Sarah Webster Fabio Boss Soul Rar Series Rainbow Signs

Released: 2010 Genre: Funk Soul, Jazz Style: Jazz-Funk, Poetry Tracklist A1 The Hand That Rocks A2 Sweet Songs A3 Juju For: Grandma B1 Chromo B2 Still, A Red Hot Axe B3 If We Come As Soft Rain B4 JujusAlchemy Of The Blues B5 JujusAlchemy Of The Blues Instrumental Phonographic Copyright (p) Smithsonian Folkways Phonographic Copyright (p) Folkways Records Copyright (c) Smithsonian Folkways Copyright (c) Folkways Records Manufactured By Runt Distributed By Runt Credits Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Piano Denianke Band, Co-producer Dont Fight The Feeling Bass Ronald Fabio Composed By Cyril Leslie Fabio III, Denianke, Ronald Fabio, Wayne Wallace Congas Cyril Leslie Fabio III Design Cover Ronald Clyne Directed By Musical Directors Denianke, Wayne Wallace Drums Lawrence E.

Vann Effects Special Effects Rick Hopton, Thomas Fabio Engineer, Co-producer Fred F.

Cohn Lead Guitar Wayne Wallace Narrator, Read By Male Dramatic Readings Thomas Albert Fabio Technician Technical Assistants Alice Bruce, Anna Jones, Bob Clemons, Cheryl Fabio, Renee Fabio, Thomas Fabio Words By Poems, Read By, Producer Sarah Webster Fabio 1976 Folkways Records And Service Corp.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

An incredible album, and very unique Sarah Webster Fabio was a hip 70s poet with a very righteous sound and shes working here with funky backings by a tight group that includes family members, in a style thats similar to early 70s work by artists like Wanda Robinson and Camille Yarborough both of whom also mixed together funk and poetry The albums got a massive funky cut called Sweet Songs the kind of groover we never tire of, with tight drums, great guitar, and wonderful vocals by Sarah herself.

Theres lots of other great tunes too About JujusAlchemy of the Blues, Fabio expresses: I feel that these poems represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich source of inspiration welling from the Black experience here in America.

Accompanied by her children or her house band also known as Dont Fight the Feeling, this album is the sophisticated sequel to Boss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio Sarah Webster Fabio was a poet, scholar, activist and a leading figure in the world of African-American Studies.

Born in Nashville, TN she taught at Merritt College in Oakland, CA at the same time that Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton were students there, and she helped to start the UC Berkeley African-American Studies department.

In 1976 she released this album of poetry backed by one of the funkiest bands on the West Coast, which included a number of her children.

Jujus Sarah Webster Fabio - Alchemy of the Blues Juju feat Sarah Webster Fabio -Juju Alchemy of the Blues Instrumental Sarah Webster Fabio - Chromo Sarah Webster Fabio - If We Come Like Soft Rain.

Intellectually adroit and talented, Webster was accepted to and attended Spelman College.

Instead, she returned to Nashville, Tennessee where she graduated from Fisk University.

She then married Cyril Fabio, a dental student who later graduated from the historically Black Meharry Medical College.

She had 3 children (born 1947, 1948 and in 1949) while her husband was stationed in various locations across America.

When they were stationed in Nashville, Fabio enrolled in graduate school; but then her husband was deployed to Germany and Fabio was forced to delay her studies yet again.

During her time in Germany she had another child, born in 1954, her fourth and finally, when they moved back to the Wichita, Kansas US the fifth child, born in 1956.

She graduated in 1965, on the same day her eldest graduated from high school.

Shortly after she got a job teaching at Meritt College in Oakland, California.

Meritt college was well known as a hot-bed of Black activist activity during the Civil Rights era.

Students at the time included Maulana Karenga, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

She read her poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Art in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966.

Upon her return, she began lecturing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the University of California, Berkeley.

There, she worked to create their first Black Studies department.

Fabio also performed poetic recordings (four albums in 1972 under Folkways Records ).

Her records, and the entire Folkways collection, are found in the Smithsonian Folkway collection online.

She published an anthology in 1966.

Sarah Webster Fabio Boss Soul Rar Series Rainbow Signs

Her seven-volume series Rainbow Signs is considered one of her most impressive works.

While pursuing her PhD in American and African Studies at the University of Iowa in 1976 and whilst teaching at the University of Wisconsin she was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Fabio spent her last two years with her oldest daughter born in 1949, and died at the age of 51 on November 7, 1979.

Fabio as her MA thesis in communications at Stanford University in 1976.

In 2012, The Black Film Center at Indiana University was awarded a preservation grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to remaster and preserve the film.

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