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âShuttling back and forth between, on the one hand, critical description and analysis and, on the other, a fanâs sheer pleasure, Aldon Nielsenâs nail-hard, rhapsodic tribute
The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka fills a crucial gap in the literature, analyzing the various album and digital recordings Baraka made in the settings of half a century of black music, from bebop to hip hop. Itâs always hard to write about music, but in this book Nielsenâs affective sensibilities as a fan complement the critical rigor.â (
Tyrone Williams, Professor of English, Xavier University, USA, and author of
Adventure of Pi (2011))
Milford Graves, singular drummer and polymath, dies at 79
by Giovanni Russonello
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- By the time Milford Graves took up the jazz drum kit, in his early 20s, he had spent years playing timbales in Afro-Latin groups. But on the kit he was confronted with the new challenge of using foot pedals as well as his hands. Rather than learn the standard jazz technique, he drew from what he already knew.
In the Latin ensembles, wed be doing dance movements while we were playing, he remembered in a 2018 profile in The New York Times. So I said: Thats all Ill do. Im going to start dancing down below. I started dancing on the high-hat.