FOR THE BROTHAS: AN INTRODUCTION

It must have been about 20 years ago when I first began thinking about creating a "Cultural Salon" as a reaction to the mundane social circles In Washington D.C. The richness of intellectual and artistic interchange had died, college friends had moved, the internet had not yet become the phenomenon it now is... I romanticised about the Salons of the mid to late 1800's in Paris, London and Berlin and the cultural dynamo of the Harlem Rennaisance. I was fortunate enough to meet a gentleman, an artist who lived and traveled with James Baldwin... Jimmy he affectionately called him, and he spoke often of their small cottage in southern France and of the many Artists, Poets and Luminaries that dropped in to chat and relax. Well, the impressionists, cubists, modernists, etc. all hung out together famously in those days and shared their ideas with one another creating a creative greenhouse in a world that was rapidly changing. I longed to have lived in those times, to have met Cassat, Rodin, Ellington, Fitzgerald, Baker, Balwin, well I did finally meet Baldwin and others purely for the joy of intellection upon the arts. This was in the late 1980's and by the mid 2000's I happened to run into a friend of mine from Hampton University who had been living in New York since he graduated in the early 90s. Well, I was surprised to hear him comment that in all of the wonder that is New York he never met anyone who ever really had anything interesting to say about art, literature, architecture, science, fashion or anything... I was so surprised to hear this since it had also been my experience. Well here I am in 2011 attempting the Virtual Salon...

Sunday, August 5, 2012





1.        “I GOT MY MIND MADE UP” By Instant Funk;  Originally recorded in 1979
                      "I GOT MY MIND MADE UP"
2.       “SPRING  RAIN” By The Destiny;  Originally recorded in 1978
                      "SPRING RAIN"
3.      “SOUENIRS” By Voyage; Originally recorded in 1978
                      "SOUVENIRS"
4.       “I HAVEN’T STOPPED DANCIN YET” By Gonzalez; Originally recorded in 1979

                      "I HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCIN YET"
5.      “LOVE AND DESIRE” By Arpeggio; Originally recorded in 1979
                      "LOVE AND DESIRE"
6.      “SUPERNATURE” By Cerrone; Originally recorded in 1976
                      "SUPERNATURE"
7.        “LOVE IN “C-MINOR”” By Cerrone; Originally recorded in
                "LOVE IN "C-MINOR""


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2 comments:

  1. Aaron BloodworthAugust 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM

    clothes were so tight back then u can't catch a man dead in fitted duds like those 2day. David I have to hear these songs to remember them. I'm sure i have b4..??

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  2. Bigdaddy BluesAugust 15, 2012 at 10:18 PM

    I LOVE THE TIGHTNESS, SO SEXY... EVEN BIG MEN LOOKED SEXY SHOWING SOME THIGH... AND THE PROPORTIONS ARE GREAT TOO ESPECIALLY THE BELL BOTTOMS AND STACKED HEELS

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