For the past few months, bassist Dezron Douglas and harpist Brandee Younger have dealt with the necessity of social distancing with their own kind of intimate gigs: a series of quietly uplifting performances streamed live through a shared microphone from their Manhattan apartment. Force Majeure collects a dozen of these songs along with brief, perceptive […]
Tag: Alice Coltrane
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Jim Dorling of the Pillowhammer on a kinder, gentler sort of earworm
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Peter Margasak, the Pillowhammer’s Jim Dorling, and the Father Costume’s Sam Wagster
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Natalie Chami of TALsounds on Alice Coltrane’s primal spirituality
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Leor Galil, Natalie Chami of TALsounds, and R&B singer Ravyn Lenae
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Black-metal lightning rods Liturgy rise above the storm
Front man Hunter Hunt-Hendrix discusses the strange, exalted, and uncategorizable new album that should finally end the argument about where the band belongs.
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Celebrating the good and bad of jazz producer Creed Taylor
A deluge of reissues of titles from Impulse and CTI Records celebrates the 50th and 40th anniversaries, respectively, of two iconic labels founded by jazz producer Creed Taylor.
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Nicole Mitchell performs suites dedicated to Octavia Butler and Alice Coltrane
I almost spaced on this, but flutist Nicole Mitchell is presenting two of her suites Saturday at the Velvet Lounge. Given their scope and ambition she’s only performed her homages to Afro-Futurist writer Octavia Butler (“Xenogenesis Suite”) and Alice Coltrane (“Many Paths to the Sea”) a handful of times total in Chicago. She’s joined by […]
