Friday 9 June 2017

140th birthday of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

(Born 9 June 1877, Philadelphia, US)
ONE OF African America’s preeminent renaissance artists: sculptor, painter, poet
(Meta Vaux Warrick FullerMother and Child, 1914)
(Meta Vaux Warrick FullerEthiopia Awakening, 1914)
(Meta Vaux Warrick FullerMary Turner, 1919)
(John Coltrane Quartet – and orchestra, “Africa” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Booker Little, trumpet; Carl Bowman, euphonium; Bob Northern, French horn; Julius Watkins, French horn; Donald Corrodo, French horn; Robert Swisshelm, French horn; Bill Barber, tuba; Britt Woodman, trombone; Gavin Bushell, piccolo; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute; McCoy Tyner, piano; Art Davis, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; orchestrated by Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 7 June 1961])
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