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Sagebrush Symphony is the nineteenth album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey, his second live album since his 1979 live/studio album Peaks, Valleys, Honkytonks and Alleys, and his first album with a symphony orchestra.
26. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity — died on Sunday in West Hills, Calif. He was believed to be 100.
Herb Jeffries war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Musiker und Schauspieler. Mitte der 1930er Jahre ging er als erster und bislang einziger afroamerikanischer Singender Cowboy mit einer Serie musikalischer Western in die Geschichte ein.
Today Jeffries is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ultimately displayed a positive image as a black actor on celluloid. In 1979, Jeffries was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
Sagebrush Symphony: Directed by Gary Menotti. With Herb Jeffries, Richard Mirabal, Michael Martin Murphey, Hank Thompson.
- Gary Menotti
- 1996-05-01
- Documentary, Music
- 60
Recorded live with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, this ambitious album, which presents cowboy songs and poems in a symphonic setting, contains a selection of Murphey's most popular songs,...
"Sagebrush Symphony" is performed with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra along with help from western music regulars such as Sons Of The San Joaquin, Herb Jeffries, and Native American performer Robert Mirabal. If a fan of the American West you may want to set aside an hour, turn the lights down and the CD player up and give this a listen.
