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"You have to stretch your vocabulary to parse All Ya Needs That Negrocity, the pointedly titled 12th album from Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber. Burnt Sugar is the sprawling, tribal band Village Voice writer Greg Tate (on guitar, lyrics and laptop)…

The name “Sho-Shin” is derived from a concept of the Zen Buddhism which means “beginner’s mind”, and express the idea of a fresh, spontaneous, trans-idiomatic approach to musical improvisation. The duo has already performed in numerous contexts in…

Anyone who loves acoustic bass in a jazz context will adore this album. Great standards played with rhythmic and harmonic flair that only the best of the best can muster. Eddie Gomez is certainly in that select group. Of special interest are Eddie's…

The virtuoso vibraphonist Cal Tjader, who died in 1982, is honored on "Tjader-ized" by vibraphonist Dave Samuels, who can also be heard on marimba. It turned out to be a beautiful CD, on which giants from Latin jazz such as Dave Valentin (flute), Ray…

Baba comes out with a mellow,laid-back hip hop CD.

Emmy Award-nominated Liza Garza is a rare soul. An HBO Def poet and vocalist, Liza possesses the uncommon ability to keep listeners captivated while provoking social change and action in the community. “You Never Knew Until I Spoke”, her first book…

The Taste of TG (subtitled A Beginner's Guide to the Music of Throbbing Gristle) is a compilation album by Throbbing Gristle.[3] The cover art is a manipulation by Peter Christopherson of a still from the Pier Paolo Pasolini film Salò o le 120…

The Boys Driest grew up with wind instruments. Their trio is a mini-fanfare. Rooted in the fanfare tradition, drawing on wind music from all over the world. The three musicians, Janfie van Strien (1969) - soprano sax, Arno Bakker (1968) - sousaphone…

Science rapper and inventor of several novel hip-hop variants. Canadian transplant to New York. Pathological optimist.

Theatre, performance art, or spoken word--whatever you call it, the work of actor/writer Danny Hoch is a solo tour de force. In Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People, New York City's rich oral traditions come alive on the page, as Manhattan…