Terry callier dancing girl
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A live recording of Terry Callier at the Jazz Cafe, Camden, London from the year that captures some of the spirit of Terry's incredible live performances.
This is the first of two live albums that Terry has recorded for Mr Bongo. The second, entitled Welcome Home was released in March and features different tracks.
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&#;Dancing Girl&#;: Terry Callier’s Epic Masterpiece
For decades, Philadelphia radio legend J. Michael Harrison has brought a delightfully freeform approach to Temple University’s WRTI. In the mids, I was a teenage devotee of Harrison’s show “The Bridge.” On Friday nights I’d fill up minute TDK cassettes with Harrison’s adventurous DJ sets. Like many young people, my appetite for new music was glupsk and “The Bridge” helped school me on the radical sounds of free jazz, bebop and fusion. As a DJ, Harrison’s approach to selection was freeform without being formless. Each episode highlighted the depth and power of Black creativity with often underappreciated work from experimental Black musicians like Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Screaming Headless Torsos, and many more.
One night, Harrison came out of a station ID and introduced a song I’d never heard before, Terry Callier’s “Dancing Girl.” I was immediately drawn in by the somber, minor key guitar motif of the song’s intro
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Listen to this track by lyrical folk-jazz singer-songwriter Terry Callier. It&#;s &#;Dancing Girl&#; the jewel in the crown of his album What Color is Love?, Callier&#;s third album after his debut. Callier represented a fairly untraveled section of the pop music spectrum, standing somewhere between folk-rock, jazz, and soul music. Gil Scott-Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Roy Ayers, and John Martyn may seem to be comparable artists who take up a similar space along that spectrum. Yet, Callier is a singular voice.
Beyond a cult following, Callier didn&#;t achieve the visibility of other singer-songwriters of the era. Perhaps this was because his music is not easy to pin down, and therefore not aimed at any one specific audience. What his music does do is to evoke spiritual images, yet remaining rooted firmly in the physical world at the same time, often making direct comment on the poverty and hopelessness to be found in inner city America. And &#;Dancing Girl&#; is