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We Got The Jazz
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11.28.11[Unreleased] Amy Winehouse – HalftimeWhen first reported in July of 2010, imaginations began to stir: what brilliance would spring forth from the collaboration of Questlove, Salaam Remi and Amy Winehouse? Continue Reading...
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05.28.11[R.I.P.] Gil Scott-Heron: Poet, Musician, RevolutionaryI am unqualified to write about Gil Scott-Heron's life or death, and I want you to know that I know this before I write about him or what I think his music means to the world and to me. I make no pretense of authority, knowledge, insight, personal interaction with or particular credible depth with which to pursue writing about him. What I can tell you is that everything I do know of Gil Scott-Heron I learned because of how deeply and profoundly his work moved and continues to move me and the understandings I am grateful for ...
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04.22.11[Glitch-Hop] Free The Robots @ Hi-Tone 22 AprilTonight at Hi-Tone Cafe, Memphis will be treated to a visit from Santa Ana, CA's genre-bending glitch-hop collective Free The Robots. Continue Reading...
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03.31.11[Thursday Throwback] Herb Alpert – RotationArtist: Herb Alpert Label: A&M Catalogue: AMS 7500 Date: 1980 Format: 7" Highest Chart Position: 30 [US Billboard Hot 100 Singles] Continue Reading...
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03.21.11[VIDEO] Kutiman – My Favorite ColorNever ceasing to amaze and fascinate, Kutiman (whose groundbreaking Thru-You video album was chosen by Time Magazine as One of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009) has returned with another video in the vein of the Thru-You series. Digging on an even deeper level, he returns to form with this new song entitled "My Favorite Color". This bit of smoothed-out jazz is in a class of its own, furthering the mystique that Kutiman has helped to generate in a class of his own. Kutiman - My Favorite Color
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03.03.11[Throwback] Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity GriotsOne of the illest and most unique hip-hop acts to emerge from the early 1990's in Los Angeles was the collective of Aceyalone, Myka 9, Self Jupiter, P.E.A.C.E. and DJ Kiilu -- otherwise known to the world as Freestyle Fellowship, whose impact is unquestionable and about whom not nearly enough is written. Emerging from a burgeoning West Coast hip hop scene, FF unleashed their visions with precision --- jazz-laden beats supporting untouchable improvisational lyrical skills (the true forefathers of both horror and backpack), scatting, a strong Afrocentric message, skits built into songs, intellectual raps and styles that few other ...
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08.12.10Dexter Wansel – You Can Be What You Wanna BeContinue Reading...
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11.23.09Skinnerbox : Jazz outfits, New Wave mouths and Disco bodies #MusicMondayThe duo of Olaf Hilgenfeld and Iftah Gabbai is definitely not your run-of-the-mill techno, disco or jazz. So then, color me intrigued by Skinnerbox & their unusual (and efficient marriage) of disparate styles, particularly when it matches so clearly with the musical calico I'm hearing out of European electronic music lately. There's a taste of Richie Hawtin meets Mark Farina meets 808 State in these songs. Do I have your attention? Under the surface, there are also tastes of Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones influence in this particular collection, dotted with edgy Grace Jones/Nina Hagen/Lene Lovich-esque ...
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11.17.09Gil Scott-Heron returns from the edge with a new album.The legendary Gil-Scott Heron, the black radical poet, musician, composer, author, purveyor of spoken word and singer (whom many refer to lovingly with titles like "the black Bob Dylan" and "the godfather of rap"), has been long presumed dead due to his conspicuous absence from music. Though kept alive through retrospectives and reverential referencing of him by those whom he influenced, Scott-Heron himself seemingly vanished 15 years ago after an experimental and efficacious music career which spanned four decades. Like several of his contemporaries, Scott-Heron accrued a tremendous following and much of his success during the 1970's and 1980's, ...
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07.21.08A Song To Start Your Day: I Am The Black Gold of the Sun remixed by 4HeroI just haven't been updating lately and I don't know why. I am listless and bored with everything (not to mention being deep in the struggle), I found myself sleeping less and writing more. Just not here. It's the mid-summer lull before the cool of autumn prevails. I'm an autumn baby, you see, so we suddenly bloom when the leaves are turning their cool oranges and muted browns and such. Anyways, in my sullied state, I've found myself returning over and over to this song all week. Inspired by a request from I'm Waking ...
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