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23 hours agoDJ Shadow: Kraftwerk are a touchstone for every phase of my career'
Missed opportunity to work on Deftones' White Pony due to concerns over image and genre.
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1 month agoThis music video captures the spirit of jazz drumming with musical glyphs and a nod to synesthesia
A visual film explores jazz music by assigning shapes to different drum sounds, creating a synesthetic experience where music transforms into colors and graphics.
SF music
fromMission Local
1 month agoRemembering 'Diamond' Dave Whitaker, 88, S.F.'s common thread
Diamond Dave Whitaker was a pioneering countercultural activist who shaped San Francisco's community organizing, radio, and arts scenes for over five decades while influencing Bob Dylan's early musical development.
Los Angeles
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month agoSammy Davis Jr. at Home: 7 Photos of "Mister Show Business" Off-Duty
Sammy Davis Jr. built a legendary entertainment career as a versatile performer and Rat Pack member, choosing homes designed for entertaining despite considering show business his true home.
Berlin music
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1 month agoMeet the BLCK Madonna: Jazz singer Ana Hoffman redefining reverence and Black womanhood | amNewYork
Ana Hoffman adopted the moniker The BLCK Madonna to reclaim the Italian term's original meaning of reverence toward dignified women, while discovering over 300 historical Black Madonnas in European churches.
Parenting
fromOpen Culture
1 month agoHerbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity
Mistakes should be framed as valuable, creative learning opportunities rather than binary failures, especially when guiding perfectionist children.
East Bay (California)
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1 month agoRevered Cuban pianist Omar Sosa back in Bay Area for week full of gigs
Cuban pianist Omar Sosa returns to the Bay Area as resident artistic director at SFJAZZ Center, presenting diverse projects spanning his three-decade career after arriving in 1995 with minimal resources.
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2 months agoThe lush life of Billy Strayhorn, the gay Black man who was Duke Ellington's 'right arm'
Even if you're just a casual jazz fan, you probably recognize "Take the A Train," Duke Ellington's swinging theme song. Or you've heard the melancholy ballad "Lush Life" sung by Nat King Cole, by Linda Ronstadt during her Great American Songbook era, or by Lady Gaga on the album she recorded with Tony Bennett. Both of those - and many other tunes - were written by a gay man, musician, composer, and arranger Billy Strayhorn.
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2 months agoKelan Phil Cohran & Legacy: African Skies
At the turn of the 1960s, when free jazz was making its initial seismic impact, multi-instrumentalist Phil Cohran-he later added the name Kelan-was living in Chicago and playing trumpet for Sun Ra's Arkestra. He contributed to crucial recordings by the band during his tenure, including We Travel the Space Ways, but Cohran was a restless autodidact who never stuck with any one project for long.
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