A BLOG SUPREMEBlack History Meets Black Music: 'Blues People' At 50
In 1963, a jazz-obsessed, college-educated black Beat poet in New York wrote a "theoretical endeavor" linking the sociopolitical and the sonic. A half-century later, Amiri Baraka's book remains the first of its kind — and among the most important — in African-American studies.
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A BLOG SUPREMEThundercat On Making Music Outside The Lines
Session musician Stephen Bruner has played bass in other people's bands for more than a decade. He can play metal, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. And he's been folding all that into his own music, which he puts out under the name Thundercat. Now, with his second album, he's stepping to the front of the stage.
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A BLOG SUPREMEMiguel Zenón And Dafnis Prieto On JazzSet
You're judged by the company you keep, and at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival, we're with geniuses. Saxophonist Miguel Zenón (from Puerto Rico) and drummer Dafnis Prieto (from Cuba) have both resettled in the U.S., and are reworking the music of their islands in studios and on bandstands worldwide.
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A BLOG SUPREMEJosé James On World Cafe
The jazzy, soulful singer challenges himself throughout his latest album, No Beginning, No End.
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