GIANT STEPS - Pharoah Sanders and John Hicks
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Giant Steps (Coltrane) with Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxphone and John Hicks on piano. 1986.
The Rascals & Daryl Hall at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand, 8-28-25
It was a joyful and rollicking good time at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand, Thursday night, with the double bill concert featuring 1960s pop and rhythm & blues icons, The Rascals, and soul singer/rock and roll icon Daryl Hall, co-headlining a concert. The Rascals began the show with a song called "A Ray of Hope" dedicated to the children who lost their lives in the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting that happened the day before, in Minneapolis. From there, The Rascals weaved in and out of their classic popular hit songs, and they included snippets and quotes of popular songs of their contemporaries from the 1960s, and in this hour of need of positivity and healing after a tragedy, the music served as balm and comfort, upbeat and joyous the whole way through the opening set. Songs like "I've Been Lonely Too Long", "Mustang Sally" (Sir Mack Rice's song famously recorded by Wilson Pickett), and "People Got to Be Free" all had t...
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