Posts tagged jazz
Agree, her response to the controversy was f-cking absurd and totally tone-deaf to the issues at hand!
Related:
ABC News defends her casting… : /
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Special Feature on Nina Simone this week to celebrate her birthday that passed on February 21st
http://radioregent.com/
For those of you not watching football today, here’s some Sunday jazz listening to hold you down:
“Selections by Brownswood Recordings’ Gilles Peterson, taken from the 20-album deep Black Jazz catalog. All tracks licensed from Black Jazz, release December 2012.”
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I’ll be on this panel later this afternoon. RSVP and join us if you can….
TODAY!!! (Sunday December 2, 2012)
More info: 416-204-1080 • www.musicgallery.org
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I’ll be on this panel next Sunday. Join us if you can….
Sunday December 2, 2012
More info: 416-204-1080 • www.musicgallery.org
this ad is EVERYTHING!.. BLACK fathers do exist!!!!
Surprise, surprise. This only makes sense, no??
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Another Cratery mix by Arcee, Kaewonder and DJ Serious:
I found Syd and the Troubadors’ Positively Spicy album at a local record show earlier this year. Cardova is a nice slice of West Indian funk that also happens to be a take on a Meters’ classic. The nerd in me will always be drawn to the novelty of finding an odd cover of a familiar song. But the truth is, the Meters original bangs way harder. Without question. That doesn’t mean ol’ Syd and his homies aren’t worthy of a Cratery appearance though. Enrique Lynch’s cover of Ballinjack’s Found a child is a DJ Serious selection that sounds like it grew up in a shrine in Peru © Jay Electronica. Surface level research (read: Google) suggests Lynch was a bandleader – like a Peruvian James Last, but way funkier with far better song selection. Which pretty much kills any similarity to James Last. And we’re pretty sure no one’s ever covered Thierry Fervant’s Samba pour Fernande, since it’s a random song off a French Soundtrack with a really long title on Gamma records. This Kaewonder pick does remind us that we’re long overdue for another Cratery OST episode. But not before we dip into our respective tiny record stashes for our annual all-45 hour (Cratery 45 – see what we did there?). Hey. Back to the lecture at hand. Cratery 44 fools. Stream or download below.
MILDLY INTERESTING CRATERY FACTOID: The store featured in this episode’s artwork is Volume Records in Toronto. And the dude in the v-neck is Mr. Attic of Da Grassroots. I believe this actual evidence of him buying records in 2012. Which is surprising. Considering he has everything already. Probably just minting up on his Miles Davis discography. That Pee, he’s a crafty one.
CRATERY #44 PLAY LIST:
01. Luis Bacalov – Motorcycle Circus
02. Thierry Fervant – Samba pour Fernande
03. Oneness of Juju – Poo Too
04. Syd Jones and the Troubadours – Cardova
05. Lazarus – Faces of tomorrow
06. White Elephant – Peace of Mind
07. Syreeta – Tiki Tiki Donga
08. Roy Ayers – Fire Weaver
09. Cannonball Adderley – Leo
10. Soul Explosion – Be my soul
11. Brass Construction – Talkin’
12. Maceo and all the king’s men – Maceo
13. Orchestra Harlow – Freak Off
14. Enrique Lynch – Found a child
15. Cheech and Chong – Interlude
DOWNLOAD: M4a (ian ed note: M4a??!?) | MP3 via Soundowl
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Essential reading!
The issues surrounding this unauthorized film depicting Nina Simone, which we might as well call a biopic since they are naming the thing Nina, are complex, multilayered, and multifaceted. The discussions of the issues are as complex as they are controversial; however, they are important conversations to have and keep having. The most frustrating people are the ones who imply everyone should just shut up and “wait and see” or “leave them alone.” That kind of attitude and oppression is not in the spirit of Nina Simone whatsoever. Quite the opposite. Nina was vocal, defiant, a warrior, an activist. She would not have simply shut up and sat down. She would’ve shown up at the studio with a shotgun to speak with Ms. Mort and slapped the makeup off Zoe. So let’s get that straight first. We’re going to talk about this and those of us with strong, impassioned opinions are going to express them. We will not be silent simply because it annoys those who aren’t in agreement.
Zoe’s complexion (the level of her “blackness”) has taken the forefront in the discussion. Her complexion as well as her phenotype/features. We’re going to have to address this since obviously it is dominating the outcry against this project, understandably so. However, I believe this issue is a byproduct of the much, much larger issue: the total gentrification of Nina Simone. This occurred at the inception of this film so it’s no wonder the script and casting have come to symbolize the total fictionalization of Nina as a person and as an artist.
The script, written by Latin American writer and first time director Cynthia Mort, is based in a series of lies. That is our starting point. Cynthia calls this her “artistic license.” Under that umbrella what Cynthia is implying is that she can pretty much do whatever the hell she wants and she doesn’t have to listen to anyone.
Click the post title link to read the full article. It is worth your time, believe me.
Related:
- Another open letter on the Nina Simone-Zoe Saldana biopic controversy by Kimberly Foster. [For Harriet via MOU]
- And yet another open letter to Nina, director Cynthia Mort by celebrity author & Egyptian-Sudanese Womanist, Kola Boof. And yes, Ms. Boof, India Arie, Viola Davis, Adepero Oduye (Pariah) or even still Whoopi Goldberg (apparently Nina’s personal choice to play her in any biopic although she might be too old now, to keep it 100) are all WAY better choices than Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone. Hollywood, smdh….
