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Idlewild gets jazzy during homecoming event review
THE FIRST ACT: Jazz musician Rick Hicks, of Muskegon, starts off the Idlewild Homecoming on Saturday. The episode featured five acts and brought out at least 500 people. IDLEWILD — John Meeks wanted to create an event which brought all the advantages of Idlewild together.After several years of preparation and hard work, Saturday’s Idlewild Homecoming […]
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Top 10 The Best Jazz Albums Of 2016
Traditional jazz players continued to quietly do awesome work, too, of course. One of the best shows I saw this year was 82-year-old tenor saxophonist Houston Person at the Village Vanguard, backed by Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Ben Street, and legendary drummer Billy Hart. Person played like he should have been wearing a […]
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Jay Daniel, ‘Broken Knowz’
Detroit is famous as an industrial city whose machines have helped remake the world. But among its most beloved exports has been the rhythm of different machines: in music that gets played at parties and in clubs, made predominantly by people of color, and consumed and imitated around the world. Motown! Detroit techno! J Dilla! […]
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Alessia Cara – “Super Rich Kids”
Alessia Cara has been known to cover Frank Ocean songs a lot. She’s already covered “Ivy” from Blonde this year, but she really has an affinity for what she calls “classic” Frank Ocean: Last month she covered “Swim Good” from Nostalgia, Ultra, and today she did Channel Orange’s “Super Rich Kids” on Annie Mac’s BBC […]
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La Llorona – Mariachi Flor De Toloache
Mariachi Flor de Toloache is a diverse, bilingual, all-woman band that fuses traditional mariachi music with jazz, blues and other forms of Latin American music. (For the non-Spanish-speaking crowd, flor de toloache means “toloache flower,” a Mexican medicinal plant often associated with magic and brujeria, or healing. It’s known to have high toxicity levels, but […]
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Music Recommendation: Dungen – Achmed flyger
Adventurous Swedish psych-rockers Dungen are returning in a few weeks with Häxan, their first fully instrumental album. We’ve already heard skittering new track “Jakten genom skogen,” and now they’ve shared a jazzy pastoral odyssey entitled “Achmed flyger,” which comes along with a suitably retro-trippy music video featuring lots of warped shots of the natural world. […]