By Rob Shepherd, PostGenre For over fifty years, Dave Liebman has been at the forefront of musical creativity. Whether his time as a sideman with artists including Miles Davis and Elvin Jones or his own works like Lookout Farm (ECM, 1973) or The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (CMP, 1986) or his various recordings … Read More
By Rob Shepherd, PostGenre Memorial day weekend 1921 started just like any other day in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of the wealthiest communities in America, this segment of the city was such an economic powerhouse it would be dubbed “Black Wall Street.” By the end of the weekend, the prosperous region would … Read More
By John Chacona, PostGenre Let’s start with “Take Five,” a tune most serious jazz fans might be grateful never to hear again. Read more here.
By Rob Shepherd, PostGenre Alice Coltrane’s blurring of historically Black American music, classical Indian concepts, atonal orchestration, and (sometimes) synthesizer has significantly guided the following generations, often subtly, including in jazz, New Age, and experimental electronic music. And yet, in most circles, she remains criminally underrated. Read more here.
By Colin Stanhope, PostGenre As the world seems to descend into increasingly challenging times every day, society needs music more than ever to respond to the events that unfold. Read this full review here.
By Colin Stanhope, PostGenre The Brecker Brothers, throughout their twenty-year career, always embodied an interesting duality in their music. On the one hand, every member was accomplished in pop, funk, and R&B, performing on seminal albums with everyone from Frank Zappa to Parliament-Funkadelic. Their recordings are infused with a unique tightness of the horns and … Read More
By Rob Shepherd, PostGenre It can be incredibly difficult to be creative at the culinary arts. Insufficient attention to detail or excessive or inordinate amounts of particular ingredients potentially create a bland or inedible product. Masterful creation requires a background on how to best use materials and a desire to mix them in the best … Read More
