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legendarytragedynacho · 3 months
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Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille Wilson at the Pyramids of Giza, 1961
Photo and idea by Bert Stern
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didierleclair · 4 months
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Dizzy !
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newyorkthegoldenage · 11 months
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Dizzy Gillespie, 1948.
Photo: Herman Leonard via Jackson Fine Art
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fuckyeahviagraboys · 28 days
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timmurleyart · 1 year
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Pig pen on the double bass. 🎻🎵🎄
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book-ishgirl · 4 months
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Album Review: Dybbuk Tse!
By: Yoni Mayraz
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Album Details:
Genre: Jazz
Released: June 2, 2023
From The Artist: Yoni Mayraz states that the "Dybbuk, known from Jewish folklore, is a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person. It’s a cursed soul of a dead one that wanders tirelessly for sins committed during their life. The most vulnerable victims are the young and the sinful. Possession can be taken literally or as an analogy to the burden that young people carry generations back, which they have no influence on, and which they have to accept. Dybbuk can only be removed by exorcism. The titular ‘Dybbuk Tse!’ is a command to remove the spirit from the possessed body. The album is a story about possession but also about exorcism through music."
Album Review:
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars [⭐⭐⭐⭐.5]
Favorite Track: As We Entered Jericho
Authors thoughts: Wow, wow, wow! What an album! Mayraz has a truly unique sound and artistic voice that comes through here beautifully. A fusion of jazz, 90's NYC hip-hop, and Middle Eastern music, this album harbors a vibe like no other and a rooted story within. These three genres are blended beautifully together through structure, rhythm, melody and star-striking solos from each member of the band. The solos flow from instrument to instrument perfectly and the group seems to be in that state of "musician communication harmony" together. In particular, I enjoyed the groovy and flowing bass lines which Eli Orr rips out on bass guitar with a nice, rich, but synth-like tone. Somewhat dark yet light at the same time, Mayraz delivers his usual style of production while simultaneously experimenting with tinges of murkiness and gloom, resulting in the aforementioned dark/light contrast. I, personally, could not help but get up and dance to some of the tracks on here. My only real critique here is that the titular track (Track 5: Dybbuk Tse!) falls kind of flat in comparison to the rest of the album and the opening vocal sample on it feels out-of-place. Finally, I think the album art is surreally beautiful and worthy of mentioning here because it is just so cool. Very much worthy of it's high rating, I would recommend this album to anyone interested in or looking to get into fusion/contemporary jazz.
Got suggestions or feedback? Let me know in DMs or Asks!
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valentinobaos · 5 months
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Mi primer disco ya está en mi perfil de SPOTIFY
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higherentity · 7 months
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hezigler · 1 month
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Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing
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"Sing, Sing, Sing"
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legendarytragedynacho · 2 months
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Miles Davis
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didierleclair · 4 months
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Roy Haynes, jazz.
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thatrickmcginnis · 9 days
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BOBBY McFERRIN, TORONTO 1988
Bobby McFerrin was about to have his life changed when I photographed him in the spring of 1988. McFerrin had been developing his unique vocal style for years before he released his first album in 1981, and he had released two more well-reviewed records before Simple Pleasures and its massive hit single was released in 1988. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" would win three Grammy, top the Billboard Top 100 and win gold records in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark. (It would go platinum in Germany.) But its reputation as a one-hit wonder and a novelty record made it stand out uncomfortably in McFerrin's career, and he rarely if ever performs the whole song in concerts any more.
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Bobby McFerrin comes from a musical family - his mother was a singer and teacher and his father an operatic baritone - and he was famous for his vocal skills before the hit that changed his life, bringing a capella and vocalese back into jazz over a decade after it had its heyday in the '50s and early '60s with acts like Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Influenced by Keith Jarrett's improvisations, he has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, the Marsalis brothers and Tony Williams, and he guest conducts symphony orchestras all over the world. In the last few years he has focused on working with vocal ensembles, on record and at a weekly session he holds at a venue in Berkeley, California.
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I still have no idea why Bobby McFerrin was moved to mug constantly during my portrait session with him back in 1988, and with time I have also forgot where this was shot and who I was working for. What I do know was that McFerrin restlessly pulled faces for most of the shoot, and that the memory of being unable to control my subject cast a shadow over this session - so much that I skipped it altogether when I was going through my files for my old blog several years ago. Since then, however, the strangeness of these photos has papered over whatever lingering memory I might have had, and legendary Welsh photographer Chalkie Davies recently told me that McFerrin did the same thing with him. So this is probably the first time these photos have been seen since whoever hired me for this assignment published them, nearly forty years ago.
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fuckyeahviagraboys · 5 days
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@unearthedmirrors
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rafikny · 1 year
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Eric Dolphy 1964. Photo by Hank Visser.
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valentinobaos · 5 months
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Uno de mis primeros temas compuesto en honor a don Héctor Pino Q.D.P maestro de la batería que vivió sus últimos años en Cartagena...
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a-literal-no-name · 6 months
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LOOK AT WHAT FUCKING DROPPED?!?!?!?!?! THIS IS ME SINGING DO YALL UNDERSTAND?!?!? ITS ME ITS YA GIRL NONA SINGING WITH ONE OF HER FAVOURITE MUSICIANS IM NOT OKAY ABOUT THIS OH MY GOD
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