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José James: una grande voce per la Black Music
by Angelo Leonardi
La recente pubblicazione per la Blue Note di Yesterday I Had the Blues -The Music of Billie Holiday , torna a collocare José James in una piena cornice jazzistica. È una commemorazione della cantante e un approccio tradizionale che oggi James affronta senza paura d'apparire prigionero del passato. L'altro esempio riguarda l'album For All We Know, ...
Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra e Rahsaan Roland Kirk, visionari in video
by Enrico Bettinello
Tre splendidi film in DVD, accomunati dal fatto di avere come protagonisti tre artisti afroamericani di straordinaria forza visionaria, Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra e Rahsaan Roland Kirk. I primi due sono firmati dal regista Robert Mugge, artista da sempre focalizzato sui temi della musica nera (nella sua lunga carriera ha girato ...
What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
by Nenad Georgievski
What Happened, Miss Simone? Alan Light 320 Pages ISBN: 1101904879 Atria 2016 It was singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron who said that Nina Simone was black way before it was fashionable to be black. A controversial and indisputable music icon and celebrity, her unique blend of jazz, pop and ...
When You Are Who You Are / Free Will (Alt Take 1)
Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 2015
Track listing: When You Are Who You Are; Free Will (Alt Take 1);
Galen Weston: Plugged In
by Karl Ackermann
Moving from his high school listening experiences of groups like ACDC and Kiss, guitarist Galen Weston discovered jazz through the influences of well-established guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Mike Stern. After attending the highly-regarded jazz program at Toronto's Humber College, Weston opted out of music for more than ten years while pursuing other business interests. ...
Charenee Wade: Offering - The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
by James Nadal
As it often happens with many artists so in tune with the times that they are actually ahead of their time, the immense contribution of musical/cultural revolutionary Gil Scott-Heron continues to be revealed and acknowledged. Albeit, there has been a perpetual cult surrounding this enigmatic figure which defied any sort of categorization both in music and ...
Jose James at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Jose James Dazzle Denver, CO April 23, 2014 Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Gil Scott-Heron. Mix them together, bring them into the 21st Century and you end up with something that sounds a lot like Jose James. Wednesday night at Dazzle, 36-year-old James brought his band and updated soul ...
The Dude Abides
by Mark Corroto
To paraphrase Jeffrey Lebowski, aka The Dude (or El Dudarino, if you are not into the brevity thing), “I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Grateful Dead, man." Actually, The Dude said the “Eagles" (and I guess I'm obliged to agree with him), but for me the Dead seem to always get under ...
