Bev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 40 years. She is the co-creator of a women's labor history multi-media presentation entitled "We Were There!" has recorded six albums, including a companion cd for the show, called "We Were There!", a solocd entitled "IN TUNE", a 7-song ep with her former group, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, called “CHEEKY WOMAN”, two albums with her fo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world. Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music: mambo, salsa, bo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
There is a fine line between self-emancipation and existential oblivion, as the life of Henry Grimes and the poems of SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD clearly illustrate. A master bassist who played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, he also sent tremors through the free-jazz world with the definitive style of his bass work in pioneering ESP recordings by the Albert Ayler Group. And then came his free fall through the oft-cited but virtually nonexistent "social network."...| Listen & Be Heard Network
