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Pharoah Sanders remembered by Kamasi Washington

The musician salutes the long career of the fellow saxophonist, the master of spiritual, ‘cosmic’ jazz who was ‘like a third grandfather’ to him

The Guardian - UK

Wakanda Forever celebrates lost cultures

Taking cues from Afrofuturism, the film highlights the legacy of Mesoamerican culture destroyed by colonization

Salon

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' continues the series' quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures

As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” I’m particularly excited about the introduction of Namor and the hidden kingdom of Talokan, which he leads.

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Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky review – Marshall Allen keeps the cosmic flame alive

The 98-year-old Arkestra vet Allen keeps the Ra flame burning with tranquil, semi-free jazz passages featuring kora, piano and his own abrasive sax. Even Chopin gets a look-in

The Guardian - UK

Nick Mason weighs in on his new band, gong-banging and early Pink Floyd: 'We weren't very good!'

Pink Floyd fans were more than a little surprised when the long-defunct band's drummer, Nick Mason, began performing four years ago in Saucerful of Secrets, a group devoted to showcasing the music Pink Floyd made between 1967 and 1972. But not nearly as surprised as Mason, whose debut gig with…

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DJ, producer and UCSD 'Blacktronika' creator King Britt does it all: 'He's had so much impact on so many'

SAN DIEGO — The worlds of DJs, academia, hip-hop, Miles Davis, Dua Lipa, electronic music, Sun Ra, cassette mix tapes and digital technology are all happy equals for King Britt, who in barely four years at the University of California San Diego has become one of its most popular faculty…

Tribune News Service

Our top 12 shows to book now at the EFG London Jazz Festival 2022 from Nubiyan Twist to Melody Gardot

The pick of the shows from the event’s largest ever line-up

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Pharoah Sanders obituary

US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

The Guardian - UK

House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Bangkok Post

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

The Guardian - UK

Pharoah Sanders, legendary jazz musician, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

Los Angeles Times

Pharoah Sanders, giant of spirit-driven jazz, dies at 81

Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.

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Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

The Guardian - UK

Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images were predicted by pop music

The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first

The Guardian - US

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Victor Schonfield obituary

Other lives: Jazz and avant-garde music enthusiast who set up a charity to promote his favourite kind of music

Los Angeles Times

Cypress Hill celebrates 4/20 with a career-spanning documentary. And weed. Lots of weed

LOS ANGELES — Though Estevan Oriol has never been a member, for most of Cypress Hill's 30-plus years as a group the photographer and filmmaker traveled with them. If co-founder B-Real did an onstage hit from their bong Excalibur, Oriol absorbed the cloud of secondhand smoke as his video camera…

Chicago Tribune

Sun Ra Arkestra returns soon in Chicago, a legacy kept alive by a 97-year-old bandmate. ‘His music needs to be heard’

CHICAGO — Patrons of South Side jazz clubs in the 1950s might have noticed something a bit different about pianist Sun Ra’s big band — slowly at first, then all at once. Their sounds became more far-out, the synthy buzz of claviolines and Wurlitzers replacing Ra’s usual uprights. Bit by…

What Hi-Fi?

60 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles

Something old, something new, but all these albums deliver great music alongside excellent production.

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