New Ark Records – NYEM 001
US, 1989
private
A1 Song For My Father
B1 Birth of a Flower
A1
Ellen May Shashoyan – vocal, piano, zils
Wally Richardson – guitar
Reggie Workman – bass
Joe Marshall – drums
Bilal Abdurahman – darabuka, tambourine
Harold Minerva – alto sax
Zane Paul – alto sax
Harold Vic – tenor sax
Ricky Ford – tenor sax
Heywood Henry – bass clarinet
B1
Ellen May Shashoyan – vocal, piano
Wally Richardson – guitar
Reggie Workman – bass
Joe Marshall – drums
Harold Minerve – alto sax
Norris Turney – alto sax
Frank Wes – tenor sax
Babe Clark – tenor sax
Zane Paul – bass clarinet
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You can find Ellen May Shashoyan listed on the credits for various vocal versions of Song For My Father, but oddly it seems impossible to find a recording of her own prior to this release—30 years after Leon Thomas sang Shashoyan's lyrics for the first time. Seems she definitely had some respect around the New York scene though, some heavy duty sidemen backing her here. Had this one on repeat for awhile, deep hypnotic & spiritual.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/zhfba5tkiwv08vp/shashoyan.zip__________
You can find Ellen May Shashoyan listed on the credits for various vocal versions of Song For My Father, but oddly it seems impossible to find a recording of her own prior to this release—30 years after Leon Thomas sang Shashoyan's lyrics for the first time. Seems she definitely had some respect around the New York scene though, some heavy duty sidemen backing her here. Had this one on repeat for awhile, deep hypnotic & spiritual.
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