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Endless Enigma: The Aesthetic Phenomenon
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is magic and mystery in the art of making music. The glorious enigma of sounds that arrive at the deepest recesses of the artist's heart to quicken the blood! These notes and those notes pitched -- seemingly from mouthfuls of air, when the artist lets loose his heart-song. The interminable hum of a random melody ...
From Be-Bop To Hip-Hop - The Cry Of Freedom
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In 1986, I was invited to Bombay, India, to cover the Indian jazz festival--Jazz Yatra--literally a “jazz pilgrimage." Restless in a city that had more to offer than I had bargained for and dazzled by the constellation of musicians who had gathered to celebrate the music of freedom I used to wake up early, then make ...
Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Solo Dance He wakes and stretches his body He's in a hot sweat Oh Lord! I see her and she's in the recent past There she is. She is a-coming in a trance dance Loosening up in every inch of supple muscle -- every joint She ...
Atonal Lament For Charles Mingus
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The bass moans softly Two cellos start to cry Softly; then four violins Enter in unison, screaming A dervish chorus of wails Alive, but in sotto voce Trombones bleat... Jimmy's, Willy's... And groan. With a shrill ...
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 ...
Kamala: Indian Songbook
by Raul d'Gama Rose
When western civilization decided to cease all contact with the eastern cultures, we heard very little or nothing of its high art—specifically the music that was complex, advanced and exquisite in every aspect. But the various musical landscapes of Africa, Central Asia, the subcontinent and the Far East were never completely blotted out by the rising ...
Phil Stockli Quintet: Third Eye
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The title of this disc may be slightly misleading. If its creator, saxophonist Phil Stockli, is to be taken at his word, you should be transported on an astral expedition, the kind of which Pharoah Sanders and Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith regularly course. Or you may expect to experience a sense a moving inner spirit. This ...
Adam Rudolph and Go: Organic Orchestra Featuring Yusef Lateef: In The Garden
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Slip this disc into your player and be prepared to be transported into the skin of the vibrant drum and the unfettered melody of water and wind singing in primeval harmony with the earth. And let us not forget the Babel of voices—man, first reveling in the glory of the earth’s perfect design, but soon lamenting ...
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 ...
