ZUM TOD DER US-AMERIKANISCHEN SOUL- UND FUNK-SÄNGERIN SHARON JONES
19.11.2016 Die am 4. Mai 1956 in Augusta (Georgia) geborene US-amerikanische Soul- und Funk-Sängerin Sharon Jones (Bild) ist am 18. November 2016 in Cooperstown (New York) gestorben.
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Ms. Jones sang and shouted the kind of gospel-charged soul and funk she had grown up on. Her voice had bite, bluesiness, rhythmic savvy and a lifetime of conviction. She was backed by the Dap-Kings, the revivalist New York City R&B band that supplied her songs as she sparked their career.
Jon Pareles
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/arts/music/sharon-jones-dap-kings-dead.html?_r=0
The group's last album, the holiday compilation It's a Holiday Soul Party, was released in 2015. Speaking to Rolling Stone earlier this year, Jones expressed interest in recording a gospel album with the Dap-Kings, repeating her mantra, "I have cancer; cancer don't have me."
Jason Newman
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sharon-jones-soul-singer-with-dap-kings-dead-at-60-w451517
Although she had been a singer for much of her life, Jones only became known later in her life. She didn't release her first album until 1996, when she was 40, after being noticed working as a back-up singer on an album by Lee Fields. It was only in this century, though, that she started to receive serious attention, fronting Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Michael Hann
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/19/soul-star-sharon-jones-dies-aged-60
Die letzte Soul-Priesterin
Sie wurde als weibliches Gegenstück zu James Brown gefeiert: Keine gab wütendere und zärtlichere Konzerte als Sharon Jones.
Christian Buss
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/sharon-jones-ist-im-alter-von-60-jahren-gestorben-a-1122112.html
Today we pay tribute to the big-voiced soul singer Sharon Jones. We remember her performing with a great energy at the Auditorium Stravinski in 2014 with Charles Bradley and the Dap Kings.
Montreux Jazz Festival
Die unermüdlich tourende Jones hatte auch in Basel und Umgebung für Furore gesorgt - so etwa bei einem umjubelten Konzert in der Kaserne im Jahr 2012.
«Ich bin Soul»
Sie war vielleicht die letzte Queen des traditionellen Soul.
Claus Lochbihler
http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/zum-tod-von-sharon-jones-ich-bin-soul-ld.129410?reduced=true
Videos:
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "100 Days, 100 Nights"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Stranger To My Happiness"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPE1rEdAdI
SHARON JONES DEAD at 60 - TRIBUTE- - Shout it Out & Dance!! - The Dap Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_2j8ewfOs
Mehr:
http://sharonjonesandthedapkings.com/
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/10883-Sharon-Jones
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/83816-Sharon-Jones-The-Dap-Kings
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000993494