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FAVORITE THINGS!
Here’s a list of some of our favorite movies, places, CDs, etc. Hardly an exhaustive or comprehensive list.
Just to let you know a little more about us.
MOVIES:
Paula
Claudine
School Daze
The Matrix
Tyrone
Uptown Saturday Night
Remember The Titans
12 Angry Men
North by Northwest
Hero
The Last Emperor
Mahogany
BOOKS:
Paula
Battlefield of The Mind by Joyce Meyer
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Tyrone
The Bible (Amplified)
Maximize The Moment by T.D. Jakes
A Love Supreme – The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album by Ashley Kahn
The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church by Michael W. Harris
MUSIC: (Of course a sampling! And in no particular order)
Tyrone
Fred Hammond – Pages of Life
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Giant Steps
Keith Jarrett – Belonging, My Song
Stevie Wonder – Original MusicAquarium, Songs In The Key Of Life
Branford Marsalis – Contemporary Jazz, Requiem
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage, Thrust, Empryean Isles, Speak Like a Child
Dianne Reeves – In The Moment
Michael Brecker/Brecker Bros – Everything!
David Sanborn – Everything!
Donny Hathaway – Live (Superwoman)
Kirk Franklin - The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin, Hero
Edwin Hawkins - Oh Happy Day (All of the early Music & Arts Seminar choir albums)
Walter Hawkins (anything & all) incl. Tramaine Hawkins solo albums
Weather Report – Live & Unreleased, Heavy Weather, Black Market
Paula
Kirk Franklin: Imagine Me from the Hero CD
Betty Carter: Open the Door (theme song) from Betty Carter’s Finest Hour
Kim Burrell: Try Me Again – the CD
Roberta Flack and Donnie Hathaway – Roberta Flack and Donnie Hathaway the CD
Walter Hawkins: Love Alive – the album
Dianne Reeves: Morning Has Broken from In the Moment
Rachelle Farrell: Rachelle Farrell the CD; Prayer Dance and With Every Breath I Take from Live at Montreux CD and First Instrument CD
Luther Vandross: Wait for Love, Other Side of the World, Never Too Much, and his earlier recordings
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions – the CD
Stefon Harris & Blackout – The Lost Ones, from the CD Evolution
And as an extra:
Ella Fitzgerald – her entire collection! I’m still trying to figure her out!
RESTAURANTS
Sushiya
Smoke
BBQ (73rd & 3rd)
Sea Shore Restaurant (City Island)
Londel’s Supper Club
Harlem Tea Room
Ginger
FAVORITE PLACES
New York Botanical Gardens
Peschiera del Garda, Italy
Santa Barbara, CA
Quebec City, Province of Quebec, Canada
Esplanade at Battery Park City
Central Park
Historic River Towns of Westchester (Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Ossining)
Palisades Mall
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