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Back in the day when Congo Square is the epicenter of artistic expression.
When music's exclusive role is to interrogate myriad moans, chants, cries,
and people tropes in an integrative moment of protest, spirituality, and
healing. Voices and souls from the Underground, th...
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The British Invasion to the United States changed the course of pop, rock,
and contemporary music in the sixties. Moving forward the four British lads
responsible created a songbook unrivaled. And that sunrise in post modernity
caught the attention of the Jazz artist. Tune ...
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The reverence the disc jockey holds for jazz radio is legend.
During KBOO membership drive The Motif explores the legacy created on
Portland airwaves, and beyond.
photo by Brandy Kayzakian-Rowe Photography
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Recent history of black oral music (1995 to present) betrays the evolution
and convergence of story telling and social movement(s) historically held
(Reconstruction to the 1980s), and told through a communal lens.
Sadly, a tradition that has witnessed the rise of materialis...
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A slow burning controversy is reignited with a generational, conflated
debate: White musician morphs, masquerade, or transgressions into Black music
forms. From pop dual The Righteous Brothers and their 'blue eyed soul', to
Jeff Lorber's jazz fusion, and Bruno Mars and Just...
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The Gospel of Jazz: The Fine Line Between Secular and Religious Music.
The music known as jazz evolved from songs of spirit,faith, labor, urban
life, and protest.
These complex music transfers migrate across music genres, and over the
passage of time, accumulate in the sou...
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When Pianist Joe Sample passed a few years ago, it also signaled the end to a
turbulent relationship with some jazz critics and his music output.
With the heat of criticism now ambers to ashes, a real time rigor of his
remarkable skill and versatility at the piano can now...
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