Music

Anthropologist Elizabeth McAlister is an expert on Haitian Vodou and she's studied Haitian Vodou in Brooklyn and in Haiti. She's compiled a new album of sacred and ceremonial music recorded in Haiti and in New York, "Rhythms of Rapture" and contributed to a new book "Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou." (Smithsonian Folkways).

Nancy Sinatra daughter of Frank Sinatra. She's recorded a few hits of her own including "These Boots are Made for Walking," and "Something Stupid," the duet she recorded with her father. Nancy Sinatra has written a book about her father, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend (General Publishing Group). Nancy Sinatra has a new album too, (her first in 20 years) "One More Time." (Cougar records). (WE AIRED PART OF HER INTERVIEW 12/12/95 ON THE OCCASION OF HER FATHER'S 80TH BIRTHDAY.)

Music critic Milo Miles reviews Mo Boma's album "Myths of the Near Future" and the Rothenberg-Bonne-Velez Trio's album "On the Cliffs of the Heart."

Walter Turnbull is the founder and of the Boys Choir of Harlem. He has written about his work in "Lift Every Voice" by Hyperion. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Milo Miles reviews Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Complete Recorded Works 1938-1944 by Document Records. also Mahalia Jackson's Apollo recordings.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Kirk Franklin and the Family.

Commentator Milo Miles reviews the five-CD box set featuring Chicago and country blues performers from the early 60s. It's called "American Folk Blues Festival '62 to '65." (Evidence label).

Music review "Brasil: A Century Of Song" by Milo Miles. .

Trumpet player and arranger Billy May.

Charles Granata is a Cop who has an extensive archive of Sinatra recordings. Many of the them have been used for Sinatra reissues. He was Project Director for the box set: "Frank Sinatra: The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952).