http://www.kalamu.com/bol a conversation about black music Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:45:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Third World—the longest running reggae band ever—kicks off the week and we follow with Build An Ark, an exciting jazz ensemble out of Los Angeles. We close with 10 versions of "Moment’s Notice" featuring composer John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Slide Hampton, John Blake, Suturo O’Farrill, Dexter Gordon, The Jazz Conceptions ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/15/march-15-2010/ I believe “Moment’s Notice” is the first original composition recorded by John Coltrane that went on to become a jazz standard. One of two famous (the other is “Blue Train”) compositions and both were on Coltrane’s only Blue Note recording as a leader. This week we ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/15/various-artists-%e2%80%9cmoment%e2%80%99s-notice%e2%80%9d/ Build An Ark is a Los Angeles-based music collective heard here performing at Cargo, a London venue, as part of a program put together by Red Bull Music Academy, which regularly brings diverse musicians together to collaborate and perform. Build An Ark founder, Carlos Nino, explains the ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/15/build-an-ark-live-cargo-%e2%80%93-london/ We sat in the back yard ital-ly eating vegetarian and mutually enjoying each other’s company as we reasoned and fellowshipped together. What a sight we must have been, all of us in our twenties believing with all our hearts and minds that we really were going to make a revolution. ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/15/third-world-%e2%80%9cthird-world-mixtape%e2%80%9d/ This week start off catching early John Coltrane and then safari to Kenya to check out Just A Band and close out enjoying the vocalese of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/08/march-8-2010/ Rarely can anyone say that one recording is the definitive example of a particular development of the music or, for that matter, of the importance of a master musician, but in this case, without fear of contradiction, we can say that this 2CD set (which is actually a compilation of ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/08/lambert-hendricks-ross-%e2%80%9clhr-mixtape%e2%80%9d/  Talk about DIY (Do It Yourself), this trio out of Kenya, East Africa is beyond any band I’ve heard of before. Just A Band composes, performs, and engineers their music, BUT they also do all their own graphics, packaging, marketing, AND they do their own videos, some of which include ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/08/just-a-band-%e2%80%9cjust-a-band-mixtape%e2%80%9d/ I am a believer in the music of John Coltrane.  What I hear in Coltrane’s music is an unmistakable yearning, an altissimo reaching, both deeper and higher; deeper into the depths of himself, and far, far outward towards the out-a-sphere beyond himself.He wanted, simultaneously, to be and to become. For ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/08/john-coltrane-%e2%80%9ccatchin%e2%80%99-the-early-trane-mixtape%e2%80%9d/ The Cape Verde connection is featured this week with classic jazz from Horace Silver and a hybrid from Carmen Souza, plus 15 versions of "Save Your Love For Me" featuring Art Farmer/Benny Golson with Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, David Fathead Newman, New York Voices, Khalil El Zabar, Jack McDuff, Bobby ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/01/march-1-2010/ Last week when we considered Buddy Johnson, I had an ace up my sleeve. I knew all along the song I really wanted to get to was “Save Your Love For Me,” which is Buddy’s most famous contribution to jazz standards.So here we go again, taking a leisurely stroll with ... http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2010/03/01/various-artists-%e2%80%9csave-your-love-for-me-mixtape%e2%80%9d/