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Monday, 16 October 2023, 04:14 PM

Monterey Jazz Festival, Part 3

Here's Tom Ehrlich's third of four galleries from this year's Monterey Jazz Festival.

Sullivan Fortnier

Kendrick Scott

Jeremy Pelt (trumpet) and Lew Tabackin (sax)

Charles Lloyd (flute) and Gerald Clayton (piano)

Angela Davis and Terri Lyne Carrington

Billy Childs

Sean Jones

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Thursday, 12 October 2023, 08:20 PM

Amazing Cuban Podcasts

Changüí!

We've all been waiting for this episode of The Clave Chronicles.

The genre of Changüí is one of the great "missing links" of rhythm: like guaguancó, chachalokefún, guarapachangueo, the Oru Seco, James Brown c. 1970, J. Dilla c. 2000, Count Basie c. 1940, Arsenio from 1940 to 1952. And this week's Clave Chronicles guest, Ben Lapidus, is definitely the missing link in terms of studying this mysterious and fabulously funky genre. He's the world's leading English language source of information on the subject -- from his seminal book ...

... to his work on last year's 4-CD boxset, The Sound of Guantánamo.

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Monday, 09 October 2023, 02:41 PM

Monterey Jazz Festival, Part 2

Click here for Tom Ehrlich's second gallery from the 2023 Monterey Jazz Festival.

Ray Obiedo guitar (with Colin Douglas & Michael Spiro)

Elena Pinderhughes flute and Lionel Loueke guitar

Delvon Lamarr

John Santos

Lakecia Benjamin sax and Ivan Taylor bass

Zaccai Curtis

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Friday, 06 October 2023, 04:19 PM

Tirso's Musical Legacy

I was honored to help out with a special episode of The Clave Chronicles devoted to Tirso's contributions to La Charanga Habanera, Pachito Alonso, Los Que Son Son and timba in general. Among other things we focused on the art of musical quotation. The great timba arrangers use ideas from the entire history recorded music in the same way that hip-hop producers incorporate actual audio samples. In our exploration of El bla bla bla from Charanga Habanera, and Iala from Tirso's solo career, we found "samples" from samba and bossa nova, to Pablo Milanés' nueva trova, to Makuta folkloric music, santería songs, Walt Disney movie themes, and even Frederic Chopín. Tirso is no longer with us but his music lives on, even as Chopin's music lives on through Tirso's work. [Kevin Moore]

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