music
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘The Mountain / Nisa / Mississippi’
17 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian 2011. Filmed in Plaza de la Trinidad, Donosti, Spain. Beautiful music Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, piano, Cleave Guyton, alto sax, flute, Keith Loftis , tenor sax, Andrae Murchinson, trombone, Toni Kofi, baritone sax, Belden Bullock, bass, George Gray, drums Continue reading
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Three Duke Ellington Classics: Medley – Black and Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooch
16 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube I think I could have been no more than 13 or perhaps 14 when I bought my first jazz album and it was the 1957 classic, ‘Duke Ellington Presents – The Bethlehem Years Volume 2’ made I think after his epic return to fame at the Continue reading
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Housmans Books News Update: Ticket offer/ Ralph Miliband Sale/ Late additions to October events
2 Otober 2013 — Housmans NEWS UPDATE1. Housmans Peace Diary 2014 2. Special Offer for Housmans supporters – half-price tickets to a benefit gig for our sister organisation Peace News‘COME OUT! WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED: A Celebration of People Power’ Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in Tokyo 1961
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Tokyo 1961 – Lee Morgan, trumpet – Wayne Shorter, tenor sax – Bobby Timmons, piano – Jymie Merritt, bass Continue reading
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Housmans Books London – Newsletter July 2013
21 June 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Reading and discussion groups at Housmans 2. Supporters Card Continue reading
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society – 'Brooklyn Babylon — Chapter Five'
Weaving together progressive jazz, early-American popular styles, Balkan folk musics, and the sounds of Brooklyn’s diverse contemporary music scene — from the dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem and experimental indie rock of Dirty Projectors to Missy Mazzoli’s blend of post-rock and quirky minimalism — Argue creates a vividly evocative musical narrative that is at once timeless… Continue reading
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Fania Allstars with Celia Cruz Live in Africa
The greatest Salsa band to come out of Nueva York! Recorded in Kinshasa, Congo in 1974 as part of Mohammed Ali’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. One and a half hours of fantastic music. Continue reading
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Michael Franti & Spearhead – ‘We Don’t Mind’
One of my favourite artists, this track is from the ‘Stay Human’ album recorded in 1991. Conscious music. Continue reading
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Media Lens: When The Next Moment Matters More: ‘The Special One’ – Part 3 By David Edwards
And how amazing, we treat the planet exactly as we treat the present moment: as an intrinsically worthless resource to be ridden, used, exploited on the way to ‘better’ and ‘more’. Our world is being made a hell by the pursuit of seven billion personal utopias, rendered uninhabitable by people who never inhabit the present. Continue reading
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'Manteca!' – The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with Chano Pozo
Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie’s recordings (along with the earlier “A Night in Tunisia”) and is “one of the most important records ever made in the United States,” according to Gary Giddins of the Village Voice. Continue reading
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Video: Bill Evans Trio at the BBC
‘Jazz 625’, recorded at the BBC Studios, London, on March 19th, 1965. Bill Evans – Piano, Chuck Israel – Bass, Larry Bunker – Drums. Continue reading
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Postcard from the End of America: Cheyenne By Linh Dinh
Carless, with my Virginia driver’s license long expired, I’ve ridden countless coaches across town, state and country. I’ve rolled with a vast army of losers, but, like I’ve insisted many times, losing is not easy, in this or any other culture. To lose day in and day out requires all of your physical, mental and… Continue reading
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Jacob Collier sings 'Pure Imagination'
Got sent this by a companero: an interesting video by Jacob Collier doing a rendition of the title song from ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Pure Imagination’ with Collier doing six-part harmony and on melodica. Enjoy Continue reading
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Michel Camillo 'Calle 54'
An excellent documentary on Latin music, ‘Calle 54’ by Spanish director Fernando Trueba. Michel Camillo plays ‘From Within’. Also in the video: Paquito De Rivera, Bebo y Chucho Valdes, Eliane Elias Trio, Chano Domínguez, Tito Puente & Amigos. Continue reading
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Video: Cuba Feliz – A Trip Through Cuba
Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost By David Edwards
There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are ‘special’. But no matter how hard we try, our achievements continue to fall and vanish into the void. Continue reading
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Video: The End of Squatting in the UK?
Calls from within government to fully criminalise squatting gather momentum. It could have serious implications for political occupations, and will it backfire on the government’s plans to reduce its welfare budget? (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: Mucho Frio By S. Artesian
When it gets cold like this—(‘How cold is it?’ the disembodied voice of Ed McMahon asks in my very much embodied brain)—like well below thirty degrees (Fahrenheit), and twenty nine is well below thirty when we get down in this range, I know what to do. Continue reading
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Video: Gilad Atzmon & the OHE 'Songs Of The Metropolis'
10 January 2013 — Youtube A film by Tali Atzmon Gilad Atzmon & the OHE Songs Of The Metropolis. Some of Gilad’s wonderful music plus his musings on ‘multi-culturalism’ etc. Continue reading
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Video: Happy Birthday Max Roach 'Live at Blues Alley'
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in the Township of Newland, North Carolina and moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when he was four years old. Max began playing bugle at a young age and was playing drums with gospel groups by the time he was ten years old. Continue reading
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