Sharon Lafaye Jones (May 4, 1956 – November 18, 2016) was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York.
By the sound of them, you would have thought Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings started making funk-threaded soul music together in the 1960s. Few devotedly retro acts were as convincing. Few singers as skilled as Sharon Jones would be willing to invest in a sound so fully occupied by the likes of Bettye LaVette and Tina Turner in the
Ike years, too. But what Jones brought to the funkified table had legs of its own -- eight of them, to be exact -- and they belonged to Binky Griptite, Bugaloo Velez, Homer Steinweiss, and Dave Guy -- her Dap-Kings.
Jones, like James Brown, was born in Augusta, Georgia;
there she sang in her church choir.. As a teenager, she moved with her family
to the Bedford Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York. In 1975, she
graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. She attended Brooklyn
College. She immersed herself in 1970s disco and funk with an eye
toward cutting a record of her own. Instead, studios came calling and with them
steady work
By her twenties, Jones was turning in backup vocals for
gospel, soul, disco, and blues artists, most of it uncredited. In the '80s,
however, Jones' sound was deemed unfashionable, and instead of pushing ahead
with her soul diva's dream she went back to church singing. She also took a job
as a corrections officer at New York's Rikers Island.
Jones released her
first full-length with the Dap-Kings, Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones & the
Dap-Kings, after signing with Daptone Records in 2002. Years of touring behind
it, as well as cutting singles with other artists (including Greyboy) ensued.
In 2005, Jones re-teamed with the Dap-Kings for the winking groovefest
Naturally, following it up two years later with 100 Days, 100 Nights. Jones
also had a bit part in The Great Debaters as the singer Lila. A new studio
effort, I Learned the Hard Way, appeared in 2010.
Jones has sometimes been called, especially early in her
late renaissance of a career, the Female James Brown. Amongst Jones' influences
were James Brown, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Thom Bell, Otis
Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Marva Whitney and everyone from Motown. In
addition, Jones also cited more recently known artists, such as Michael Jackson,
Prince, Erykah Badu and Beyoncé
In 2013, Jones revealed that she had been diagnosed with
cancer -- initially in the bile ducts, and later advanced to stage two
pancreatic cancer -- but she continued to perform as often as her therapy
schedule would permit, sometimes appearing on-stage with a bald head after
chemotherapy caused her hair to fall out.
In late 2013, Jones was well enough to complete work on
the next Dap-Kings album, and Give the People What They Want appeared in
January 2014. Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple premiered a
film about the vocalist, Miss Sharon Jones!, at the 2015 Toronto International
Film Festival; Jones was in attendance for the debut screening, and revealed
that her cancer had returned, but defiantly added, "I'm gonna keep
fighting, we got a long way to go."
Fittingly, the determined Jones and the Dap-Kings
returned in October 2015 with a collection of Christmas and Hanukkah tunes
titled It's a Holiday Soul Party. As the film Miss Sharon Jones! was poised to
go into theatrical release, in August 2016 Daptone Records released an original
soundtrack album. “Miss Sharon Jones! “ which featured a selection of Jones'
most memorable performances along with a new track, the autobiographical
"I'm Still Here."
Sadly, however, she would lose her valiant battle with
cancer, which took her life, at age 60, in Cooperstown, New York of November of
that year. Shortly before her death, Jones completed vocals for a final album
with the Dap-Kings. That album, Soul of a Woman, was released in November 2017,
a year after her death.
(Edited from
Wikipedia but mainly All Music bio by Tammy La Gorce)
9 comments:
Managed to find most of Sharon’s discography with the Dap-Kings
1) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Dap-Dippin' With... (2002)
https://mega.nz/#!5ep1SYbC!JRVIe4NWX5k1R0PmOKZjoW6NQrVwQMpn7HkQ2f7eKmA
Active link thanks to Javanes @ somvalvulado.blog
2) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Naturally (2005)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/24dnynnmmei/Naturally.rar
Active link thanks to curitibaonjamaicanbreeze.blog
3) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (2007)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/55jncu12dto/100+Days+100+Nights.rar
Active link thanks to curitibaonjamaicanbreeze.blog
4) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way (2010)
https://mega.nz/#!hAcgkK5B!KFgSeTFxdAkYGbXMxeflU52uX2Aja4vkm7lJoM94ISg
Active link thanks to Breu @ somvalvulado.blog
5) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Soul Time (2011)
http://uploaded.net/file/iwp4ua12
Active link thanks to matlo44funkytown.eklablog
6) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want (2014)
https://www.upload.ee/files/9913960/sharon_jones_-_Give_the_people.rar.html
Thanks to audiotut for mp3s
7) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - It's A Holiday Soul Party (2015)
https://www.upload.ee/files/9915192/Sharon_Jones___The_Dap-Kings_-_Holiday.rar.html
Thanks to anon @ Israbox
8) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman (2017)
http://alfafile.net/file/nkfR
Active link thanks to mike1985 @jazznblues.club
My missing album is:-
9) Miss Sharon Jones! (soundtrack/compilation, 2016)
Any help would be appreciated!
R.I.P. You are missed.
Around ten or so years ago, Booker T & the MG's gave a free outdoor summer concert along the Hudson River here in lower Manhattan, and they followed an hour or so of their instrumental classics with a set of songs they'd recorded with Otis Redding, with Ms. Jones singing. A wonderful afternooon that was.
https://www.upload.ee/files/9920345/Miss_Sharon_Jones.rar.html
Wow thanks Jake. I've just found the 1996 album of the Soul Providers - "Soul Tequila" where Sharon Jones sings on two tracks.....if you're interested.
Yes Bob, I'm interested ! TIA.
Artist: The Soul Providers feat. Lee Fields & Sharon Jones
Album: Soul Tequila
Genre: Funk, Soul
Label: C & S Records
Released: 1997
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
1. Steam Train (feat. Lee Fields) 3:07
2. Gimme The Paw 3:45
3. Huh! Funky Rudolph Strut 2:26
4. Who Knows 3:20
5. Switchblade (feat. Sharon Jones) 3:35
6. Let A Man Do What He Wanna Do (feat. Lee Fields) 2:59
7. Soul Tequila 3:24
8. The Landlord (feat. Sharon Jones) 2:33
9. Lea's Rice Pudding 3:10
10. Hey Hey Mr Brown 4:04
11. Mr Kesselman (Pt. 1) 2:54
12. Mr Kesselman (Instrumental) 2:41
A big thank you to Mike1985 @ jazznblues club for original post
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7k5riadtic6bvu7/The_Soul_Providers_-_Soul_Tequilla_%281996%29_%5BFLAC%5D.rar/file
And thank you again !
Thanks BoppinBob for this i caught act in austaliqa not long before her passing i think it was treetime i saw her live great act and great band
Thanks Pedro
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