Results for "Jazz is Dead"

Lonnie Liston Smith: Jazz Is Dead 17

by Chris May
May 10, 2023

Having kicked off 2023 with one of the strongest albums in its catalogue--Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison's Jazz Is Dead 16--Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's label continues on a roll. Jazz Is Dead 17 finds the two producers in their funked-up comfort zone and relishing it. Strange but true, Jazz Is Dead ...

Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison: Jazz Is Dead 16

by Chris May
January 12, 2023

There is much to love about Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead label and an equal amount to hate. The production duo's declared mission is “to foreground legends from the past" and “to highlight their contributions" to popular music in general and jazz in particular. Admirable. Spread the love. Trouble is, the results ...

Jazz Is Dead 13: Katalyst

By Greg Paul

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2022

Jazz Is Dead 13

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Avenues; Daybreak; Corridors; Summer Solstice; Juneteenth; Dogon Cypher; Reflections.

Jazz Is Dead 16

By Phil Ranelin

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2023
Track listing: Genesis; Open Eye; Running With The Tribe; Fire In Detroit; Ursa Major; Metropolitan Blues; Black Census.

Jazz Is Dead 14

By Henry Franklin

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2022
Track listing: Karibu; The Griot; People's Revolution; Memories Lost; Feedback; Cafe Negro; African Sun; A Song For Sigrid.

Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 14

by Chris May
September 25, 2022

Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead label is a moveable feast when it comes to consistency. In its fourteen albums date, there have been some great ones, some not so great ones and a couple of duds. With bassist Henry Franklin, however, the label has come up with a blinder, its most satisfying ...

Jazz Is Dead

Jazz is Dead is an instrumental Grateful Dead cover band that interprets classic Dead songs with jazzy influences instrumentally. There have been different line-ups over time with T Lavitz being the only mainstay off all of them.

Three years after the Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia died, the first line-up of Jazz Is Dead released their first album, Blue Light Rain, which is in fact the first lyrical line from the song "Unbroken Chain". This album features "Crazy Fingers", "Scarlet Begonias", "Dark Star", "Red Baron" by Billy Cobham, the Phil Lesh classic "Unbroken Chain", and the Blues for Allah tunes "King Solomon's Marbles" and the epic "Help on The Way / Slipknot! / Franklin's Tower>Spiral Staircase" medley.

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 ...

Jazz Is Dead 7

By João Donato

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2021
Track listing: Nao Negue Seu Coração; Aquarius (Bring Her Back Home To Me); Desejo De Amor; Forever More; Sua Beleza E Beleza; Liaisons; Adrian, Ali & Gregory; Vermelho Quente; Conexão;