What Is Jazz?
Is Merriam-Webster’s definition of jazz, “American music developed especially from ragtime and blues,” valid in South Africa or Brazil? Is the first sentence of the … Read More “What Is Jazz?”
Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs is a bass guitarist, composer, and producer whose 40-year career has featured work with Defunkt, Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, Eye and I, Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, Rollins Band, Eddie Palmieri, Femi Kuti, and Arto Lindsay, among many others. He is currently one-third of the trio Harriet Tubman with guitarist Brandon Ross and drummer J.T. Lewis. In the 1980s, he was an original member of the Black Rock Coalition.
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The Changing Nature of Protest in Jazz
What we went to offer is a positive notion, a positive offering, a positive spirit. Some of it of course expressed both joy and pain. … Read More “The Changing Nature of Protest in Jazz”