This blog is a compendium of most of my activities at first on most of YouTube’s “chemtrail” video comments boxes during the latter half of 2007, continuing on into 2008, where I was banned from YouTube (fol
In 2010, he was selected for the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame. He continues to create projects in multifaceted settings for listeners around the world. Complete Transcript: View PDF First Coming Across Latin Music Listen On Himself as a Musician Listen Social Aspect and Power of the Group ...
jazz,musical form, often improvisational, developed byAfrican Americansand influenced by both European harmonic structure andAfricanrhythms. It was developed partially from ragtime andbluesand is often characterized by syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, often del...
His infectious brand of hard bop and soul jazz would later undergo a stylistic shift towards a smoother, more populist aesthetic, helping him achieve a level of popular success that very few jazz musicians managed, before his life was sadly cut short at the height of his popularity. 37.Lester...
The most important experiment in the past few years was taking jazz into squats and social centres. In this year of the Lord 2006, a B-Boy or B-Gal from the 'hood (in Bologna or Manila, in La Paz or Nairobi) is unaware of how much the music she loves owes to jazz. She only ...
); the spine of my design was partially wrapped to the front cover; the cover colouring was way off; the size of the actual book was too large (not the standard size which I’ve always chosen); there were orphans and widows all over the place (those refer to “abandoned” text, ...
He is driven by the social and revolutionary potential of real-time interactive performance in which tradition and practice become creative problematics. As a constructor of musical automata, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts; artifacts that amplify social...
all of the negative things that was going on at the time. Racism, social injustice, economic injustice. The ‘Birds would sing and it would just seem that heaven came open and God had come down. We just felt like we could deal more with what we had to de...
there must be a substantial appetite for jazz and funk music created during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Soul of a Nation: Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher is another new three-album collection covering the era of the Black Arts Movement, when jazz, funk, fusion and street...
It was developed partially from ragtime and blues and is often characterized by syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, often deliberate deviations of pitch, and the use of original timbres. Any attempt to arrive at a precise, all-encompassing definition of...