Words & Music With Phil Galdston and Jonathan Taplin On May 6
NYU Steinhardt s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions in association with the Americana Music Association Foundation presents Words & Music with Phil Galdston on Thursday, May 6 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. His guest is music business professional, motion picture producer, cultural critic, intellectual property advocate, and author Jonathan Taplin. The event is free to the public. Click here to register for the event.
Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave of the past half-century. He began his career in the 1960s as tour manager for Bob Dylan and, subsequently, filled the same role for The Band. He was Production Manager for George Harrison’s
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Singer Records Live Album Celebrating 100 Years of Black American Women in Music
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It’s been 100 years since singer Mamie Smith became the first Black American woman to debut an album recording. In celebration of the centennial of Black American women in music, a group of musicians came together to produce a live album highlighting the history that’s been made over the last century.
Singer Kanika Moore of synthwave outfit Doom Flamingo and powerhouse soul band Motown Throwdown took to the Charleston Music Hall to record an album that chronicles the history of Black women in American music,
The Post and Courier reports.
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Reflecting the internal battle of the self . Jaubi, with Tenderlonious, centre. Photograph: Uzma Rao
Reflecting the internal battle of the self . Jaubi, with Tenderlonious, centre. Photograph: Uzma Rao
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The Pakistani improvisational quartet Jaubi gained international recognition with 2020âs Ragas from Lahore LP, a collaboration with London-based jazz instrumentalist Tenderlonious that tapped into the spiritual jazz tradition of reworking Indian classical compositions to create a new improvisatory hybrid â a gesturing from the outside in, as the likes of Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry had previously explored. During the same improvised sessions in April 2019 that produced Ragas from Lahore, Jaubi recorded a separate, thematic suite, Nafs at Peace. Now released as their debut group album, Nafs at Peace starts in the Indian classical tradition and extends its tenets outwards to subtly incorporate atypical instrumentation such as