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Read MoreMalcolm McLaren: A Brief Appreciation
The story of Malcolm McLaren’s emergence onto the pop music stage is pretty well-known, but as is usual with mythical creatures, any number of variations have presented themselves over the…
Read MoreJazz Fusion
History of Jazz: Part 7 Jazz fusion is a pretty big category, and we’ve lumped a lot of material together here. Basically, these are the granddaddies of the marriage of…
Read MoreFree Jazz and the Avant-Garde
History of Jazz: Part 6 Free jazz is perhaps one of the more misunderstood forms of music. Free jazz draws from other forms of improvisational music that are based on…
Read MoreThe Dawn of Hip-Hop DJs
From Brooklyn Disco to the Bronx Playground “The idea of a d.j. making something new out of other people’s music might seem preposterous. But there’s no question that a real…
Read MoreHard Bop, Post Bop & Soul Jazz
History of Jazz: Part 6 The strains of blues, gospel, and R&B that figured in the music of many hard bop musicians led to the development of soul jazz, which…
Read MoreGive A Damn
Spanky & Our Gang, John V. Lindsay and the counterculture meet in the whirlwind of 1968 by Marshall Bowden 1968, the summer of the New York Urban Coalition’s ‘Give a…
Read MoreThe Bebop Revolution
History of Jazz: Part 4 Bebop arrived on the scene, to hear the tale, a fully formed grotesque of music, a deranged Athena fully sprung from the head of the…
Read MoreSwing Music and the Big Band Era
NDIM Guide to Jazz
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