Black music in white spaces. . [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Away from home, I walk into unfamiliar spaces with my shoulders hunched and tight. Instinctively, I scan my surroundings, stretching every sense around the corners of the room until it feels safe. What the eye see? What the ears hear? What the nose smell? It’s Sunday afternoon […]
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Remembering Curtis Mayfield Today on the 20th Anniversary of His Passing (December 26, 1999) | Albumism
Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Curtis Mayfield’s musical legacy and revisit audio & video highlights from his career below! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Biography: Perhaps because he didn’t cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown’s stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield’s talents and contributions have yet to be […]
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Roberta Flack to Make Rare Appearance At GRAMMY Awards | American Songwriter
In a press release earlier this week, the Recording Academy® announced its 2020 Special Merit Awards recipients. The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees include Roberta Flack. The legendary musician and singer will make a rare public appearance to attend the GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at Los Angeles’ STAPLES Center. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I am […]
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What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks | The New Yorker
On October 31, 1965, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] At twelve, he marched in parades for the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he was given his first cornet. But he had publicly boycotted the city since its banning of integrated bands, […]
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Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74 | The New York Times
A multiple Grammy Award winner, she was a towering figure on the operatic, concert and recital stages.
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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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Mixed Up: ‘If white people love hip hop, why the hell can’t we love rock music?’ | Metro.co.uk
Natalie Morris, Metro.co.uk [dropcap]S[/dropcap] ophie K is a DJ and breakfast show presenter at Kerrang! Radio with Ugandan, British and Polish heritage. She says progressing as a woman of colour in the rock world hasn’t been easy. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] ‘My mother was from Uganda and was spotted by somebody from the fashion industry who brought […]
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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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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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