraits & Dreams	Telarc
Susan Werner	Together	The Gospel Truth	Sleeve Dog Records
Aretha Franklin	Amazing Grace	Gospel Greats	Rhino Flashback
Dee Dee Bridgewater	What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Keeping Traditions	Emarcy/ DDB Records
Joycelyn Brown (Nuyorican Soul)	I Am the Black Gold of the Sun	Nuyorican Soul	Blue Thumb
Nina Simone	Here Come's the Sun	The Very Best Of Nina Simone 1967-1972 - Sugar In My Bowl	RCA Records Label
Carmen Lundy	Round Midnight		Jvc / Xrcd
Alice Coltrane	Cresent	Translinear Light	Impulse/Universal
Cassandra Wilson	Black Orpheus	Loverly	Blue Note Records
Sinead O' Connor	War	Throw Down your Arms	That's why there's chocolate and vanilla

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Pledge Drive Show #3-Winter 2011

Thanks and kudos to Divas Lakeisha and Elise for helping out this Third Diva of the Day, Andrea. These sistahs and even my mother got in the act. As always continue supporting WPFW and Sophie's Parlor Women's Radio Collective.

Call 202-588-9739 (locally) or 1-800-222-9739 (out of the calling area). For those tech savvy listeners make your pledge of support online at www.wpfw.org

New World is A Coming and we need and want you to take this journey with us!!!

Andrea

Below is the playlist from the show

• Sophie's Theme 3:11 Pam Parker Imagine
• Zulu Lounge 5:52 Freshlyground Ma' Cheri
• Knowledge of Good and Evil 7:59 Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society
• Something to Talk About 3:47 Bonnie Raitt The Best of Bonnie Raitt
• How I Got Over 4:20 Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace - The Complete Recordings
• La Sopa en Botella 2:42 Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera The Best of Celia Cruz
• Beandip 2:04 Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans No Cheap Dates
• How High The Moon? 3:02 Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan Verve Jazz Masters
• Lift Every Voice and Sing 4:38 Nnenna Freelon Homefree
• Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou
• Struttin' with Some Barbeque 3:19 Catherine Russell Inside This Heart of Mine
• Picadillo 8:38 Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans No Cheap Dates
• Here Comes the Sun 3:47 Nina Simone The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl (1967-1972)
• Going Home 4:46 Ulali Heartbeat: Voices Of First Nations Women

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Echoes Evolving; African American History through Women

Diva of the Day--Andrea
February Playlist

This show entitled "Echoes Evolving" is a tribute to the African American Woman and women around the world who are the evolutions of the women they come from in the form of modern day echoes. Saying things that have been said before, but in a different way.

This show also featured two interviews:

1:30 pm
Interview with Christine Johnson of
Woman Speak
www.christinefelice.com

2:15pm
Interview with N'ea Posey about Being Bessie Smith for
When Harlem Came to Paris
www.harleminparis.com

• Echo Breaths Sweet Honey In The Rock 5:36
• Green Eyes Mama's Gun Erykah Badu 10:05
• I Will Move On Up A Little Higher Amazing Grace Mahalia Jackson 2:42
• Strange Fruit The Billie Holiday Songbook Billie Holiday 3:05
• Coming Home The Orchard Lizz Wright 4:46
• I Know You Know Esperanza Esperanza Spalding 3:46
• Funny Face Avant Gershwin Patti Austin 4:01
• My Prayers Soulsinger Ledisi 4:39 Jazz
• A Lua Girou Girou (Adaptation Of The Song Girou Girou) Bataparana Edit Africa Brazil Grupo Batuque 4:10
• Chasing Pavements Hometown Glory Adele 3:34
• Twice Little Dragon Little Dragon 3:06
• Babethandaza In This Land Sweet Honey In The Rock 3:09
• Alla En Los Hollos Ritmo Y Canto Ritmo Y Canto 7:01
• Somewhere In My Lifetime Under Her Spell: Greatest Hits Phyllis Hyman 3:30
• Photograph Sarah Vaughan: Brazilian Romance Sarah Vaughan 2:33
• Heaven's Here On Earth New Beginning Tracy Chapman 5:23
• One Love Balancê Sara Tavares 4:35
• Bag Lady Mama's Gun Erykah Badu 5:48
• Bowmboi Bowmboï Rokia Traoré 9:56
• Ella's Song Breaths Sweet Honey In The Rock 5:50
• Oh My Love (Djarabi) Red Earth - A Malian Journey Dee Dee Bridgewater 6:03

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