American Patchwork Quartet Weave Modern Immigrant Dreams Into Songs
In 2020, singer Falu Shah, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, drummer Clarence Penn and guitarist & vocalist Clay Ross teamed up to form American Patchwork Quartet. They re on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American roots music, interpreting timeless songs through a 21st century lens.
It s not an accident that the four members of the group, each with a thriving solo career, came together to start reinterpreting American roots music. The quartet s goal is purposeful: to unleash music s magic to help counteract pervasive prejudices around immigration and race. American Patchwork Quartet consists of an eleventh-generation classical Hindustani musician, a drumming protégée of the late Ellis Marsalis, a first-call
WTJU Feb 23rd, 2021 | By Russell Perry
Frank Kimbrough
Although he has been gone now 39 years, and it has been much longer since he stopped writing, no composer of modern jazz has garnered more attention from his fellow musicians than Thelonious Monk, whose work is the subject of a continuous stream of tribute recordings. Groups as diverse as the Bobby Broom Trio, the Microscopic Septet and John Beasley and MONK’estra have assembled releases from their favorite compositions, but Miles Okazaki, in a solo set, and the Frank Kimbrough Quartet have gone all in with releases of every known Monk composition – the ultimate homage. Tributes to the composer Thelonious Monk in this hour and the next of Jazz at 100 Today!
New Yorkers On Why They Love NYC, Now More Than Ever
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As part of our Dear NYC series, we asked New Yorkers at the end of one of the most painful and difficult years in New York City s history to tell us why they love this city. We ve received an overwhelming amount of responses, and unsurprisingly heartfelt, humorous and creative submissions in the form of cross-stitches, written odes, paintings, audio messages, poems, and even a series of rug hookings honoring 1970s New York. Oh hell, let s start there:
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arrow Submitted for Dear NYC: Times Square, 1976, rug hooking. Mary Tooley Parker