Thoughts on Jazz, John Coltrane, my father and 9/11.
Tag: John Coltrane A Love Supreme
New Video: The Blaxploitation Channeling Visuals for Homeboy Sandman’s “Nonbelievers” Video
Homeboy Sandman’s latest single “Nonbelievers” which pairs the Boy Sand’s ridiculously playful rhyme schemes with a hip-hop golden age-leaning production consisting of a looped, slinky guitar line and a propulsive rhythm section of stuttering drum programming and a rolling and swaying bass line. But just underneath the surface is an equally playful sensuality as the New York emcee talks about being in love with what may be one of the more interesting women in the entire world.
The recently released music video for “Nonbelievers” plays with some of themes and motifs of Pam Grier’s most beloved Blaxploitation films while subtly suggesting that the entire time the New York-based emcee was having an extremely vivid dream — or maybe not.
Throwback: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
Since this site’s inception, it has been an annual tradition that I write something on John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme, an album that is arguably not only one of the most beautiful albums ever written […]
Towards the end of my father’s very short life, our relationship had deteriorated to the point that we really didn’t have much of a relationship beyond the accident of biology. But there were a few […]
Amulet Records will be releasinga new archival compilation by the John Lurie National Orchestra, The Invention of Animals. The compilation assembles seven previously unreleased live and out-of-print studio recordings by the acclaimed musician, actor and visual […]
One September 11th, a few years ago, I had come home from work or running errands and my father was playing John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme on the stereo while cooking in the kitchen, and although our […]
A Q&A with Blair Crimmins and the Hookers’ Blair Crimmins
Jazz is America’s first and greatest cultural and music contribution to the world. After all, there are few genres that have managed to convey the depths of human emotion and experience in the same fashion […]