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Listening To The Radio by Suzanne Brooks, The Jazz Generation
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1 tracks | 5 minutes
Released Dec 2005
on Women of Color Day
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This is a new and moving original ballad/slow bossa nova love song about a 98 year old man who descended from Louisiana slaves by a smooth-voiced jazz singer who is his biographer
Bio / Background
Listening to the Radio (lyrics and music) was composed by Suzanne Brooks in 2005 in memory of Jack Hall who hired her as his biographer in the last year of his life. She visited him weekly, including his last 6 months in a nursing home, bringing him catfish and spaghetti and singing jazz and gospel songs to him at his bedside. Born March 9, 1903, he died December 7, 2000. Brooks delivered his eulogy and wrote his obituary.
Who was Jack Hall? The grandson of slaves and son of Louisiana/Arkansas sharecroppers, Mr. Hall (as he was called) rose above many adversities in his life without losing his positive outlook, persistent sense of humor, resistance to injustice and faith in God. Mr. Hall was once a singer on Arkansas street corners with other members of a quartet. Learned from his grandmother, the Gospel song, "Remember Me" was his lifelong favorite. With Listening To The Radio, Suzanne Brooks does just that.
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