SOMETHING SWEET, SOMETHING COOL: BLACK MUSIC ARTISTS

By: Kenji

Nat King Cole: When I Fall in Love

Fela Kuti: Fefe Naa Efe

Etta James: At Last

Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come

John Lee Hooker: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Nina Simone: Sinnerman

Tinariwen: Toumast

Miles Davis & John Coltrane: So What

The Ronettes: Be My Baby

Howlin Wolf: Spoonful

Sarah Vaughan: Summertime

Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues

Ali Farka Touré: Ai Du

Martha & the Vandellas: Nowhere to Run

Allen Toussaint: St James’ Infirmary

James Brown: Superbad

Cesaria Evora: Sodade

Willie Dixon: Put it All in There

Barry White: You’re the First, the Last, my Everything

Dinah Washington: Mad About the Boy

The Temptations: Papa was a Rollin’ Stone

Mahalia Jackson: Trouble of the World

Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come

Tilahun Gessesse: Yetelash Yetela

Roberta Flack: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Chile

Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

Ben E King: Stand by Me

Leontyne Price: Ave Maria

Eric Dolphy: Something Sweet, Something Tender

Pointer Sisters: Slow Hand

Baaba Maal & Taj Mahal: Trouble Sleep; Yanga Wake Am

Elmore James: Dust my Broom

Harry Belafonte: Island in the Sun

Lightni’ Hopkins: My Starter Won’t Start This Morning

Tina Turner: River Deep Mountain High

Mahmoud Ahmed: Tizita

B B King: The Thrill is Gone

Ella Fitzgerald: Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye

Bob Marley: Is This Love

Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite

Betty Davis: Your Man My Man

Charlie Parker: Bird of Paradise

Terence Trent D’Arby: Sign Your Name

Ahmad Jamal Trio: Ahmad’s Blues

Viviane Etienne: Love Toi

Marian Anderson: Motherless Child

The Real Thing: You To Me Are Everything

Salif Keita: Kuma

Otis Redding: Sittin on the Dock of the Bay

Dorothy Ashby: Soul Vibrations

Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill

Curtis Mayfield: Freddie’s Dead

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee: Hooray, Hooray, these Women is Killin Me

Shirley Bassey: Never Never Never

Thelonius Monk: Blue Monk

The Crystals: Do Doo Ron Ron

Muddy Waters: Rollin’ Stone (Catfish Blues)

Gigi: Guramayle

Duke Ellington: C Jam Blues

Stevie Wonder: I Wish

Horace Silver Quintet: The Kicker

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Recommendations very welcome

• 01
  The Harder They Come
  Perry Henzell
• 02
  Jammin' the Blues
  Gjon Mili
• 03
  Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey
  D.A. Pennebaker
• 04
  Bird Now
  Marc Huraux
• 05
  Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
  Murray Lerner
• 06
  Ballad in Blue
  Paul Henreid
• 07
  Jam Session
  Josef Berne
• 08
  Bird
  Clint Eastwood
• 09
  Ray
  Taylor Hackford
• 10
  Jazz on a Summer's Day
  Bert Stern
• 11
  Cabin in the Sky
  Vincente Minnelli
• 12
  The Sound of Miles Davis
  Jack Smight
• 13
  Improvisation
  Norman Granz