Venue: the Shrine (Halem/NY)
Date: April 21, 2018
Text by Dawoud Kringle
On Saturday, April 21st, 2Birds Band, a fiery quintet of mad musical geniuses, took over at Harlem’s legendary Shrine.
Venue: the Shrine (Halem/NY)
Date: April 21, 2018
Text by Dawoud Kringle
On Saturday, April 21st, 2Birds Band, a fiery quintet of mad musical geniuses, took over at Harlem’s legendary Shrine.
Dawoud Kringle reviewing Cecil Taylor’s life and career
On Thursday, April 5th, 2018, one of the most original and innovative pianists of our time, Cecil Taylor, died of natural causes at his home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn at the age of 89.
Taylor was classically trained, and valued European music for what he called its qualities of “construction” — form, timbre, tone color. He brilliantly incorporated them into his own jazz and blues based aesthetic. He once told jazz critic Nat Hentoff “I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.” Continue reading
Artist: Lyndol Descant
Title: All Love
Label: self produced
Genre: singer-song writer/pops
Buy CD here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lyndoldescant22
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: Time Is Fire
Title: Stories Untold
Label: Electric Cowbell Rec
Genre: alternative rock/nu world trash
Download and buy here: https://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle