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Video: Woody Shaw – 'But not for me'
24 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube Often referred to as the “last innovator” in the jazz trumpet lineage, Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century. Born with a photographic memory Continue reading
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Video: Landfill Harmonic film teaser
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. Continue reading
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Bheki Mseleku ‘Love Joe’
The sadly missed Bheki Mseleku who died in 2008, another South African musical genius. Drums – Elvin Jones Saxophone – Ravi Coltrane Cornet – Graham Haynes Bass – Michael Bowie Piano – Bheki Mseleku From the album Beauty of Sunrise. Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon in Valencia – And the Bush Burned
The concert, an hour and a half of intense musical emotions, was based on four themes taken from two important albums of the group, MusiK (2004) and Refuge (2007), in which Atzmon articulated and developed a line of reasoning and discourse that is explicitly dedicated to describing through chromatic scales the current Iraqi tragedy undertaken… Continue reading
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Communicating with the ancestors by William Bowles
14 September 2007 Hip-Hop forever I’ve been a fan of hip-hop music ever since it broke out of the Bronx in the late 70s. In those days it is true to say that hip-hop was very much a New York thing reflecting its Black/Hispanic roots in uptown Manhattan and the Bronx. And then there was Continue reading
The New Dark Age 