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"A portrait with an album that is of great personal significance accompanied by a short interview that explores the meaning and value of the selected recording."
One LP is a unique and critically acclaimed portrait photography project that explores the inspirational qualities of recordings and the impact that they have on people’s lives.
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G r e g o r y P o r t e r
Donny Hathaway: Live
There’s back and forth conversation, the women and the men in the audience are screaming things back to Donny and Donny’s of course responding musically - and responding incredibly musically.
You can feel the emotion in the room as soon as the needle hits the record.
That communication - it’s not just jazz, it’s not just soul, it’s human to human.
That exchange between humanity is just beautiful to see.
It happens on Donny Hathaway LIve.”
Photographed at Band on the Wall, Manchester, England
Concept and development
As a conversation is of course transient – usually committed only to memory
One LP has come to represent a journey into another’s soul: the album that each person selects is a part of them: their past, present and future. The project, conceived in the jazz world has been extended and now includes around 300 people in a spectrum of occupations in the creative milieu - academics, artists, broadcasters, music fans, musicians, photographers and writers.
W i l l i a m E l l i s, 2020
“One LP is a marvellous idea, superbly executed. The range of subjects (human and musical) is wide indeed, often surprising, sometimes touching, always interesting. May it go on and on."
D a n M o r g e n s t e r n
Director Emeritus, Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, NEA Jazz Master
"G r e a t p r o j e c t." - G r a h a m N a s h
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Mary Stallings - Ronnie Scott's, London
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Mary Stallings: Musician
One LP: Mary Stallings - Live at the Village Vanguard
"Well, in the first
place that was the first live recording that I've done, you know, after, after taking some time out from business and recording with several other labels prior to this recording.
And just the chemistry, everything was right. Actually, Lorraine Gordon pursued me and she said she's trying to find me for three years. And I can tell you how many people she's, you know, tried to, to get me to work her club - Village Vanguard. And so one day - she got my card from somebody and she called me on the phone herself. And I remember I was, was sleeping and woke up and she says, Well, I always imitate her - 'Mary Stallings?' I said yes, she's speaking. She says 'oh boy. I've got her. I've got her on the phone right now.'
And she was so excited. And I said, Lorraine Gordon from the Village Vanguard?
She said, 'Yes, I was going to explain it. I've been trying to get you girl for for three years and finally I gotcha.'
So anyway, I got a chance to perform - work at her club and at the same time I was fortunate enough for the Richard McDonald from the Maxjazz Recordings to summons me - he came out to San Francisco to hear me because he knew I recorded with Concord - I did three projects and he found I was not going to be with anymore because Carl Jefferson, the owner of the recording company, passed away. So anyway, he told me he would love to do some projects with me and I said - oh, of course!
So we did some business and and at the same time Lorraine said ‘It will to be wonderful. You know I've never had another singer to perform and you know, I'm not I really want you to do this.’ And I said oh Lorraine!
So it was really great. So History - she made this happen with along with with MAXJAZZ. So I was thrilled to do it because this is my favourite because it's live. It's really truly I think me. Closer to being me. I'm better myself you know when I can tell a story to people around me and they were just embracing me that night, you know - the audience and, and working with Eric Reed for the first time because I've heard of him so many years you know, this young kid out here killin’ it.
So we came together and did a couple of concerts together and out of out of that this happened. Yeah, so it is my favourite because as I say is closer to being me.
You know - (it shows) the many faces of Mary Stallings I feel, because it shows my roots, my gospel roots, but I kind of have a thing for classical music, and I think there's one song that kind of gives the range of what I really do.
Because just hearing me, you know, ‘straight’ I(but) to really know me is a variety of things that I feel and I have purposes for most of things that I do sing and sometimes some helped me to embellish a little bit more than then I would normally do.
So, like I said, it's just a good feeling and good people in the audience and it was just so excellent night. A night for me to really remember.”
WE “Wonderful. Thank you Mary, just lovely.”
Mary “Oh it's my pleasure.”
Mary Stallings: Ronnie Scott's, London, 21st January 2020
Mary Stalling: "Live at The Village Vanguard"
released 2001
Mary Stallings
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Around 300 sessions @onelp.org
All One LP sessions take place on location. In artist's homes, art galleries, beaches, cafés, conservatoires, hotels, museums, pubs, restaurants, recording and broadcast studios, record stores, at soundchecks, onstage, in green rooms, universities and jazz clubs - including -
Blue Note, Birdland,
The Village Vanguard
Jazz Standard - New York City
Catalina - Los Angeles, Katerina's - Chicago
Ronnie Scott's of London.
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Slum Village: Fantastic, Vol.2
"The reason this album is special to me is because the producer of the album - J Dilla is my favourite hip hop producer and I got the privilige to actually work with him before he passed away in 2006. To work with him - watch him make music - watch him in ‘the lab’ and see how he works.
J Dilla is probably the only producer I know that changed the way musicians actually play their instruments."
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Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, 2011O N E L P
I g g y P o p a n d T h e S t o o g e s:
R a w P o w e r
“It's 'Raw Power' by Iggy and the Stooges it came out in 1973. I heard about it in 1978 I think when I was about fourteen – fifteen.
A bunch of friends that I used to hang out with who were all guitar players at various levels, were a bit older than me, I used to play around at friends houses and one guy said I should check this out because it reminded him of the way I was playing at the time, so that intrigued me.
This name Raw Power kept coming up again and again.
So I got on the bus and went into town to buy it, which was a big deal because I was only a kid and I didn't really have that much money."