Ike & Tina Turner

song would be perfect for Tina Turner’s powerful sound. Hence, Spector proceed to offer Ike Turner twenty thousand dollars to work exclusively with Tina (River, 2018). The wall of sound was once again used to produce this song. Spector’s ensemble consisted of, “over 20 top session musicians for the recording,” many back up singers and Tina Turner (River, 2018). As the song starts one can hear the iconic entry of musician layering and heavy use of reverb. Right away Tina enters with her powerful…

African American Music came about during the time of slavery in America. Africans from many different ethnicities and nationalities built their religious and secular rituals, festivals, and social gatherings on the foundation of song, dances, and rhythms they invented to cope with the New World realities. During the slavery era, enslaved African American became the musicians of choice for white and black celebrations because they were recognized as the best “musicians” around. Enslaved Africans…

dismissed from service after injuring himself during a jump and continued his musical career by becoming a session guitarist and working under the name of Jimmy James. By the start of 1966, Jimi had been a part of quite a few acts including: Ike and Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, the Isley Brothers, and Little Richard, and also in many venues all around Greenwich Village. After playing as Little Richard’s back line guitarist, he split ways and formed his own band named Jimmy James and the Blue Flames,…

HENDRIX 3 Jimi Hendrix: Life and Legacy Though Hendrix’s music career, along with his life was short lived, his legacy of being one of the greatest, if not the greatest guitar players of all time lives on along with his music. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942. His parents were Lucile and Al Hendrix. He was born Johnny Allen Hendrix, but his father changed his name to James Marshall for unknown reasons. (Biography.com, n.d.) Jimi showed an interest in music…

The Impact of Phil Spector in Music Industry. In 1951, a young boy moved from the thriving musical city of New York to Los Angeles after his father died. Having a perfect musical training background gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears. This young boy wrote "To Know Him is To Love Him" when he was a teenager. His song reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). His name is Phil Spector, a talented producer, songwriter, and musician. In later…

his ankle a year later in 1962. After this incident, he then decided to pursue a career of a profession musician, in the place of Nashville, Tennessee. As the years progressed, “Hendrix played backup for the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, King Curtis, and also Sam and Dave,” (Wilson sec.3). Yet throughout this extraordinary experience,he had “no significant recordings” (Wilson sec.3). Hendrix continued to focus in his own band and playing shows at cafe’s. The way his…

I saw a picture at the museum that caught my attention. The picture told the community to finish school. I thought that was very important because without a good education, you have no change to make it in the world. I am glad they took the time and made the decision to become color blind. We are all the same in gods’ eyes despite our many walks of like. It is so awesome to hear how these people, “with the key word being people” made wonderful music together in Stax and overlooked the color…

These days, it's normal to hear the combination of various styles of music. Truth be told, American music is more incorporated than previously and exhibits distinctive music from around the globe. Consolidating distinctive styles of music was famously done as ahead of schedule as the twentieth century with the development of American well-known music. One style of music that affected well-known music was African American music. At the time, American mainstream music was expanding with various…

without the group by the time he died of aids at age 30. He was buried in a gold casket wearing jeans and a Compton hat. Jerry Heller was a well known manager at the time, having worked with bands like: Journey, Marvin Gaye, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ike &…

I don’t know how the wonderful music history of Memphis pass me by but somehow It did! I have always heard that Memphis is known for its music history, especially the blues, but I never investigated the theory for myself. The instructor at the college challenged me to write a paper about the history of the Stax Museum in a reflection paper and I am really glad she did. It influenced me to finally take the time to view the history of Memphis firsthand starting with the Stax Museum. The research,…