How about some Lester Bowie featuring his wife , Fontella Bass on a vocals plus the over-looked tenor of Ari Brown?
I don't think it was his birthday Ian!... you haven't quite grasped the concept of my daily birthday tributes have you?...
71....Freddie Stone (co-founder, guitarist and vocalist of Sly & the Family Stone) was born Frederick Stewart in Vallejo, California in 1947...
54... Magz, keyboardist and bassist for Fuzzbox (International Rescue) was born in Solihull in 1964...
62...Richard Butler (lead singer, songwriter of The Psychedelic Furs) was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1956...
71...Mrs Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, American avant-garde artist and musician (known for O Superman), born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois in 1947...
Tom Evans, rock bassist/vocalist (Badfinger), born in Liverpool (d. 1983)... He is singing this McCartney classic here...
Everytime America looks like a lost cause, it redeems itself with music. Just bought tickets to go and see these guys at Islington assembly Hall in September...
Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops-Same Old Song), born in Detroit, Michigan in 1936 (d. 2008)...
40... Carl BarĂ¢t, Indie singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things) was born in Basingstoke in 1978... This could almost be England's WC song...
Prince [Rogers Nelson], American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1958 (d. 2016)... I was obsessed with this man's music for a period between about '85-'88 and thought he was a natural born music genius up there with Stevie Wonder. The sex thing went a bit far in his lyrics after that IMO, but there is no denying the legacy that he has left to the World. His talent as a musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, dancer and entertainer was immense and unique...