Eclectique Interview: Dawn Elliott Robinson

In John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” song he writes “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Or lately, the adage resembles the Frank Sinatra tune “That’s Life.” One life lesson is there’s really no excuse for not practicing your art if that’s what you want or love even in a environment [...]

If there was ever a man…. Fathers Day

Sunday, 20 June 2010, 8:39 | Category : Culture, Eclectique Citizen, Music, The Arts
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The first time I heard Horace Silver‘s “Song for My Father,” it was in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College. Wendell Logan, the jazz professor of a renegade jazz studies program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, assigned it to my BFF Dawn E. Robinson to sing as a duet with our fellow Duke Ellington School [...]