Roy was set up at stage left, sitting on a chair at the front corner of the stage. End of interview. Roy and the sound people had eventually figured out that it was a conflict with the stage lights. The pressure was on. Instead of having four sets to choose from, over two nights, it would all come down to the Wednesday night performances.
Eva was fighting a cold when the live album was recorded. The audio and video recordings made that winter night would soon make history. The first show was sold out, and the club was crowded. But she sounded great to me! I just remember being happy to be there. The management announced to the earlier audience that anyone who wanted to stay was welcome to do so.
Quite a few people did. Bryan McCulley again videotaped part of the second set. This instruction, Bryan fortunately ignored. Many years later, the album was sold all over the world. Here and there a note would be less than the perfection Eva demanded of herself.
I was sitting far stage right near the soundboard, and had a good view of Chris Biondo. Popular Albums. Popular Singles. Friend's E-mail. Cheek To Cheek Stormy Monday Bridge Over Troubled Water Fine And Mellow People Get Ready Blue Skies Tall Trees In Georgia Eva Cassidy had one of the most distinctive voices in music, but she passed away before fame had found her.
The Bowie, Maryland, native died 25 years ago this month. Millions of her records have been sold, but Cassidy never got to see the international success her music achieved. Her iconic live recording at D. Cassidy was just 33 years old when she died from cancer in , not long after releasing her "Live at Blues Alley" CD.
Here is another account, written by one of the lucky audience members at Blues Alley in January, Although I was a teenager at the time, I already enjoyed jazz and blues.
So at the time we heard about a club called Blues Alley at DC. And one night my family and I went there. At the door we knew that Eva Cassidy was the main artist of the night and she was taping the show for a future live cd. Never heard about the singer, but the idea of being part of a record got us excited. And we stayed to check it out. I remembered that we sat on a table far from the stage and near the bar, although the club was quite small. By the end of the first song we all knew that we had made a great choice by being there at that place.
The next day we went to Blues Alley again — there were two shows — and enjoyed one more night of incredible singing. A few months later we read in the Washington Post that Eva was going to perform again at Blues Alley, but now releasing her new cd.
Of course we attended the show, bought half a dozen cds — to all the family — and got them all autographed. She was so kind. You cannot imagine how sad me and my family are.
How could a person with that talent leave us.
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