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Derek Trucks Band – Live at Detroit Jazz Fest
This is Derek Trucks and his band playing “I Wish I Knew” – recorded live at the 29th Detroit International Jazz Festival, September 1, 2008.
The full title of the song is “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”.
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say …
The song was written by Dr. Billy Taylor (along with Dick Dallas?) back in 1954. It was originally recorded by Nina Simone in 1967 on her Silk and Soul album. Billy Taylor also recorded his own instrumental version back in 1967. He said that he wrote the song (perhaps his best known composition) for his daughter Kim, describing it as a very spiritual song.
“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” was used as a theme song on the BBC, a theme song for the 2004 Olympics, as music for a Coca-Cola commercial, and also served as an anthem for the civil-rights movement.
The video quality (on this youtube video) is not that great, but I think it’s the perfect way to close out this labor day weekend I Love Detroit series, and as Mike Mattison sings at the end of the video — Everyone Should Be Free!
It’s just like Donald Miller said in Blue Like Jazz: “jazz music was invented by the first generation out of slavery… it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul … It is a music birthed out of freedom.”
Myths of Innovation – at CMU
Scott Berkun returned to his alma-mater, Carnige Mellon University, on March 27th, 2008 to talk about his book, The Myths of Innovation. This 51 minute video captures the talk, where he presented a few of the ideas from the book.
Berkun is a former manager / team-leader from Microsoft — now a successful author and public speaker. While at Microsoft, Scott worked for six years on the Internet Explorer browser, during the browser wars of the 90′s. So he knows a few things about creativity, team-work, innovation, perseverance, tenacity, and success habits.
People love new ideas. People love innovative new products.
Scott’s job at Microsoft was to come up with new ideas — innovative ideas. But his job involved more then just coming up new ideas. He had to lead his team to develop the ideas into new product features and functions quickly as possible and ship a new version out as quickly as possible.
In this video (borrowing some great material from the book) Scott shows that much of what we know (or what we think we know) about innovation is wrong — as he explores the history of innovation and creative thinking.
Travelin’ Blues — I am Detroit
Here’s a short video from Mr. Travelin Blues of Detroit.
I love Detroit. I love the people of Detroit… and I love Mr. Travelin Blues from Detroit … the other day we stood and talked for a while by the SMART bus stop near St. Andrews Hall. A lot of days you can find him downtown (playing his guitar and singing the blues) in Greek Town, near Pegasus, the new Greek Town Hotel, or old St. Mary’s church.