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​ No American Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

​ No American, Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

British politics is in crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned in disgrace on July 7. His successor, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss, who took office on September 6, resigned in disgrace on October 20. The fall of the two prime ministers dented Britain’s reputation for ...
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Roots and Herbs

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

Hard Bop, Blues and Soul – all here, in this Lee Morgan Edition of the Messengers that consistently set top-tier records to tape for Blue Note.      The title tune is enchanting. One imagines one sitting with a skilled medicine man in Kahondo ka Byamarembo, in ...
Music for Intore and other African dances Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Music for Intore and other African dances: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Jazz music, rooted in the African slave experience and its aftermath in America, is music that has maintained the link with the African American’s ancestral homeland. No instrument exemplifies this better than drums and, to my ears, Art Blakey was one of the greatest purveyors ...
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers  First Flight to TokyoThe Lost 1961 Recordings

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers / First Flight to Tokyo:The Lost 1961 Recordings

The contents of the recently discovered tapes of this January 14, 1961 concert in Tokyo Japan are now on two vinyl LPs. Released on Friday December 10, 2021, the double LP package is as one would expect.   It is Art Blakey (drums) with Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter tenor ...

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