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Takuya Kuroda - Everybody Loves The Sunshine

Takuya Kuroda - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
  • Release date: 2014
  • Duration: 09:26


"Kuroda signed with Blue Note Records and recorded his third solo album, the José James-produced Rising Son. Released in 2014, Rising Son featured a strong soul-jazz and hip-hop influence exemplified by the presence of several Roy Ayers compositions including “Everybody Loves the Sunshine." Blue Note Records


Whatever the radical constructionists may say, it is lived as a coherent (if not always stable) experiential sense of self. Though it is often felt to be natural and spontaneous, it remains the outcome of practical activity: language, gesture, bodily significations, desires.

tis impossible not to be borne down with the rapidity of these movements. A symphony of furies shakes the soul; it undermines and overthrows it in spite of all its care; the artist himself, whilst he is performing it, is seized with an unavoidable agony; he tortures his violin; he racks his body; he is no longer master of himself, but is agitated like one possessed with an irresistible motion.

For true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group.
Source: David Andrew "Jazz Cultures"


Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime

  • Louis Armstrong - Vocals, Trumpet
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
  • Paul Smith - Piano
  • Alvin Stoller - Drums & Orchestra

"Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Louis Armstrong, two albums of standards (1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Fitzgerald also recorded a number of sides with Armstrong for Decca in the early 1950s."

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