It’s never a good sign when an interview starts with, “Fuck him.” But when I asked Les McCann to talk about Eugene McDaniels that’s just what I got. Thankfully, a half second later he admitted: “Naaaw… I love him dearly.” What’s not to love dearly about Gene McDaniels? He’s from [...]
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Carlos Nino is a man of two very different natures. On one hand, he is very much the kind of guy who talks about vibrations, cooperatives, and describes music that touches him as magical. But whereas many of the idealists he shares a vocabulary with fall short when it comes to execution, there [...]
Ilhan Ersahin is the man at the center of an ever-growing circle of musicians centered around his Nublu nightclub in New York. Brazilian Girls, Kudu, Love Trio, and others have all spent time incubating in front of audiences at Nublu. Our Theory is Ilhan’s latest creative endeavour.
Born of a chance meeting with French [...]
“He’s the most sophisticated African musician, ever,” states producer Stewart Levine bluntly, when asked about Hugh Masekela. Granted he’s probably a little biased (he has been Masekela’s best friend for over 40 years), but Levine does make a solid point. At 17, Hugh Masekela received a trumpet from Louis Armstrong. At 20, [...]
It was the fall of 1968, and Hugh Masekela’s “Grazing in the Grass” was a smash hit. His label wanted a cheery follow-up album, but he and his producer Stewart Levine were in a very different place now. “We were both angry, and we were not too thrilled with our new-found fame and [...]
A Dust Brother (Cheeba), a peripheral Beastie Boy (Money Mark), a Headhunter (Mike Clark), and a slew of other musicians join producer Aja West’s tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. Throw in the fact that the album is mastered by Brian “Big Bass” Gardner, better known for his work with gangsta rap acts like N.W.A., [...]
Okay, so maybe he’s a little impulsive. “It took me two hours to decide to move here,” Osunlade says of the period he spent mulling over a move to the Greek island of Santorini. “A Greek friend and myself took 10 days and we just did many of the islands and he was [...]
The story of Lonnie Smith sounds familiar enough: A boy grows up dirt poor in a western New York steel-town, longing to make it big. All he needs is a break. Thousands of kids go through it, only a handful live out their dreams. It takes just the right convergence of [...]
The Kings of Jazz is a study in jazz musicology. Jazzanova picks out some of their favorite jazz-infused contemporary material for one disc and Gilles Peterson time travels from the ‘50s to the ‘80s chronicling some of his classic jazz favorites for the other. Jazzanova essentially shows us where jazz is while Gilles [...]
Jazzanova is almost the hipsters default remix of choice. The most interesting part of that is that the collective is made up of six different producers and therefore doesn’t necessarily have a consistent style when it comes to remixing other people’s work. Sometimes it’s a heavy obvious contribution, other times a Jazzanova [...]
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