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The Broad announces  Time Decorated: The Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a three-part video series dedicated to the famed New York City artist. The video series includes three segments,  Jazz and Bebop,  Punk and No Wave, and  Bebop 2 Hip Hop via Basquiat, where musicians, creatives and scholars discuss the impact of each music genre on Basquiat’s now iconic style. All three segments were filmed at the Broad, in newly installed Basquiat galleries displaying the m...

Rolling Stone Chester Thompson on His Years With Genesis, Frank Zappa, and Weather Report He spent 30 years in Genesis as a touring drummer, but he had a falling out with Phil Collins in 2010 and they haven’t spoken since By Michael Putland/Getty Images Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned ...

NewsBlaze News SUMMER OF SOUL (Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Tue February 2, 2021 Sly Stone at 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, seen in “Summer Of Soul.” Photo: courtesy Sundance Institute This documentary is the digital resurrection of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The footage has been edited with narration referencing that time. What could have simply been a concert film becomes African American history in the making. It’s an unearthed treasure that’s destined to b...

48:50 While Woodstock dominated the music news in 1969, down in New York City, the Harlem Cultural Festival provided its 300,000 attendees with something more than sex, drugs and rock and roll. It gave many of them hope.  Imagine seeing this lineup live: Stevie Wonder (on drums!), The Fifth Dimension, Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Moms Mabley, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King and many, many others. The Harlem Cultural Festival was a c...

Go Off, M8 Dustin Krcatovich , February 2nd, 2021 09:43 Blood Music brings the drums to center stage, leaving everything else in the wings to fine effect In the beginning was the drum. Sure, millennia have obfuscated the mother heartbeat in countless insidious ways, but drums are what give way to dance, to frenzy… yknow, the good shit. If music is a form of communication beyond words, drums are the guttural howl of the ancients, the pound and throb of eternity. Drums have long been central to...

Vinyl Cave: "Money Jungle" by Duke Ellington Expand The Blue Note label is a legendary marque with jazz listeners for the quality of the music presented by co-founder Alfred Lion during the labels original heyday, as well as eye catching packaging featuring iconic photography by Francis Wolff and art direction by Reid Miles. Over the years the original records developed a mystique with record collectors, with copies in top condition selling for increasingly astronomical sums. So, a good modern ...

Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute In the hot and sweaty summer of 1969, the well-known music festival known as Woodstock happened in Bethel, New York. Everyone knew its name. One hundred miles away, there was another festival occurring that same summer with a little more seasoning...and a little more soul. And it was free to attend! Advertisement It was called the Harlem Cultural Festival, promoted and hosted by Tony Lawrence. It didn’t get even a taste of the mainstream press and basica...

Some footage is found in a basement. This footage contains a long forgotten event: the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. It featured a banging amount of black and brown talent. Nina Simone (the storm), Sly and the Family Stone (the radical racial and gender experiment), Stevie Wonder (the boy genius), B.B. King (the king), Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach (the black modernists), Gladys Knight and the Pips (the perfection of slick), the Staple Singers (the...

In an era when no local block party, let alone a Glastonbury or Bonnaroo, goes undocumented, its almost impossible to imagine an event like 1969s Harlem Cultural Festival being lost to history — particularly not with a lineup that included Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, the Staples Singers, and Sly & the Family Stone, nearly all at or near their prime. The reason for that is pretty much implied in the subtitle of Ahmir "Questlove" Thompsons  Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolutio...

Sundance is a place of discovery. Its where debut directors blossom, where some of the greatest names in moviemaking got their start, where a new class emerges. This year, it happens to be fielding some higher-profile first-timers than usual. Theres Golden Globe-nominated actress Rebecca Hall, behind the black-and-white adaptation Passing. Acclaimed comic Jerrod Carmichael, whose On the Count of Three is one of the fests buzziest titles. And that doesnt even cover the participants on EWs star...