(CNN) – The South has something to say — or show, rather. Finally, the city at the heart of southern hip-hop has been given what it deserves — the benevolent gaze of André 3000 and Big Boi watching over it in full photorealism. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The mural, painted by an artist who goes by JEKS, […]
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Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights | Daily JSTOR
Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
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How a Newspaper Article Saved Thousands of Black Gospel Records From Obscurity |Atlas Obscura
A professor in Texas collects and digitizes rare recordings from across the country.
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A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian Director | NPR
Nate Chinen, NPR John Coltrane, photographed in his backyard in Queens, New York in 1963. JB/© Jim Marshall Photography LLC.Featured Image [dropcap]There[/dropcap] is never any end,” John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. “There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at.” Coltrane, one of jazz’s […]
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Traditional African-American Gospel Songs Deliver Message of Hope and Freedom | The Epoch Times
EMG Inspired Staff, The Epoch Times A snapshot of mid-century South Philly. Featured Image [dropcap]African[/dropcap]-American spirituals are a valuable part of American history. Born out of an oral tradition that reveals Christian values while describing the hardships of slavery from the period of 1600 to 1870, the music and melodies of these songs are still […]
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For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine
I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and […]
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Herbie Hancock Is Still Breaking Rules | The New York Times
The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.
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Donny Hathaway’s Daughter Lalah Is Finally Ready to Honor Him in Concert | The New York Times
Forty years after the groundbreaking soul singer’s death, his daughter will perform a full show of his music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
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Swan Song | The American Scholar
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto
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Kem and Maze deliver fond and fitting farewell concert for Tom Joyner | The St. Louis American
Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American, The St. Louis American [dropcap]Urban[/dropcap] radio pioneer and syndicated morning show personality Tom Joyner sent shockwaves across the airwaves two years ago when he announced that he would be stepping down from his long-running syndicated morning show. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m putting in my two-year notice,” Joyner said on […]
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