Chocolate...

Eating one piece of chocolate at a time…

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Howlin’ Wolf – Chocolate Drop

may not be about strength or capacity.

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Bobby Rush #1 Chocolate City Cam

“The ingredient that gives chocolate its flavour is called cacao.

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The Blues Machine · Count Basie & His Orchestra
88 Basie Street ℗ 1984 Fantasy, Inc. Released: 1984-01-01 Piano: Count Basie, Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Bob Summers, Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Sonny Cohn, Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Frank Szabo, Trumpet: Dale Carley, Trumpet: Jim Crawford, Trombone: Mitchell Wood, Trombone: Grover Mitchell, Trombone: Dennis Wilson, Trombone: Bill Hughes, Saxophone, Flute: Eric Dixon, Saxophone, Flute: Eric Schneider, Saxophone, Flute: Danny Turner, Saxophone, Flute: Christopher Woods, Saxophone: John Williams, Bass ( Vocal): Cleveland Eaton, Drums: Dennis Mackrel Producer: Norman Granz Composer Lyricist: Sammy Nestico

Cacao is sourced from the fermented fruit of, you guessed it, the cacao tree. These trees are grown in regions close to the equator, like Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Ghana, Brazil and Mexico. The main chemical component of cacao is called theobromine, which is a compound similar to caffeine in that it is also a mild stimulant. …

https://youtu.be/cROOfFnisDk Chocolate Buttermilk · Kool & The Gang ℗ 1970 The Island Def Jam Music Group Released on: 1970-01-01 Producer: Kool & The Gang Producer: Ronald Nathan Bell; Composer Lyricists: Robert Bell, George Melvin Brown, Claydes Eugene Smith, Dennis Ronald Thomas, Gene C. Redd, Robert Spike Mickens, Richard Westfield, Woodrow Sparrow and Ronald Nathan Bell

… Theobromine is also a vasodilator, which means that it causes blood vessels to expand and blood pressure and heart rate to drop when ingested. In sum, it’s a stimulant that makes you feel relaxed.”

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Kate Morrison – Chocolate Bar Blues

“By itself, cacao (or cocoa) powder doesn’t taste all that great. Therefore, other ingredients are added to chocolate to make it palatable. This consists of sugar (like a truckload of sugar) and cocoa butter. The other ingredients depend on the type of chocolate. For the darker varieties, these three ingredients are pretty much it. For milk chocolate, milk powder is added. For white chocolate, the cacao is taken out…”

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Tom Waits – Chocolate Jesus

“Most historians suggest that people have been consuming chocolate for around 2000 years. Note the distinction between ‘consuming’ and ‘eating,’ as for the majority of its history, chocolate was drunk in a liquid form. It was only in the mid-1800s that chocolate was developed in a powdered form, and in 1847 the first chocolate bar was created by Joseph Fry.”

https://owlcation.com/stem/The-Science-of-Chocolate

“enkephalin” triggers opioid receptors, the very same ones activated by drugs such as morphine and heroin. Basically, eating chocolate heightens your levels of enkephalin, and heightened levels of enkephalin lead you to want to eat more chocolate”

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Blues: Boo Boo Davis – Chocolate

“The 1924 debut of The Chocolate Dandies was produced by Bertram Cecil Whitney (1870–1929). Eubie Blake composed the music; Noble Sissle wrote the lyrics and co-authored the book; Lew Payton was also co-author; Julian Mitchell staged it; Lorenzo C. Calduel (aka Lawrence Caldwell; born 1888, Mexico) scored the orchestral and vocal parts; John Newton Booth, Jr. (1890–1949), Kiviette,[Note 1] and Hugh Willoughby (1891–1973) designed the costumes; Tony Greshoff (né Anton Greshoff; 1870–1943) did the lighting design.”

NOTE: “Chocolate Dandies” was a name used by a number of different jazz ensembles in the United States from the 1920s into the 1940s. The name “Chocolate Dandies” originally came from a 1924 stage show written by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle. A unit led by Don Redman was the first to record with it on the Okeh label in 1928-1929. He also recorded with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and released material with that ensemble under this name.

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The Chocolate Dandies – Blue Interlude Don Redman was the first to record with the name “Chocolate Dandies” on the Okeh label in 1928–1929. He also recorded with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and released material with that ensemble under this name.
Musicians: Langston Curl (1899–1991), John Nesbitt (1900–1935) (de) (trumpets); Claude Jones (trombone); Don Redman, Milton Senior (1900–1948) (alto saxes, clarinets); George Thomas (1902–1930), Prince Robinson (tenor saxes, clarinets); Todd Rhodes (piano); Dave Wilborn (banjo); Lonnie Johnson (guitar on “Paducah” and “Star Dust”); Ralph Escudero (tuba); Cuba Austin (drums); Redman, Thomas, Wilborn (vocal trio on “Four or Five Times”)

https://youtu.be/p1O5RNzXWV0 The Chocolate Dandies – Dee Blues, Fox-Trot (B.Carter) Odeon 1930 (Recorded in New York; German release)

Benny Carter had several ensembles in the 1930s which he called the Chocolate Dandies; versions of these groups continued to play into the 1940s, and counted among their members Coleman Hawkins, Max Kaminsky, Buck Clayton, and some members of Fletcher Henderson’s band. In this recording, the Chocolate Dandies include: Rex Stewart (cnt) Leonard Davis (tp) J.C. Higginbotham (tb) Benny Carter (cl) Don Redman (as) Coleman Hawkins (ts) Fats Waller (p) Bobby Johnson (bj) Cyrus St. Clair (tu) George Stafford (d).