Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Colin Fleming (Journalist, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
04 November 2021

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3

Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding’s Live in Europe and James Brown’s Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional, and social journey played out over one night on the stage of a sweaty Miami club, as Cooke made music that encapsulated everything he had ever cut, channeling forces that would soon birth “A Change is Gonna Come,” the most important soul song ever written.

This book covers Cooke’s days with the Soul Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more about this complex man and the complex music he was always fashioning. A writer and an agent of social change, he absorbed the teachings of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan while reconciling his own identity and what fans expected of him. Fleming explores how this towering soul artist came to reconcile so many disparate elements on a Florida stage on a winter night in 1963—a stage that extended well into the future, beyond Cooke’s own life, beyond the 1960s, and into a perpetual here-and-now. Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 will resonate so long as we all have need to look into ourselves and square our differences and become more human, and more connected with others in our humanity.

By: Colin Fleming (Journalist USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 121mm,
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9781501355547
ISBN 10: 1501355546
Series: 33 1/3
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 04 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The Man Who Went 2. Soul Rest, Soul Launch 3. A Little Night Music 4. Under the Trees and Over in Overtown 5. Circle Sounds 6. Promissory Party

Colin Fleming writes about music, and has written about soul, jazz, and blues for dozens of publications including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, MOJO, and DownBeat. He is a regular guest on NPR's Weekend Edition.

Reviews for Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Fleming's ability to think historically, musicologically and even autobiographically allows him to tease out some of the depths of the recording. * Spectrum Culture *