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Black Lives: People Of Earth
by Glenn Astarita
Black Lives is not just a band; it is a movement. Comprised of globally recognized artists across generations and genres, their mission transcends mere musical performance. They aim for a utopia, especially in these turbulent times where words of hate and racism proliferate faster than cat videos on the internet. Now more than ever, their cause is vital. The album does not veer away from its intentions: to raise awareness, inspire change, and celebrate unity. Musicians from the ...
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Jean-Paul Bourelly: Black Lives - From Generation to Generation
by Vic Albani
Doppio CD o doppio vinile prodotto in HI-Res e con packaging di lusso dalla Jammin'colorS, agenzia per artisti jazz, world, funk, alternativi, hip-hop, electro e sperimentali nonché etichetta indipendente. Il lavoro che ha pubblicato in tanta pompa magna è un ampio collage di musica nera realizzato da 25 musicisti africani, caraibici e afroamericani guidati dalla visione creativa di Stefany Calembert (compagna del bassista jazz Reggie Washington) e produttrice estemporanea dell'etichetta belga. A tutti è stato chiesto di comporre ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Black Lives - From Generation to Generation
by Glenn Astarita
Indeed, African Americans are the architects of several musical formations, hearkening back to Scott Joplin's development of 'ragged' rhythms i.e., Ragtime, along with blues, funk, jazz, and other genres, often evolving into various tangents and offshoots. And on this comprehensively entertaining set produced by Belgian Stefany Calembert with assistance from her husband and acclaimed bassist Reggie Washington, they righteously bestow Black Music as a “source of moral truth and potent weapon against racism." Numerous stars such as saxophonist ...
Continue ReadingJean Paul Bourelly: News from a Darked Out Room
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Jean Paul Bourelly spiazza tutti con un album in solo alla chitarra acustica, una escursione appassionata nei territori del blues inteso come trascrizione dei singulti dell’anima. Ancestrali scenari haitiani si materializzano senza sosta e mettono a nudo la magia che sta dietro alla capacità di esprimere sentimenti veri, brucianti di crudele attualità. Uno sforzo apprezzabile per il chitarrista nato a Chicago e vissuto pericolosamente fra jazz e rock alternativo, con il funky a fare da ticchettio di fondo ...
Continue ReadingJean-Paul Bourelly: Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II)
by Greg Martino
Jean-Paul Bourelly’s new CD, Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II), extends and solidifies the heavy funk and electronic concept of the excellent 1999 release Boom Bop. Trance Atlantic ’s central musical idea involves a strong groove that often overlays the ostensible frontline of lead guitar, cornet, sax, or trombone. The music partakes of the current vocabulary of dance music, electronica, trip hop, or whatever, but Bourelly’s take on the genre doesn’t sound sampled, canned or repetitive. Instead, he creates a constantly ...
Continue ReadingJean-Paul Bourelly: Trance-Atlantic (Boom Bop II)
by Phil DiPietro
With the release of Trance-Atlantic (Boom Bop II), Jean-Paul Bourelly again shows us all that he is not only today’s guitar-playing acid-funk archetype, but a bold conceptualist bravely and pointedly mixing disparate elements to create a genre all his own. With the Boom-Bops, Jean-Paul, in his own words, finds out, “what it would be like if African poetry could exist in a constantly changing harmonic world with a more playable rhythmic context and not always a repetitive harmonic thing going ...
Continue ReadingJean-Paul Bourelly: Boom Bop
by Mark Corroto
Jazz has always been about the fusion the different music. And at one time way back, so was rock, country and classical. Now they become what is called ‘cross-over’ music, usually a watered down sound, that neither genre finds acceptable. Guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly probably doesn’t consider himself a jazz musician, with all the limitations the definition suggests. Born in Chicago of Haitian parents, he received an AACM education before his Brooklyn M-BASE experiences with Cassandra Wilson’s groups and tenure with ...
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