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History of Jazz

James "Plunky" Branch: Afrobeat, Funk e Spiritual Jazz

by Angelo Leonardi
November 6, 2023

Da circa un decennio il jazz statunitense e britannico vede l'emergere di giovani protagonisti che spezzano i confini tra i generi “colti" e popolari, operando una sintesi sfaccettata tra le molte espressioni della black music. Un torrente tumultuoso che viene alimentato dalle spinte politico-identitarie della comunità afroamericana (la rinascita dell'Afrofuturismo, il movimento Black Lives Matter), che infonde nel linguaggio del jazz moderno elementi di Afrobeat, Rhythm & Blues, Funk, Hip-Hop, fino a inglobare alcune espressioni della club culture e della ...

Album Review

Oneness Of Juju: African Rhythms 1970-1982

Read "African Rhythms 1970-1982" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
July 10, 2020

Growing up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, the first creative love of James Branch's life was chemistry. Which seems fitting enough given all the musical compounds he would later contrive. As a performer, Branch started out with woodwind before latching onto sax at Columbia University, New York. Also immersed in left wing politics, he moved to California and was hunted by the FBI for three years while living under an assumed name, freelancing as a musician. Branch's intriguing story ...