Just finished reading "Lumumba" by Robin McKown, it's a great biography of the late Patrice Lumumba. Published in 1969, so it has a "current" outlook (he died in '61), which is a interesting perspective to read from. It is a very good book in my opinion. An honorable man he was, to say the least. He should be in every history textbook. The lengths that were went by the US, Belgium, and the UN, to curtail his country's independence, which he was at the forfront of, were mind-bogglingly atrocious. Kinda gets me worked up thinking about it. And he stood courageously for his people and principles until his last breath at the hands of his captors (spelling?).
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Listening to Ramsey Lewis's "Maiden Voyage" LP. Picked it up from Mr. Suit, a fine record store in my hometown of Lancaster, PA. Great album.
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Got my mpc on...need some spices to sprinkle on this joint I'm taking to the studio tomorrow. Afro-flavor, as the whole LP will be.
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And last but not least, a better world starts with ourselves. We need to be the best we can for ourselves, in order to do the best we can for others. Simple, but easy to overlook.
Chow.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
A Beautiful Day
Recent Rotation:
Fela Kuti - Confusion LP
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Uhuru
S.S.O - Tonight's The Night
Madlib - High Jazz LP (#7 in his 'Medicine Show' series)
Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist LP
Just checked out two books on John Coltrane from the bibliotecha today. "Chasin' The Trane" by J.C Thomas and "Coltrane: the story of a sound" by Ben Ratliff....
A afro-swing permeates the rhythms of my mind even more so then they it already does by default...
Fela Kuti - Confusion LP
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Uhuru
S.S.O - Tonight's The Night
Madlib - High Jazz LP (#7 in his 'Medicine Show' series)
Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist LP
Just checked out two books on John Coltrane from the bibliotecha today. "Chasin' The Trane" by J.C Thomas and "Coltrane: the story of a sound" by Ben Ratliff....
A afro-swing permeates the rhythms of my mind even more so then they it already does by default...
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Other Sunday Jazz directions
John Coltrane - Love at The Village Vanguard Again! lp
Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant lp (Nubian Lady, Jugle Plum)
Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Accent On Africa lp (a great dollar bin find)
Maybe some bossanova...who knows...it might be Sunday Morning Soul directions next...
Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant lp (Nubian Lady, Jugle Plum)
Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Accent On Africa lp (a great dollar bin find)
Maybe some bossanova...who knows...it might be Sunday Morning Soul directions next...
Sunday Morning Jazz Post
Sunday morning makes you feel so lovely (as Outkast once stated on the 'any given sunday' ost).
In a Jazz mood today. First record I threw on was Yusef Lateef's "Hush n Thunder". Great record, Lateef is in his classic moody-funk bag here (yeah I just coined that).
I was actually put on to Mr. Lateef through some records I inheirated from my Grandmother (rest her soul). They must've been sitting in the bottom of this drawer for some time (I never saw her play one and she didn't have a record player any longer). One which I crawled and walked by for years. "The Complete Yusef Lateef". Also from her I got Eddie Harris's "Silver Cycles", which put me up on Eddie as well. Grandma on the cutting edge of jazz.
Sunday morning.
It's pancake time.
Love you Grandma.
In a Jazz mood today. First record I threw on was Yusef Lateef's "Hush n Thunder". Great record, Lateef is in his classic moody-funk bag here (yeah I just coined that).
I was actually put on to Mr. Lateef through some records I inheirated from my Grandmother (rest her soul). They must've been sitting in the bottom of this drawer for some time (I never saw her play one and she didn't have a record player any longer). One which I crawled and walked by for years. "The Complete Yusef Lateef". Also from her I got Eddie Harris's "Silver Cycles", which put me up on Eddie as well. Grandma on the cutting edge of jazz.
Sunday morning.
It's pancake time.
Love you Grandma.
Friday, August 27, 2010
free flow.
First thought: weather report's "nubian sundance" is funky as hell.
"The funk that you smell, that's the melanin" - me on the intro to my lp with my homie Nana Kwame.
Johnny osbourne - one more rub-a-dub 12"
Lil will - lookin for nikki "12 (a classic, ONP got damn, got 5 copies)
"The funk that you smell, that's the melanin" - me on the intro to my lp with my homie Nana Kwame.
Johnny osbourne - one more rub-a-dub 12"
Lil will - lookin for nikki "12 (a classic, ONP got damn, got 5 copies)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Vida, Vida, Live
Man...
doing a lot...
busy bee...
Music been good to me...
Black uhuru - black sounds of freedom lp
Gal Costa - Gal canta caymmi lp (brazilian press)
Barry White - Together Brothers ost.
Blacky Ivory - Baby, won't you change your mind lp
Fuzzy Haskins - A whole nother thang lp
(Listening to herbie an 'nems first mwandishi lp, my copy has a pop on first couple seconds of "wandering spirit song", maybe I should clean it...)
The j.b.'s - the grunt (pts. 1 and 2) 7"
The hypnotic brass ensemble - spottie
Waajeed and monica blaire - jamaica funk
U-roy - chalice in the palace
Some of what I've been listening to a lot as of 8/24/10.
Several 45's to be heard are in a neat pile on the coffee table...
Ahmed abdul malik 7" following up "mwandishi"
Finding textures to layer the lp...
Fin.
doing a lot...
busy bee...
Music been good to me...
Black uhuru - black sounds of freedom lp
Gal Costa - Gal canta caymmi lp (brazilian press)
Barry White - Together Brothers ost.
Blacky Ivory - Baby, won't you change your mind lp
Fuzzy Haskins - A whole nother thang lp
(Listening to herbie an 'nems first mwandishi lp, my copy has a pop on first couple seconds of "wandering spirit song", maybe I should clean it...)
The j.b.'s - the grunt (pts. 1 and 2) 7"
The hypnotic brass ensemble - spottie
Waajeed and monica blaire - jamaica funk
U-roy - chalice in the palace
Some of what I've been listening to a lot as of 8/24/10.
Several 45's to be heard are in a neat pile on the coffee table...
Ahmed abdul malik 7" following up "mwandishi"
Finding textures to layer the lp...
Fin.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Posting from my blackberry
Pretty cool.
Been doing a lot of digging, been keeping busy with a lil production work, headed to brooklyn hip hop festival tomorrow. And my mpc 1000 pads are due to be replaced soon. I need that pressure sensitivity working right. just rambling.
Been doing a lot of digging, been keeping busy with a lil production work, headed to brooklyn hip hop festival tomorrow. And my mpc 1000 pads are due to be replaced soon. I need that pressure sensitivity working right. just rambling.
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