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Oregon: The Art Of The Musical Canvas
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is very rare indeed for the art of the brush on canvas and fingers on musical instruments to inhabit the same time, space and composition. But when it does a lifetime of magical experiences are born and stay with you forever. To do this the artists must make a myriad metaphysical leaps and transmigrations! A ...
Ray Charles, 1930-2004: Part 2 of 4
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Ray Charles The Very Best of Ray Charles Rhino Records 2000 Ray Charles (not Georgia) has been on my mind. On the day the great musician passed away, I penned the short tome to his unique contribution to music, Ray Charles, 1930-2004: ...
Ray Charles 1930-2004: Part 1 of 4
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This is an off-the-cuff homage to an American original, not that unlike the recently passed Ronald Reagan (regardless of what our political inclinations may be). There is no other musician, American or not, who can be compared to Ray Charles. Period. Ray Charles' ...
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam!
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To go back to the very beginning, to go back to a Sephardic ancestry, there is the soul – voluptuous in connotation. It is, at once, the invisible shadow of the body – with a sense of self and person, reaching out to its life in the spirit-world. It is desire, appetite, emotion and passion. So... ...
Vocalistics: Cascades From The First Instrument
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Here’s a conundrum! The human voice – the veritable first instrument of jazz or any genre of music, for that matter – assumes its role as a bashful second fiddle to the brass and woodwinds that practice the art. Yet it just gets curiouser. You soon realize that much about the sounds exclusive to ‘jazz’ are ...
Why Classical Music is Important--The Lamentations of Jeremiah
by C. Michael Bailey
Why is it important in jazz, or any modern music for that matter, to have an awareness of the early Western Musical Traditions? Because it is academically and creatively responsible to know from whence we come in any artistic endeavor, be it musical or otherwise. “Classical" music, particularly of the Western Tradition, is the foundation of ...
Griots On The Underground Railroad - Pharoah Sanders And Wayne Shorter
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The music of story and song has no perceptual beginning – and it will have no end. Not, that is, until the seemingly unending tribe of musical artists give up the ghost. From the first raw cry of the human voice discovered to myriad epiphanies of ingenious vocalistics and instrumentalism, the language of music is a ...
Bill Laswell - The Musician Becomes The Music
by Raul d'Gama Rose
New Age. World Beat. World Music. What have we here? Are these terms that the psychoanalysts may write in a prescription to heal the music industry sociopath? Are they what some of today’s musicians would throw as a sop to the industry? A musical cop out by accidental artists who believe that they are creating something ...
