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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2023

There was soothing minimalism and bowel-quaking low end as Neil Gaiman got some wonderfully quizzical accompaniments and Manchester’s answer to Sun Ra freaked out

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Isaiah Collier: Parallel Universe review – an inspired homage to the giants of jazz and soul

Recorded in single-take live performances, the Chicago multi-instrumentalist deftly throws funk, gospel, soul and his own fine voice into the mix

The Guardian - UK

‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget

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Mike Reed plays on — through Chicago music scene’s highs and lows

Through his work as Pitchfork Music Festival’s co-founder, owner of Constellation and the Hungry Brain, and an esteemed free jazz bandleader, Reed has helped shape Chicago’s music scene.

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Davis obituary

US jazz bassist who worked with Van Morrison and Sarah Vaughan and later became a professor of bass at Wisconsin University

The Guardian - UK

The incredible story of the lost city of Atlantis that inspired Jason Momoa’s Aquaman

The myth of the underwater city has captured imaginations for over two thousand years

Evening Standard

Move over guitar rock – Ezra Collective’s propulsive jazz is the true sound of modern Britain

Their Mercury Prize win has finally punted the ‘token jazz album’ era of the Mercury Prize into the past, says John Lewis

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Labor Day weekend kicks off jazz season in Chicago — here are some highlights

“It’s a wide variety of different genres, from New Age to Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and a little bit of avant-garde,” said John Foster, the Jazz Institute’s managing director of programs and education initiatives, about this weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chico Freeman to honor his famous father, ‘my hero’ Von Freeman, at Chicago Jazz Festival

Even while absorbing his dad’s unique sound, tenor saxophonist found his own powerful voice early on.

Chicago Sun-Times

AI can help shape society for the better – but humans and machines must work together

Collaboration is key to creating culturally and ethically positive systems, says professor of digital media, computing and artificial intelligence D Fox Harrell

The Guardian - UK

Hip-hop at 50: 7 essential listens to celebrate rap's widespread influence

On the evening of Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc attended a block party in the South Bronx. Armed with two record players and a mixer, he created an extended percussive break while others rhymed over the beats. Hip-hop was born.

The Conversation

Everything you wanted to know about Rock In Opposition but were too afraid to ask

Check out our RIO playlist and discover some gems from this oft-ignored sub-genre of prog

Louder

Through space and rhyme: How hip-hop uses Afrofuturism to take listeners on journeys of empowerment

It is perhaps only natural, as hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, that people look to the genre’s future. But for some rappers, the future has always been part of the story.

The Conversation

From Joy Ride to Carly Rae Jepsen: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A business deal goes wildly awry in a road trip comedy from a Crazy Rich Asians writer, while the Canadian pop star shows off a more playful side on her new album

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Switch on a classic synthesizer with Moog Music’s Model D web experience

Pentagram has designed a website for synth specialist Moog, an interactive delight that celebrates 70 years of its iconic Model D

Chicago Sun-Times

At 86, Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal continues to gloriously defy music genres

Bandmate Jovino Santos Neto claims Pascoal would doubtless be a Guinness World Records holder if his oeuvre could be accurately quantified, as he is, even at 86, constantly churning out new works.

The Guardian - US

From the Deep: an underwater kingdom for enslaved people who died in the Atlantic

The pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious new exhibition from Ayana V Jackson

Los Angeles Times

With a Black Californian headed to the moon, many see cosmic justice for a whole race

LOS ANGELES -- The heavens give off a bittersweet glow for Black Americans.

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Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem for Jazz review – a cosmic brew

Capturing the full power of a live 2019 performance, the Chicago musician channels a 1959 film and Sun Ra with her potent jazz-classical suite

Los Angeles Times

With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth in MoMA exhibits

NEW YORK — In 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, the wounds of the 1815 conflict, the last of the War of 1812, were still fresh, and…

Chicago Sun-Times

Things do in Chicago March 16-22: The Mix

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Shamrock Shenanigans and “Tuk Tuks on Devon” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Los Angeles Times

The timeless innovations of De La Soul, now (finally) available for the streaming generation

Before De La Soul, says Hank Shocklee, "'beautiful' and 'rap' weren't two words that went together."

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Biden touts jobs and climate wins in State of Union address

President hails post-lockdown economy reboot. Plus, former Twitter execs to testify over Hunter Biden laptop story

The Guardian - US

‘New York was a big, bad city’: the hazy, radical photography of Ming Smith

The artist reflects on her storied career amid the launch of a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

The Guardian - UK

‘Those stoner days were hugely liberating’: Kiwi musicians reflect on a counterculture like no other

Cut off from the ‘swinging’ innovations of 60s London, a generation of New Zealand musicians forged an underground scene that propelled the nation’s modern identity

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