|
|
Jazz began to «swing» as musicians began to adopt swing eighths, the string bass, high hat cymbals, and a looser, more rhythmic feeling . . . ⇒
This change occurred gradually starting in the twenties notably with Louis Armstrong, and continued on into the 40’s. A lot of the music that […]
«The Sound of Jazz» is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television. The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York […]
≈
Deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, Diana Krall‘s repertoire is not much different than what Ella or Sarah were singing a generation ago. This may sound like the safe choice, but it isn’t.
A thousand vocalists have ended up on the boulevard of broken dreams by trying […]
… Melody Gardot – Jane Monheit – Hope Waits – Kate Paradise – Tierney Sutton – Karrin Allyson – Patricia Barber – Madeleine Peyroux – Joni Mitchell …
I love a piano, I love a piano. I love to hear somebody play upon a piano, a grand piano. It simply […]
◊ Swing to Bop ↓ [1987]
An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Ira Gitler
→
This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of […]
¤ Geri Allen (1957-2017) was the quintessence of a present-day mainstream jazz pianist. Well-versed in a variety of modern jazz styles from bop to free, Allen steers a middle course in her own music, speaking in a cultivated and moderately distinctive voice, respectful of, but not overly impressed with, the […]
Those who wrote and played it cultivated an attitude, a style and a language that came to epitomise the meaning of a word that is now so liberally used.
“Cool” Jazz refers to modern jazz that tends to be softer and easier to follow–Mark Gridley
“Cool” also has affiliation with “West Coast” […]
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights […]
DJ Krush (Hideaki Ishii) was born in 1962 in Tokyo. At an early age, Ishii dropped out of school, and joined a local gang, and a few years later, Yakuza. After watching the film ‘Wild Style’ in the early ’80s, he was inspired, bought himself a set of turntables, and […]
¤ ‘All That Jazz, From New Orleans to New York’
←An anthology of Jazz music which prior to the popular swing era of the 1930s and ’40s is often referred to as «early jazz.» Through its origins before the turn of the 20th century, jazz had evolved from a regional […]
An outgrowth, both musically and ideologically, of the San Francisco-based avant-garde industrial jazz collective the Beatnigs, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy formed in 1990. Comprised of former Beatnigs Michael Franti and Rono Tse, the duo quickly established themselves among rap’s foremost proponents of multiculturalism and liberalism; pointedly attacking hip-hop tenets like homophobia, misogyny, […]
Neneh Mariann Cherry (born Neneh Mariann Karlsson; 10 March 1964) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster. Blending hip hop with other influences, Cherry experienced mainstream success with several of her recordings. Cherry was born in Stockholm to a Sierra Leonean father, drummer Amahdu Jah, and a Swedish mother, painter and textile artist Monica Karlsson, later known as Moki […]
Arrested Development is an American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and his ex-best friend Headliner (DJ) as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.
Asked recently about the state of hip-hop during the last two decades, AD front man Speech, commented “there is little to no balance; the flood of rappers turned corporate moguls is a […]
∞ COMMON: ‘The Light’ ↓ [ft. Erykah Badu]
There are times when you’ll need someone… I will be by your side There is a light, that shines… special for you, special for me… Yeah.. Doo-doo-doo, mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm.. Doo-doo-d-doo, diggy-doo YO.. I never knew a luh, luh-luh, a love like this Gotta be somethin’ […]
The Roots is an American Grammy Award winning hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq «Black Thought» Trotter and Ahmir «Questlove» Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
They are known for a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which includes live instrumentals. Malik B., Leonard «Hub» Hubbard, and […]
An American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and his S1W group, DJ Lord (DJ who replaced Terminator X in 1999), and Music Director Khari Wynn.
Public Enemy rewrote the rules of hip-hop, becoming the most influential and controversial rap group of the late ’80s and, for many, the definitive rap group of all time. Building from Run-D.M.C.’s […]
The gift of the gab, they have: BLACKALICIOUS, an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel. They are noted for Gift of Gab’s often «tongue-twisting», multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel’s «classic» beats.
•→http://genius.com=gift+of+gab⇐ / •→http://genius.com=blackalicious⇐
◊ ‘A to G’ […]
An American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York.The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres.
The members are Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, […]
A clip from Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)a documentary about freestyling – the improvised, on-the-spot rhymes that demonstrate the skills of hip-hop MCs.
♦ Mos Def ↓ freestyling
♦ ‘Mathematics’ ↓
∇ ‘Tell the truth’ ⇓
♦ ‘Six days’ (remix) + DJ Shadow […]
¤ Novelist/essayist Darius James, in his book «That’s Blaxploitation!» (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995) recalled the impact of the Poets at their birth.
«In 1970 the Last Poets released their first album and dropped a bomb on black Amerikkka’s turntables. Muthafuckas ran f’cover. Nobody was ready. Had em scared o’ revolution. Scared o’ the whyte man’s god complex. […]
|
|
