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Melvin Gibbs' free download series stirs a "Bitches Brew" in week six
The Phree-dem Downloads free music series presented by bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs continues into its' sixth week with the composition “HeruGlyphic." Gibbs features keyboard player Onaje Allan Gumbs on this track from his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is ...
Phree-dem Download 5: Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology - "No He Didn't" featuring John Medeski
For the fifth week of bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs' free download series he presents a track from his Liberation Theology project recorded live in concert. This composition begins with traditional Lukumi (Afro-Cuban Yoruba) bata drumming and a chant for the Orisha (African Saint) Shango which then leads into a fiery groove featuring the soloing of John Medeski ...
Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads week 4 features guitarist Jeff Parker
The Phree-dem Downloads free music series enters week with the composition “Hari Bibi." This song features Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Chicago Underground Duo) on guitar and Francisco Mora Catlett (Innerzone Orchestra, Sun Ra) on drums and percussion. Bassist Melvin Gibbs produced this track for the “JFM Trio" project, which bases its' music around the Voodoo-derived rhythms of ...
Melvin Gibbs' free music download series enters third week
Phree-dem Downloads, Melvin Gibbs' free music series continues into its third week with the composition “Ra's Mirror." This track features multi-instrumentalist Casey Benjamin (Kanye West, Mos Def, Stefon Harris) on three different instruments: flute, keyboards and EWI (electronic wind instrument). Bassist/producer Gibbs showcases Mr Benjamin on a track created for his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" ...
Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads Week 2 features Pete Cosey and John Medeski
The Phree-dem Downloads free music series continues into its' second week with the composition “Pete's Mojo." Bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs features Miles Davis (Get Up With It, Dark Magus, Agartha) alumni Pete Cosey on guitar and John Medeski on organ and electric piano on this track from his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which ...
Melvin Gibbs announces weekly Free Music Download series
Bassist/Producer Melvin Gibbs announces Phree-dem Downloads, his weekly free music series. Every Monday for the next 10 weeks Melvin will release a recording from his pool of projects which include collaborators such as keyboardist John Medeski, guitarist Jeff Parker, trumpeter Graham Haynes, singer Emilio Barreto, keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Pete Cosey and others. Rhythmic and electric, ...
Bohemian Philanthropy: Songs from the East Village
Bohemian Philanthropy: Songs from the East Village Taps Deep Roots, Bolsters Unique Public School Most public schools facing the current funding crunch mount desperate donation drives or bake sales. But at the arts-based East Village Community School in the heart of one of New York's historically bohemian and global neighborhoods, parents, students, and school staff opted ...
Ancients Speak
By Melvin Gibbs
Label: LiveWired Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ancients Speak; Sometimes; Canto Por Odudua; Represent Do Rio; Mojuba; Sun Of Shango; Eu Cant En Yoruba; Macumba; Summer Breeze; Os Aguas/The Waters.
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity: Ancients Speak
by Chris M. Slawecki
Bassist/composer/producer Melvin Gibbs is best-known among jazz fans for his run with the Ronald Shannon Jackson Decoding Society and among rock fans as bassist for what most devotees consider the best version of The Henry Rollins Band. Now leading his own band, Gibbs explores “the Black Atlantic continuum" that runs from Harlem and NYC in North ...
Melvin Gibbs Elevated Entity: Ancients Speak
by Glenn Astarita
Bassist Melvin Gibbs is a multi-talented and pivotal figure on New York City's downtown scene. On Ancients Speak, co-produced by renegade guitarist and experimental composer Arto Lindsay, Gibbs mixes a potpourri of African vocals, hip hop, Latin grooves, rap, and tribal chants, along with divergent stylizations that transform into a distinct entity. Ancients Speak ...
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