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Mahal was born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. on May 17, 1942, in New York City. [3] Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was raised in a musical environment: his mother was a member of a local gospel choir and his father, Henry Saint Claire Fredericks Sr., was an Afro-Caribbean jazz arranger and piano player.
Taj Mahal flows effortlessly through his soundcheck at the Luckman Arts Complex, an elegant theater at California State University, Los Angeles. It’s only the second show of Mahal’s tour ...
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Savoy received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 88 out of 100 from six critic scores. [4] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Thom Jurek writing that "this set offers blues-kissed reads of 14 tunes from the Great American Songbook" that "embodies the abundant joy of its predecessor, Get On ...
Davis joined Taj Mahal and played guitar and piano on Mahal's first four albums. He played slide, lead and rhythm, country and even jazz during his three-year stint with Mahal. In a 1967 gig, Mahal played with a young Duane Allman in attendance, and Davis' slide guitar playing on Statesboro Blues that night would ignite Allman's interest in the ...
Taj Mahal – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica; Hoshal Wright - electric guitar; Ray Fitzpatrick - bass; Earl "Wire" Lindo - keyboards; Rudy Costa - alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute, kalimba
Disc and Music Echo called it a "fine album, it's funky and it's gutsy, and there's splended brass on it". [5] Rolling Stone Magazine said it is a "loose riotous blues 'n roots album", and that Taj Mahal is "nearly alone carrying the torch of the country music blues for other young black musicians to hear".
Recordings by Rising Sons were widely bootlegged and nearly three decades later were released by Columbia Records under the title Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (1992). [2] "We were the problem," remembered Marker later. "We had difficulties distilling our multiple musical agendas down to a product that would sell.
Hanapepe Dream is an album by American blues/world artist Taj Mahal and Hawaiian music group The Hula Blues Band. [1] It is the second mutual recording for Taj and that band after Sacred Island , aka Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues .