VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS PICKS UP A COPY OF MINGUS' LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC

[IronLionZion]

https://www.charlesmingus.com/blog/vice-president-kamala-harris-buys-let-my-children-hear-music-4hax9

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9vIRxmymW2/

Judging the candidates the only way that makes sense: Their records
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-record-collection-jd-vance-spotify/

Another clip, from May 2023, finds Harris in D.C., leaving Home Rule Records with an armful of vinyl in a paper bag. Although I already knew that Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff run a jazz household (his children from his first marriage, Ella and Cole, are respectively named after Fitzgerald and John Coltrane), it hits different seeing the veep out and actively crate-digging — to me, one of the most human things a person can do.

And eyeing her purchases triggered an instinctual interpersonal curiosity, a good-natured nosiness that should be familiar to any “music person.” Among her selections: Charles Mingus’s orchestrally enhanced 1972 album, “Let My Children Hear Music”; Roy Ayers’s 1976 studio album, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” (“one of my favorite albums of all time”); and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s 1959 recording of “Porgy & Bess.” An objectively solid haul.

Not sure where's the right forum to post this. VP Harris has great taste in music. Charlie Mingus' facebook page posted this. Video at the instagram link. And it's fun to know the origin of her stepkids' names.

[ChazInAz]

1. Porgy And Bess! Yeah.

My dark and cynical heart lit up and kvelled when I saw her choice.
I'd just been down to KC to see the show live for the first time, after years of listening to it and seeing it performed on TV. Janis Joplin's rendition of Summertime is a classic, but hearing a beautiful Black contralto lay down the plain and simple Blues gave me chills and moved me to tears. Got my date, Kalena, too.