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Kanye West

Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965

by Angelo Leonardi
May 30, 2023

Questo lussuoso cofanetto di sei LP in edizione limitata dedicato all'arpista Dorothy Ashby è un importante contributo che colma l'attuale vuoto di registrazioni e rende giustizia a un'artista tanto importante quanto dimenticata. Non troverete il suo nome sulle massime storie ed enciclopedie del jazz, e la sua morte prematura dell'aprile 1986 (aveva 55 anni) fu data ...

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at The Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival

by Manny Hebron
July 9, 2022

Summer is officially here which means the Hollywood Bowl plays host to elite artists from all music genres. The Hollywood Bowl also celebrates its centenary having opened in 1922. The annual festival, formerly the Playboy Jazz Festival, celebrated its 42nd year at the Bowl the weekend of June 25-26, 2022. With Arsenio Hall hosting ...

Gil Scott-Heron-Brian Jackson: Mezzo secolo di una partnership epocale

by Angelo Leonardi
May 2, 2022

A mezzo secolo di distanza dai primi folgoranti album degli anni settanta, la figura di Gil Scott-Heron resta centrale nella cultura afro-americana contemporanea. Molti rapper l'hanno indicato come ispiratore, Makaya McCraven gli ha dedicato nel 2020 We're New Again e i suoi brani sono stati campionati da esponenti della scena hip hop come Kanye West, Drake ...

Kanye West: Yeezus

By Kanye West

Label: Island / Def Jam
Released: 2013
Track listing: On Sight; Black Skinhead; I Am A God; New Slaves; Hold My Liquor; I'm In It; Blood on the Leaves; "Guilt Trip; Send It Up; Bound 2.

Kanye West: Yeezus

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
August 4, 2013

Ben Jonson said of his dead child, my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. We too easily take what the poets write as figures of speech, as pretty images, as strings of bons mots. Sometimes perhaps they speak the truth. --Margaret Drabble, The Millstone (1965).Every time I write these ...

Copal: Electro-Acoustic Folktronic Belly Dancers

October 11, 2010

Tying into the ancient past of austere nobility, elegant damsels, extremes of affluent wealth and bitter poverty, lays Copal. Their music mirrors our fast-paced modern world, with electronics and stylish innovations all while keeping focus on their old-world traditions. It inspires visions of mystery pools and deep forested paths—it's a journey from dusk to dawn through ...

In Defense of Bad Singing

December 16, 2008

After Kanye West's performance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, the chattering classes are wringing their hands today over the gee-whiz revelation that, maybe underneath all that gratuitous Auto-Tune, West's voice might be a bit, as they say, “pitchy." We can go back and forth about the relative disaster-or-not qualities of his two-song set, but ...