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Written by Emily Morrow on April 1, 2021 If legendary jazz musicians were collected together in one giant jigsaw puzzle and each musician was one piece – Thelonious Monk’s individual piece would be impossible to cut out. As a singular artist, his shape or place in jazz is too uniquely non-conforming. From a musical and historical standpoint, he is recognized as one of the first creators of modern jazz and a major influence on the later development of the Beb...

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Notorious B.I.G. wrote songs about hope, says jazz saxophonist who taught him music Biggie was still known as Christopher Wallace when he befriended jazz sax player Donald Harrison on a Brooklyn stoop. Harrison says he gave Wallace two key pieces of advice. Social Sharing Donald Harrison talks about Biggies early days in new Netflix doc, Biggie: I Got A Story to Tell CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 05, 2021 7:11 PM ET | Last Updated: March 6 Jazz musician Donald Harrison features in the new document...

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For the most part, an “inheritance” left to you by an older relative or loved one is considered a personalized, even intimate, gift. An heirloom, perhaps, or a collection of items, or maybe even a certain amount of money, or a home—some sort of one-to-one relationship between the person doing the giving, and the person doing the receiving. And Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut film “The Inheritance” begins with that setup: a young man inherits a West Philadelphia rowhome left to ...

Cisco Bradley 12 February 2021 Bassist, composer, and scene-maker William Parker has a colossal figure in creative music since the 1970s, particularly as a musician who has defined the sound of New York beyond the mainstream. His range is astonishing, but so is his focus. His recorded output is vast, particularly lately. Shying away from dealing with it all is understandable. Parker’s recordings as a leader exceed 100 albums, with sideman work—particularly with Cecil Taylor, Charles Gayle, ...

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Ana Katz, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 73 minutes. THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED a month ago, some very big deals have closed in recent weeks, and the Sundance Film Festival has closed its streaming platform, hopefully never to be used again—at least not as the primary means of connecting Sundance’s chosen movies to Sundance audiences. Having covered the festival for thirty-two years, the place—Park City, Utah—and my ten-day routine there is stamped int...

Great music, great footage, only occasional insight. TWITTER 3/1/2021 Emmett Malloys Netflix documentary is the latest attempt to tell the Notorious B.I.G.s story with the authorization of Christopher Wallaces estate. Its hard to do a convincing warts-and-all portrait when your subject built a livelihood celebrating their warts and even harder when youre determined to treat those warts as pimples. Thats the challenge facing director Emmett Malloy with the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Got ...

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating Black Joy and how that looks—whether it’s through art, family, food or music. Panama Jackson, senior editor of Very Smart Brothas, has brought us all the joy through the most iconic and Blackest album covers of our time. Granted, there are probably more than 28 out there, but it would be hard to top this series in all of its Blackness. A slew of my personal favorites made this ...