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Muddy Waters
Truly the father of Chicago blues, Muddy brought his Mississippi sound up from the Delta, combined it with the electric guitar, and redefined the genre. Waters taught himself how to play the blues by listening to Robert Johnson records. Eventually, he left Mississippi to play and sing in the Silas Gr
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Ennio Morricone
Three men stand equally spaced on the rim of a great circle. The man with no name, Angel Eyes, and Tuco all want gold, and they have already killed to get it. Now, as the wind whistles through the tombstones of the surrounding graveyard, they wait to see who will draw first, who will be left standing
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba unites blues, gospel, contemporary jazz, and folk with traditional Xhosa songs to make music that can truly be categorized as "World." After gaining international attention in the early 1950s for her performances in the film "Come Back, Africa" and the jazz opera "King Kong," Makeba was
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered to be the greatest qawwal of his generation. Qawwali, the Sufi music of India and Pakistan, translates literally as "utterance," and it is an ecstatic, spiritual poetry married to music. The music serves to express mystical love and the longing for a union with the
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