Greetings Folks,
By now the word is out, our brother, Ulysses Slaughter has made his transition and there will be many celebrations of this great musician's life, but it all starts on Friday. Below is the information, let us all come out and celebrate the life of one of legends as he makes his journey to become one of the ancestors.
The funeral is Friday October 10, 2008 at First AME Zion Church 54 Macdounough Street @ Tompkins. The viewing is from 3-7. The service is at 7:00pm. The Burial is Saturday October 11, at 9:00am. The reception to follow will be at Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Center 721 Lincoln Place Between Nostrand & Rogers. Also the departure for the burial service is from Dekalb Funeral Home Dekalb Avenue corner of Franklin.
ULYSSES SLAUGHTER
Ulysses Slaughter hails from Brooklyn, New York. He started singing in church at an early age. Over the years, he studied voice under the tutelage of Ms. Veta Worrell, Mr. Ray Mc Dermott, Ms. Cynthia B. Franklyn, Mr. Edward Boatner and Miss Lola Hayes. He was the recipient of a vocal scholarship from Kingsborough Community College and Brooklyn College, receiving a degree in Vocal Music from the latter.
Mr. Slaughter counts it a privilege to have performed at some of New Yorks most famous churches, jazz clubs and concert halls. These include, among others, the legendary Carnegie Recital Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Billy Holiday Theatre, Pumpkins and The Green Street Café. He has performed with Virginia Capers and Julius La Rosa on the Cerebral Palsy Telethon and with opera great Robert Merrill on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Other television and radio appearances include "Ulysses and Friends" (Manhattan Cable) and recording jingles for Chrysler automobiles and Pepsi Cola.
In Europe he has performed in Paris at the Plaza Athenne Hotel, Requin Chagrin, Au Duc Du Lombard and presently has a playback at the Parabis Latin.
Mr. Slaughter performed at the Marylou Williams Jazz Festival at the world-renowned Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
He lived and performs music as the universal language, proven time and time again, for he has taken his stylings to the church, the jazz clubs and to the concert hall with equal dignity and ease.
Greetings Jazz Lovers,
We have just lost one of our family members, my brother with the voice and "tude" to go along with it. I'm talking about none other than the one and only, ULYSSES SLAUGHTER JR.... My brother! Our Brother!!!
We all remember when he was at death's door with cancer and we all prayed for him and brought him back, well this time, we were just caught off guard and he left us last Friday, so sudden. The week before we were taken the train back to Brooklyn from Saint Nick's Pub (yes he took the subways sometimes) and he told me he was going to perform for the legendary Nancy Wilson at the Schromberg Center Research in Black Culture on Saturday, (He said it with his coolness, but one could tell he was excited) and that he would come down to Banana Puddin' Jazz afterwards to see the new installment of The Gentle Gentlemen in Jazz and I told him to make sure he came down that night because I wanted to give him my Rome Neal Shakara Award for his commitment and love of the music. You see ULYSSES was one of the members of the first Gentle Gentlemen in Jazz show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe three months ago and we were and are so elated that he blessed the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Banana Puddin' Jazz series with his presence and voice on that marvtastic night. You see ULYSSES made us all so gay (in a very happy way). During that subway ride back to Brooklyn he said he was going to get down and be a Banana Puddin' Jazz sponsor this up & coming series. Well Mr. Slaughter as I told you are down!!! Not only are you down as a sponsor, but the next two Banana Puddin' Jazz nights in the series (before we go to the open mic segment) there will be a video tribute to you singing four of the great jazz standards as only you can sing them along with your duet with me on "Oo Bla Dee" and of course your performance with the group on "My One And Only Love". (see clip below)
"THANK YOU to whoever posted this. RIP Ulysses. I love and miss you so much. What a blessing to be able to see him in "DIVO" mode, full of life. Blessings."
comment from SwanVocals
Here's To Life, Here's To Love,
Ulysses Slaughter Jr.,
Here's To You,
Rome Neal
My Brother and Me
photo Lauryn Jackson
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