Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

Nacimiento : 1942-05-17, Harlem, New York, USA

Historia

Taj Mahal is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.

Perfil

Taj Mahal

Películas

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Self
Contará la historia de un grupo que pasó de respaldar a Bob Dylan para convertirse en uno de los grupos más influyentes de su época.
ReMastered: La encrucijada del diablo
Himself
El enigmático músico de blues Robert Johnson dejó su impronta en la música estadounidense. Familiares, críticos y fans famosos examinan al hombre detrás del mito.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Himself
Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.
Shake 'Em On Down
Himself
Shake ‘Em On Down is a one-hour documentary film which aims to tell the story of Fred McDowell, who was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959, traveled to Europe with the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s, mentored Bonnie Raitt, and served as the cornerstone of the unique and enduring North Mississippi- style of blues music.
The American Epic Sessions
Himself
Jack White and T Bone Burnett invite today’s greatest artists to test their skills against the long-lost machine that recorded their musical idols and forebears. The producers have, over a decade rebuilt, a 1920s recording system, timed by a weight-driven system of clockwork gears. Stripped of the comforts and security of modern technology, Nas, Elton John, Alabama Shakes, Steve Martin Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, are among the artists who have three minutes and one chance to get their music etched into a revolving wax disc, before the weight hits the floor. The results are career defining performances and the very definition of "Lighting In A Bottle".
ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014
Self
Austin City Limits (ACL) heads to Nashville for a special broadcast featuring performance highlights from this year’s Americana Honors & Awards. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 premieres this Saturday, November 22, on PBS stations across the United States and includes performances from Robert Plant and Ry Cooder, among many others. The show was recorded live at the Americana Music Association's 13th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in September.
This Ain't No Mouse Music!
Self
Loving, music-filled tribute to Chris Strachwitz, guiding force behind legendary roots music label Arhoolie Records. With Ry Cooder, Clifton Chenier, Richard Thompson, Flaco Jiménez and a new generation of roots musicians.
All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
Himself
All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance, honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo artist in his own right, Allman possesses a voice that has resonated through four decades.
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013
Capturado durante dos noches en el Madison Square Garden, el Crossroads Guitar Festival ofrece una variedad de guitarristas legendarios que interpretan una mezcla de blues sensual, rock clásico y jams country.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar-winning songwriter.
Killer Diller
J.R. Cox
A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
Santana: Special Edition EP
Himself
Track listing : 1 - Intro (1min05) 2 - TAJ MAHAL : Riverside (1min40) 3 - TAJ MAHAL : Sweet Mama Genise (1min16) 4 - TAJ MAHAL : Oh Susannah (3min30) 5 - JOHNNY WINTER : Johnny B. Goode (5min35) 6 - JOHNNY WINTER feat. EDGAR WINTER : Tell The Truth (5min23) 7 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : Soapstone Mountain (5min10) 8 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : White Bird (4min55) 9 - SANTANA : Medley (3min52) 10 - SANTANA : Soul Sacrifice (7min53)
Songcatcher
Dexter Speaks
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Outside Ozona
Music
A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.
Outside Ozona
Dix Mayal
A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.
Seis días y siete noches
Entertainer
Robin Monroe, editora de una revista, está de vacaciones con su novio en una isla tropical. Por motivos de trabajo, se ve obligada a contratar el avión de Quinn Harris, pero en el vuelo sufren un accidente y se ven obligados a llevar a cabo un aterrizaje de emergencia.
Scrapple
Music
Small-time drug dealer Al Dean is out for the ultimate score. But when Al and his friends adopt a pig, their laid-back summer plans get baked. Set in the '70s, Scrapple is a Colorado ski-town story of drugs, love, and a pig named Scrapple.
Blind Willie's Blues: A Documentary Film
Also known as Georgia Blues, this is a biopic of influential bluesman Blind Willie McTell.
Blue Note: historia del jazz moderno
Self
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Self - Guitar
Un evento de 1968 organizado por The Rolling Stones. La película consta de dos conciertos en un escenario de circo e incluyó actos como The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull y Jethro Tull. John Lennon y su prometida Yoko Ono actuaron como parte de un supergrupo llamado The Dirty Mac, junto con Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell y Keith Richards.
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Mr. Will
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Zebrahead
Original Music Composer
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
El alucinante viaje de Bill y Ted
Gatekeeper
Una cabina telefónica es el instrumento que utilizan Billy y Ted para viajar a sus anchas por el espacio y el tiempo. Viajarán al Infierno, al Cielo, se harán amigos de la Muerte (que acabará convirtiéndose en ídolo del rock), y conocerán a los marcianos, al conejo de Pascua, y a Albert Einstein.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Music
Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad. This touching story captures all the drama of a perilous flight to freedom. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Songs
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Bones
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Taj Mahal and Friends
Live! February 19th, 1987. Palomino Club, North Hollywood, California.
Scott Joplin
Poor Alfred
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Sounder, Part 2
Music
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Sounder, Part 2
Ike
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Almos' a Man
Music
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
Fighting for Our Lives
Music
Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Sounder
Original Music Composer
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
Sounder
Ike
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
Mr. Handy's Blues
Himself
Mr. Handy's Blues is the never before told story of W.C. Handy, known worldwide as The Father of the Blues. The film features performances of Handy's songs by current artists including Taj Mahal, Bobby Rush and Gary Nichols.