ZUM TOD DER US-AMERIKANISCHEN SOUL- UND FUNK-SÄNGERIN SHARON JONES

Die am 4. Mai 1956 in Augusta (Georgia) geborene US-amerikanische Soul- und Funk-Sängerin Sharon Jones (Bild) ist am 18. November 2016 in Cooperstown (New York) gestorben.

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Ms. Jones sang and shouted the kind of gospel-charged soul and funk she had grown up on. Her voice had bite, bluesiness, rhythmic savvy and a lifetime of conviction. She was backed by the Dap-Kings, the revivalist New York City R&B band that supplied her songs as she sparked their career.

Jon Pareles

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/arts/music/sharon-jones-dap-kings-dead.html?_r=0

The group’s last album, the holiday compilation It’s a Holiday Soul Party, was released in 2015. Speaking to Rolling Stone earlier this year, Jones expressed interest in recording a gospel album with the Dap-Kings, repeating her mantra, «I have cancer; cancer don’t have me.»

Jason Newman

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sharon-jones-soul-singer-with-dap-kings-dead-at-60-w451517

Although she had been a singer for much of her life, Jones only became known later in her life. She didn’t release her first album until 1996, when she was 40, after being noticed working as a back-up singer on an album by Lee Fields. It was only in this century, though, that she started to receive serious attention, fronting Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Michael Hann

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/19/soul-star-sharon-jones-dies-aged-60

Die letzte Soul-Priesterin

Sie wurde als weibliches Gegenstück zu James Brown gefeiert: Keine gab wütendere und zärtlichere Konzerte als Sharon Jones.

Christian Buss

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/sharon-jones-ist-im-alter-von-60-jahren-gestorben-a-1122112.html

Today we pay tribute to the big-voiced soul singer Sharon Jones. We remember her performing with a great energy at the Auditorium Stravinski in 2014 with Charles Bradley and the Dap Kings.

Montreux Jazz Festival

https://www.facebook.com/montreuxjazzfestival/photos/a.183829187022.132531.18686082022/10154090840667023/?type=3&theater

Die unermüdlich tourende Jones hatte auch in Basel und Umgebung für Furore gesorgt – so etwa bei einem umjubelten Konzert in der Kaserne im Jahr 2012.

http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2016_47/kultur/735280/US-Soulsängerin-Sharon-Jones-60-jährig-an-Krebs-gestorben.htm

«Ich bin Soul»

Sie war vielleicht die letzte Queen des traditionellen Soul.

Claus Lochbihler

http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/zum-tod-von-sharon-jones-ich-bin-soul-ld.129410?reduced=true

Videos:

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings «100 Days, 100 Nights»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings «Stranger To My Happiness»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPE1rEdAdI

SHARON JONES DEAD at 60 – TRIBUTE- – Shout it Out & Dance!! – The Dap Kings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_2j8ewfOs