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New podcast episode
In the new episode ofthe Rock’s Backpages podcast, we invite the excellent Miles Marshall Lewis to Zoom in from his native New York City.
Co-hosts Barney, Mark & Jasper ask Miles about his formative musical experiences in the South Bronx, including the impact of his parents’ superhip record collection. The conversation turns to hip hop, and then to the “mashing” of jazz and rap on the first three Tribe Called Quest albums — which leads circuitously to Kendrick Lamar’s jazz-infused 2015 masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly, and then to the biography (Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power & Poetry of Kendrick Lamar) that Miles has just published. Jasper asks the author about Kamasi Washington and other guest stars on Butterfly, after which we swing to the opposite end of the jazz spectrum and discuss Tony Scherman’s 1996 interview with somewhat divisive traditionalist Wynton Marsalis — the week’s new audio offering, from which we hear two clips.
From jazz and hip hop we turn to reggae and to the week’s featured artist Bob Marley. Prompted by the imminent London premiere of Marley musical Get Up, Stand Up!, we hear the voice of the Jamaican superstar as he speaks to Karl Dallas about ‘I Shot the Sheriff’, a mere day after the Wailers blew the roof off London’s Lyceum theatre on 18th July, 1975.
After bidding farewell to Status Quo bassist/cofounder Alan Lancaster and to George “Commander Cody” Frayne IV, the RBP team talk us through the 100+ pieces added to our library over the past two weeks. These include Lillian Roxon writing about L.A. in the aftermath of the 1969 Manson killings (before Manson has been arrested); Ronnie Hawkins in hot water with former charges The Band/Hawks (also 1969), Michael Watts in hot pursuit of Iggy Pop in 1977, Mark Rozzo revisiting “ultimate cult album” Big Star Third in 2006, and —– bringing the episode full circle — our special guest on Baz Luhrmann’s 2016 hip hop drama The Get Down…
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New on Rock’s Backpages
THIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – exclusive audio ofBob Marleytalking to Karl Dallas the day after the Wailers played a legendary show at London’s Lyceum on 18th July, 1975. Hear the interview for free till Friday, then read the Melody Makerpiece that resulted from it – along with Vivien Goldman’s account of dropping in on Bob in Jamaica four years later.
The week’s featured writer (and our next podcast guest) is Miles Marshall Lewis, whose biography of the brilliant Kendrick Lamaris published this week. Miles’ Ebony review of To Pimp a Butterfly is revisited here, as is a 2013 interview with Wynton Marsalis… who just happens to be the week’s new audio interviewee (in a 1996 conversation with Tony Scherman). By way of bidding farewell to Alan LancasterandGeorge Frayne IV, we’re also offering 1976 interviews with Status Quo and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
Subscribers can, of course, access the 50+ new articles added to the RBP library, including:
- Robert Shelton reviewing the Byrds @ Village Gate in 1966
- Ronnie Hawkinsin hot water with former charges The Band in 1969
- John Morthland in New Orleans with the Ohio Players in 1981
- Sandy Robertson meeting “Hollywood’s prince of darkness” Warren Zevonin 1985
- Phranc onbeing an “all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer” in 1991
- New RBP recruit Mark Rozzo lauds “ultimate cult album”Big Star Third/Sister Loversin 1993
- And, from 2015, David Toop revisiting Coltrane’s classic Love Supreme…
We sick and tired of-a your ism-schism game
Dying ‘n’ going to heaven in-a Jesus’ name…
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New audio for RBP subscribers
UPTOWN RULER — Tony Scherman meets divisive jazz icon Wynton Marsalis in 1996.
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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Free for a week in the RBP spotlight
THEBUTTERFLY EFFECT — Kendrick LamarbiographerMiles Marshall Lewis(top left, with Lamar) raves about the California rapper’s sophomore album(Ebony, 2015), then explores the relationship between hip hop and jazz in Lamar’s and others’ music (The Fader, 2017). Plus Miles talks jazz and gospel with Wynton Marsalis(Ebony, 2013)…
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It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Staff, Board of Directors, and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, say goodbye to our beloved orchestra member, saxophonist Joe Temperley.
A former member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Joe was a founding member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. For more than 25 years, he performed and toured with the band, and spent a lifetime tirelessly teaching and inspiring students around the world.
“With Joe, there’s the sound, and the integrity in the sound, the originality of it. When you hear his sound, you know him automatically, because it’s so full of warmth, soul and feeling,” Wynton Marsalis said. “We would always have Joe play at or near the end of pieces because his sound carried the meaning of our music. For someone from another country and culture to exhibit the depth of belief that animated his sound was, and still is, truly miraculous. From the coal mines of Scotland, to clubs and concert halls all over the world, Joe’s journey was epochal, and he did it with integrity, style, and piss and vinegar. We will miss him deeply and his spirit will forever live on in the sound of our orchestra.”
We celebrate the memories of our time with Joe and the privilege of having in our Orchestra the big, full, singular sound of such an accomplished musician and wonderful person.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to The Life Raft Group, Wayne NJ.
https://liferaftgroup.org/donate/
Photograph by Frank StewartforJazz at Lincoln Center.
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