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Phife Dawg’s mother believes it is important to open with a story that illuminates the cleverness and wit that her son carried through most of his life. “Malik started playing piano at age eight,” the poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor says. “He stuck with it for about three years, and then finally one day he came home very agitated. He and his teacher had had a huge fight. Malik told me that he was not returning to piano lessons and that he didn’t want to work with his teacher anymore because her breath stunk.” Then comes the punchline: “I knew that her breath did stink, but I could not ...

Apr 26, 2021 / 04:32 PM EST Rob Dixon, saxophonist, joined us today to play, “Millions,” a song off his new album. He’s apart of the Rob Dixon Trio, and they perform regularly at the Jazz Kitchen The Indianapolis Jazz Collective is an all-star group of Indy’s best and exists to present special guest soloists and notable jazz luminaries. The Collective is led by Indy Jazz Fest Artistic Director and saxophonist Rob Dixon. Rob Dixon & his groove oriented band Triology are of Indy’s best in the funk, groove and jam band scene expect a soulful night of killer originals and gro...

Best Comic of the Week: SWORD #5 – In the aftermath of the King in Black event, it’s time to resurrect the people who died fighting Knull on Krakoa.  Magneto has requested that Fabian Cortez be bumped up the queue, but largely, it seems, in order to humiliate him in front of the Quiet Council.  Cortez has never been an interesting or likeable character until Al Ewing got his hands on him, so I enjoyed this issue.  I also like the way Ewing is building on events that have happened in his Guardians of the Galaxy run (Snarkwar), and is quietly taking over his own corner of the Marvel Univ...

New Music Reviews (4/5) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Abbie) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from serpentwithfeet, DEACON (Secretly Canadian) The excellent second album from this Baltimore-bred, LA-based artist (aka Josiah Wise) brings a more optimistic perspective to his expansive R&B/gospel-influenced sound, forsaking the dark, sometimes stormy textures and tor...

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernisin...