Brenda Boykin

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Hard Swing Travellin' Man 06:50 Tools
Love Is in Town 05:20 Tools
Be My Lover 04:07 Tools
Chocolate and Chili 00:00 Tools
Ride Rich Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Wonderful 05:32 Tools
State Side Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Smoove Remix) 00:00 Tools
Listen To The Beat 00:00 Tools
Talk With Your Hands 00:00 Tools
Moaning 04:02 Tools
Across the Stars 00:00 Tools
Freedom Song 00:00 Tools
He doesn't know 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin’ Man - Smoove Remix 00:00 Tools
Rockabye Me 00:00 Tools
Stone Mad 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover (Acoustic Bossa Remix) 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover - Acoustic Bossa Remix 00:00 Tools
Feel Me 00:00 Tools
All the Time in the World 00:00 Tools
Wonderful (JoJo Effect Remix) 00:00 Tools
El Ritmo 00:00 Tools
A Cool Cat In Town 00:00 Tools
Chocolate & Chili 00:00 Tools
Where Is It Written 00:00 Tools
Mambo Jambo 00:00 Tools
This Maybe Game 00:00 Tools
Don't Take My Love Away 00:00 Tools
Straight to Memphis 00:00 Tools
I'll Be With You 00:00 Tools
Let Love Lead the Way 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin’ Man (Smoove Remix) 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me 00:00 Tools
Dancing All Night 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Club des Belugas Remix 00:00 Tools
Ninety Nine 'n a Half 00:00 Tools
La Diva 00:00 Tools
And You Know How 00:00 Tools
U Don't Love Me (I Don't Care) 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover - Original 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Smoove Remix 00:00 Tools
Wonderful - JoJo Effect Remix 00:00 Tools
Be my Lover (acoustic bossa mix) 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin´ Man 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover      04:07 Tools
Pa-Pade Swing 00:00 Tools
Pa-Pade Swing - Koko Chanel Club Mix 00:00 Tools
He Doesn´t Know 00:00 Tools
Be my Lover (Original) - Original 00:00 Tools
Pa-Pade Swing (Koko Chanel Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Album Mix 00:00 Tools
See You Later Alligator 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Skip To The Bip (Funky) 00:00 Tools
Wildcats Gotta Move 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin’ Man 00:00 Tools
Trouble 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin´ Man (Smoove Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rich Rich Rythm 00:00 Tools
Have a Conversation with Your Man 00:00 Tools
Deed I Do 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Club des Belugas Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Mix 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Some Like It Hot (feat. Club des Belugas) 00:00 Tools
01_kiss me 00:00 Tools
Make Love to Me 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Separation Serenade 00:00 Tools
A Cool Cat in Town (feat. Tape Five) 00:00 Tools
Hard swing traveling man 00:00 Tools
Jambalaya 00:00 Tools
Some Like It Hot 00:00 Tools
Straight to Memphis (feat. Club des Belugas) 00:00 Tools
Dibidy Dop 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Mix) 00:00 Tools
What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
It's Been a Long Long Time 00:00 Tools
Far Far Away 00:00 Tools
Hand Swing Travellin' Man 00:00 Tools
Mary Anne (Just Plain Mary Anne) 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Nu Jazz) 00:00 Tools
Heya 00:00 Tools
Skip to the Bip 00:00 Tools
Moaning [jz2] 00:00 Tools
Woderful (Jojo EffectMix) 00:00 Tools
Wonderful ( Featuring Jojo Effect ) 00:00 Tools
Be my Lover (Original) 00:00 Tools
Club Des Belugas - It Don't Mean A Thiing 00:00 Tools
Don’t Take My Love Away 00:00 Tools
He Doesnt Know 00:00 Tools
I’ll be with you 00:00 Tools
Five O'Clock Blues 00:00 Tools
Tunica Country Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Brick House in Memphis 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin`Man 00:00 Tools
Brown Sugar Baby 00:00 Tools
Trying to Get to You 00:00 Tools
Let's Play Rough 00:00 Tools
No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go (With The Johnny Nocturne Band) 00:00 Tools
Ai Se Eu Te Pego - Marcus 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover (acoustic bossa rmx) 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin Man (Album Mix) 00:00 Tools
Ninety Nine ‘n a Half 00:00 Tools
My Babe 00:00 Tools
Chains 00:00 Tools
Crying Time 00:00 Tools
Zydeco Gumbo 00:00 Tools
To Nem Ai - Daniela 00:00 Tools
Wild Is My Love 00:00 Tools
Skip To The Bip Funky Mix 00:00 Tools
He Doesn’t Know 00:00 Tools
Velha Infancia - Banda Bahia 00:00 Tools
Saia e Bicicletinha - Banda Kacamba 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin Man [Lo-Fi 2009] 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin Man 00:00 Tools
Backbreaker 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellinґ Man (Smoove Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rivers of Babylon 00:00 Tools
Wonderful [Jojo Effect Remix] 00:00 Tools
Amor Perfeito - Axe Bahia 00:00 Tools
Wonderful, Chocolate & Chili, 2008 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover [Acoustic Bossa RMX] 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travelin' Man 00:00 Tools
Club Des Belugas - Dibidy Bop 00:00 Tools
Chora, Me Liga - Marcus 00:00 Tools
So Dessa Vez - Bahia Pagode Tropical 00:00 Tools
10_skip_to_the_bip_funky_mix 00:00 Tools
Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu 00:00 Tools
Festa - Marcia B. 00:00 Tools
Tesouro Do Pirata - Balanco Da Danca 00:00 Tools
Nao Olhe Assim - Daniel 00:00 Tools
Chorando Se Foi - Bahia Tropical 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover | Absolut Radio 00:00 Tools
Coracao Radiante - Bahia Pagode Tropical 00:00 Tools
Far Far Away (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
King Ping 00:00 Tools
04_wildcats_gotta_move 00:00 Tools
Chocolate And Chill 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin` Man 00:00 Tools
Ragatanga (Asereje) [Remix] - Axe Bahia 00:00 Tools
O Grande Amor Da Minha Vida (Convite De Casamento) - Banda Mar Azul 00:00 Tools
Dat Thang 00:00 Tools
Be my Love 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Brenda Boykin 00:00 Tools
HARD SWING TRAVELLIN MAN (CLUB DES BELUGAS REMIX) 00:00 Tools
Be My Lover [Acoustic Bossa Remix] 00:00 Tools
LOVE IS IN TOWN - VIDEO 2008 (CLUB DE BELUGAS-BEBO BEST & Super Lounge Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Spur 7 00:00 Tools
"Wonderful" 00:00 Tools
Hard Swing Travellin´ Man (Smo 00:00 Tools
Love Is Im Town 00:00 Tools
Love Is In Town 2008 00:00 Tools
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Brenda calls it "Bourbon and Cornbread," the musical mixture of jazzy sweetness and down-home sass that marks her as "the most authentic and most inventive female jump blues vocal stylist of her generation," according to blues historian Lee Hildebrand. Brenda Boykin has earned a sterling reputation in the San Francisco Bay Area as a masterful interpreter of jazz and blues material gleaned from big bands, old blues hands, and honky tonk heroes. Boykin has firmly established herself as an unsurpassed vocal talent whose elixir of bourbon and cornbread - sounds from silk to sandpaper - delight both new listeners and purists who compare her to the giants of the past. A native of Oakland, California, Boykin's first musical experience came through the youth choir of the North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church, one of the many houses of the lord where raucous, heart-felt sounds of the faithful still ring out on the wide streets of the East Bay flatlands. The church strains can still be found in her rich, husky contralto, effortless power and controlled vocal passion. After studying the clarinet in high school Boykin entered the University of California at Berkeley - and though studying psychology and social welfare - gravitated toward the jazz bands working on and near campus. Boykin worked Bay Area jazz and blues hot spots that helped her expand her musical horizons. With the encouragement of family friend and guitarist Sonny Lane, Boykin began to dig in with the blues people at Oaklands's legendary Eli's Mile High Club. The famous North Oakland night spot has been for many years the heartbeat of East Bay blues life, with giant figures including Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin gracing the small stage alongside lesser-known stalwarts including guitarist and arranger Johnny Heartsman, Sonny Lane and Mississippi Johnny Waters. Under tutelage of Lane, Waters and drummer Francis Clay - an influential force in the great Muddy Waters bands of the late '50's and early '60's - Boykin absorbed the laid back, call-and-response magic of the late night urban blues. "Boykin does delightfully unfamiliar things with familiar tunes," said the East Bay Express in 1988, "using her rhythmic authority and arranger's sensibility to create exciting new version" of tunes from Basie, B.B., Buck Owens and everybody in between. She often cites Sarah Vaughn as a major influence, but Brenda Joyce Boykin is certainly not a devotee to any one stylist or genre. She says that the incomparable blue balladeer Bobby "Blue" Bland, whose string of hits dates back to the early '50s, has had an enormous impact to her vocal approach. She also gives a nod to Brenda lee and Elvis Presley, LaVern Baker and even the "divorcee music" of Nancy Wilson and Dakota Staton. Boykin has won rave reviews for her repeat performances at the venerable Monterey Jazz Festival, the more boisterous Monterey Bay Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Davenport, Iowa, the DuMaurier Jazz Festival in Vancouver, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. For many years she has performed duets with her "musical soul mate" Eric Swinderman, a sensitive guitarist who accompanies Boykin on material ranging from New Orleans rhythms to jazz standards. Boykin has performed countless times with Home Cookin', a small combo with a changing roster that has included guitarists Anthony Paule and Steve Freund, pianists Steve Lucky and Caroline Dahl, bassist Tim Wagar and drummer Tyler Eng. For the past three years Boykin has also taught singing workshops at the Rhythmic Concepts Jazz Camp, alongside a roster of the San Francisco Bay Area's most celebrated and dedicated jazz musicians. Boykin has mastered all of the crafts of a complete vocalist, she has a rich voice, a masterful grasp of musical dynamics, and a natural, unforced empathy with her listeners. "Part of showmanship is to turn to the guitar player and bass player and exchange some energy, look him in the eye and say 'Yeah, Baby,'" Boykin told Blues Revue in 1995. "I'm like the party master. The way a hostess gets at a house party. I'm walking around making sure the energy is up in every part of the room." In 1997 Brenda received a BAMMIE nomination for Best Vocalist of The Year. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.