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Melvin Gibbs' free download series enters 10th and final week with a John Medeski feature
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Melvin Gibbs' latest free download highlights Afro-Cuban song and rhythm
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Melvin Gibbs' free music series Phree-dem Downloads enters its ninth and penultimate week with a composition based around the singing and rhythm of the Lukumi of Cuba. “Talkin' to the Queen" features John Medeski, Graham Haynes and Alex Harding performing live with Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology band. This track is built around a traditional song for the African spiritual entities known as Orishas performed by a three person group featuring Alex Rodriguez on lead vocals.This song also includes Felix Sanabria ...
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Melvin Gibbs' free download series stirs a "Bitches Brew" in week six
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The Phree-dem Downloads free music series presented by bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs continues into its' sixth week with the composition “HeruGlyphic." Gibbs features keyboard player Onaje Allan Gumbs on this track from his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique Melvin calls “infrapolation." “HeruGlyphic" also features Alex Harding on bass clarinet and the beatboxing of Napoleon Maddox of the ...
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Phree-dem Download 5: Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology - "No He Didn't" featuring John Medeski
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For the fifth week of bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs' free download series he presents a track from his Liberation Theology project recorded live in concert. This composition begins with traditional Lukumi (Afro-Cuban Yoruba) bata drumming and a chant for the Orisha (African Saint) Shango which then leads into a fiery groove featuring the soloing of John Medeski on organ. Other member of the group include: Alex Rodriguez: lead vocal/ bata drum Michael Rodriguez: background vocal/ bata drum ...
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Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads week 4 features guitarist Jeff Parker
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Melvin Gibbs' free music download series enters third week
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Phree-dem Downloads, Melvin Gibbs' free music series continues into its third week with the composition “Ra's Mirror." This track features multi-instrumentalist Casey Benjamin (Kanye West, Mos Def, Stefon Harris) on three different instruments: flute, keyboards and EWI (electronic wind instrument). Bassist/producer Gibbs showcases Mr Benjamin on a track created for his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project. This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique ...
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