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Adrian Younge

Katalyst: Jazz Is Dead 13

by Chris May
July 19, 2022

Drab graphic design aside, the semiology of the Jazz Is Dead label promises good things. The name itself suggests music that is the opposite of dead--something vibrant, inventive, of its time--while the label's co-founders, producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, are active in the struggle for universal social justice. On top of that, Muhammad was ...

African Cookbook, A Vocal Tangent, A Dizzy Atmosphere

by David Brown
May 31, 2022

This week, South African jazz artists to African sounds in jazz, a vocal tangent, and finally, a Dizzy atmosphere. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Epistrophy (Theme)" from Live At The It Club (Complete) (Columbia) 00:15 Somi “House of the Rising Sun" from Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (Salon Africana) 01:50 Nduduzo Makhathini “Amathongo" from In ...

Jazz Is Dead 8: Brian Jackson

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2021
Track listing: Under the Bridge; Mars Walk; Young Muhammad; Nancy Wilson; Baba Ibeji; Duality; Bain De Minuit; Ethiopian Sunshower.

Brian Jackson: Jazz Is Dead 8: Brian Jackson

by Karl Ackermann
July 15, 2021

The Jazz is Dead series of recordings is neither trying to bury or resurrect the genre. It largely exists on the periphery where “jazz" is either a prefix or suffix. The project, launched by musician-producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad in 2020, is prolific and elastic in its choice of artists and styles. Younge and ...

Gary Bartz NTU Troop: Live In Bremen

by Chris May
May 20, 2021

In the early 1970s there was fusion and there was NTU Troop. After paying his dues in bands led by Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Art Blakey, Bartz made a splash in 1969 with his sophomore album, Another Earth (Milestone), a genius blend of spiritual jazz, space jazz and down and dirty blues. On it, Bartz ...

Gary Bartz At 80: On Jazz Is Dead, Miles Davis And Why Improvisation Is A Dirty Word

by Rob Garratt
May 5, 2021

It's hard to talk to Gary Bartz about music. Not because he's a difficult or reluctant interviewee—quite the opposite. In fact, the 80-year-old saxophonist is refreshingly unguarded and garrulous when looking back over his formidable six-decade musical career. It's just finding the right words that's the tricky part. Like many musicians, jazz isn't one ...

Brian Jackson: Winter In America Pt. 2

by Chris May
February 9, 2021

As Gil Scott-Heron's songwriting and performing partner during the 1970s, keyboardist, composer and arranger Brian Jackson was co-author of some of the most galvanising liberation music of the era. Inhabiting the intersection of jazz, soul and spoken word, Jackson and Scott-Heron, who met while they were both students at Lincoln University, were a team from Pieces ...

Jazz Is Dead 4: Azymuth

By Azymuth

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ao Redor Do Samba; Sumaré; Cat Jump; Fall Afternoon; Friendship Samba; Apocalíptico; Pulando Corda; Quiet Storm.

Jazz is Dead 3: Marcos Valle

By Marcos Valle

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2020
Track listing: Queira Bem; Isso É Que Eu Sei; Oi; Viajando Por Aí; Gotta Love Again; Não Saia Da Praça; Our Train; A Gente Volta Amanhã.