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If You Can Hear Me
On James Blake's recent song for his father and how I deeply I relate to it
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Abide With Me
Some writings on what I'm calling the Black Backstage, that will become a series and solo exhibition in the near future.
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August 2023
Who You Think I Am?
On MF DOOM's one question manifesto about defying so many categories all you can be is the villain
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Amiri Baraka on Writing about Jazz, Etcetera
What strikes most about this interview from 1991 is Baraka’s ability to defend people who he might have been told were his enemies or foils. He was…
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July 2023
June 2023
You are always on my mind
Some evil heroes I think about all the time, some things I've been thinking about in recent days
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Radial Arpeggio: Some thoughts on how we sing the unspeakable
There’s no cruelty in living life as an arpeggio, except that the ability to stretch notes that far and omnidirectional can turn you into an echo of…
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March 2023
Songs of Black Spring
A look at black music's favorite season (with images, playlist fixed)
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February 2023
Black Swans
On Nina Simone's elegant belligerence
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Monk's Daughter Boo Boo Singing
I’m in a Monk mood, meticulously. Both his son and daughter became musicians, his son even served as the drummer in his father’s band during his final…
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January 2023
Two Men Down
Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker in church after-hours
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Parable of the Rapper's Daughter
The disturbing flippancy of North West's impersonations of Ye
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