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Just Don't Fall Out the Sky
On Ye's new album and how far you've followed him
Mar 1
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February 2024
Due North
Field notes from this week in listening and paying attention
Feb 9
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Andrew Hill Breaks
1964 Interview with jazz pianist Andrew Hill
Feb 2
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January 2024
Billy Strayhorn, 1967
I’m sharing an interview Billy Strayhorn did for Downbeat’s 1967 composers issue. It’s about working, studying, thinking up the dreams as they are…
Jan 19
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The Bodygaurd 2
Some thoughts on music and tragedy in the film, The Bodyguard, which I just watched for the first time
Jan 15
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Amiri Baraka, gone ten years today yet still here
A transcription of a speech he gave on choices
Jan 10
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The Gospel According to Jimmy Baldwin
Meditations on James Baldwin's centennial year
Jan 4
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December 2023
Baraka on Black Writers writing on Black music
Forty years later what has changed?
Dec 27, 2023
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November 2023
Flute Out
The poetics of André 3000's New Blue Sun
Nov 24, 2023
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For Bisan Owda, a Living Avenging Angel in Gaza
There is a downcast grandeur to Bisan Owda, an indisputable glow, so that when she chants, “Hi, this is Bisan, I’m still alive, these are the updates…
Nov 5, 2023
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October 2023
Love's in Need of Love Today
Thoughts on a Stevie Wonder song about love; thoughts on how our culture becomes genocidal in love's absence
Oct 20, 2023
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Baraka House, After Hours
I'm working with some Baraka archives and wrote this about one in particular. It feels relevant this week especially in relation to why we make certain…
Oct 19, 2023
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