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MUSIC MONDAY: “A Love Supreme” - The Best of Sacred Jazz (LISTEN)
MUSIC MONDAY: “A Love Supreme” – The Best of Sacred Jazz (LISTEN)
by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)
It’s Music Monday! In celebration of Easter and #JazzAppreciationMonth, here is a collection of Sacred Jazz.
When jazz emerged in the first half of the 20th century as music of liberation, entertainment and modernism, it provoked a backlash among cultural and religious-establishment figures.
Many of them…
MUSIC MONDAY: “Ear Food” - A New Jazz Playlist (LISTEN)
MUSIC MONDAY: “Ear Food” – A New Jazz Playlist (LISTEN)
by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)
Happy #JazzAppreciationMonth, good people! For most the word “Jazz” conjures up images of the giants like Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and Louis Armstrong.
Though this collection, “Ear Food: A New Jazz Playlist“ features a new school of Jazz artists re-imagining…
The Shack was a tiny backroom off Washington’s parents’ house in Inglewood and it’s the place where, Mosley says, the band learned to feed off each other and explore music outside the realm of a strict curriculum.
“We would go back there all the time and just work on music, play fast and loud, try new tunes, new chord stuff, and it was really a breeding ground for a lot of formative playing and experimenting with what we thought was the type of expression we wanted to see,” he says. “We didn’t know what we were doing so we were just back there.”
The result is a musical connection that is both learned and natural, one that’s based in theory but also a growing desire to explore beyond what you studied in school.
“You spend 25 years making music with someone, you know what they are up to,” he says.
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Busy reliving a powerfully uplifting night of music 24 hours later. This was an all-timer. Cheers and thanks to Butcher Brown and Kamasi Washington.
