lot of talking heads on this site too!

Listen to the music, forget the comments….

     Mtume says:     

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I just saw Q-Tip last night at the Holloywood Bowl in L.A. for the Sergio Mendez tribute album concert.

He’s still rocking.

for some reason Brooklyn has immense and enormous cultural and party power. anytime you go to a cool set in NYC it seems that the people from Brooklyn are always the most numerous and the loudest.

when i moved to New York, i hated it, but I ALWAYS loved Brooklyn.

those “Cool Like That” people that you love so much (blanking on that groups name–you know mecca, buttafly, and ladybug or something like that) did a similar thing. when they moved to the city they started repping Brooklyn so HARD and forgot about–where are they from? Philly?

i have some friends from queens who constantly discuss this phenomena of artists migrating to Brooklyn and not repping their own borrough. such convos led to Tahir Hemphill’s defend queens project. see here:
http://www.tahirhemphill.com/portfolio/id_dq.html

Oh, wow. I miss them. The genius, the soul, the intelligence, the wit…everything about them and their music, I miss.

And hey, does anyone know what Jarobi ended up doing cause I really dug his presence bizarre as it might seem.

one love,
Ekere

Hey Chris, when I said no swing or improvisation, I should’ve been more specific. I meant no JAZZ swing and no JAZZ improvisation. In other words, I didn’t mean there wasn’t any spontaneity or impromptu vocalizing. I meant no one is improvising on chord changes. No one is taking a melody and creating something different with it. There’s no swinging 8th note. (Although the b-side “If The Papes Come”–which we’ll be checking out next week–definitely does swing, in the jazz sense.)

And, by the way, I didn’t intend that distinction as an insult. I don’t think of any genre of music as being ‘better’ or ‘superior’ to any other genre. If you go back to check out the week we did Public Enemy’s “Powersaxx,” we refer to a conversation with Branford Marsalis (who is the ‘saxx’ in “Powersaxx”) where he clearly does conclude that jazz is different and better than hip-hop. Branford and I ended up yelling and hollering at each other that day–Kalamu had to jump in the convo to calm us down. (It was all cool though–Branford is good people. He’s just dead-wrong about the supposed superiority of jazz and classical. :-> )

Anyway, I wasn’t putting down either Tribe specifically or hip-hop in general. I was just saying nothing on People’s Instinctive Travels is jazz and furthermore I don’t even hear strong jazz elements. I hear jazz samples, but that’s it.

I wanted to mention too, that I refered to Tip & the Tribe as Brooklynites because that’s how they refer to themselves. (On this album, at least.) True, Tip’s bio says he was born in Queens, but the only borough they ever mention on People’s Instinctive Travels is Brooklyn. It’s like Ra said, “It ain’t where you from….”

- Mtume.

by the way, the jbeez “done by the forces of nature” and “mecca & the soul brother” by pete rock & cl smooth are excellent , too.