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Samantha “GhettoSongBird” Hollins is an independent Culture Rock singer-songwriter-guitarist, journalist, published writer, radio show host on WHGE 95.3FM (in Wilmington, DE), filmmaker, theater stage manager and historian from North Philadelphia. Since 2001 she has been blazing stages at legendary Rock venues including CBGB's (NYC), The Bitter End (NYC), The Whisky A Go-Go (L.A.), The Mint (L.A.), The Troubadour (London) The legendary Overthrust Winter Mania Metal Fest in (Botswana), The Trocadero (Philadelphia) and The World Cafe Live (Philadelphia). She was also the curator of her own festival Wingdomfest (2005-2008) and presently her digital publication Theculturerockgriot.com. Recently there has been a documentary filmed about a segment of GhettosongBird's Philadelphia story (by Angel Hogan) and she was the recipient of a prominent award called The SweetPea Washington Star Legacy Award, alongside many of her music hero's. GhettoSongBird recorded her “Alley Of The Earth” EP in Los Angles (2002) with the help of her mentor Rosa Lee Brooks (a recording artist in the 60's, who wrote and recorded with Jimi Hendrix and recently passed away). The first single “landed" the Songbird on the classic B.E.T. show 106 & Park in 2003 in between Hip-Hop and R&B music videos, which was groundbreaking. She was also introduced to the L.A. music scene playing with musicians who played with Little Richard, Chaka Khan and The Chamber Brothers to name a few. Mrs Songbird and her Roxsploitation band (featuring her husband Ronin Ali on drums, her best friend Chris Nelson on keys, her 9 year old son Jembé on Djembe, her 12 year old son Clavé on 2nd Keys, her 6 year old son Ikembé on hand percussion and her 13 year old daughter Lihlo doing video and photography) has shared stages with some of their heroes including HR (Bad Brains), Angelo (Fishbone), RES, Free Form Funky Freaks (including Vernon Reid of Rock band Living Colour with Philly legends bassist: Jamaaladeen Tacuma & drummer: G. Calvin Weston), Botswana's metal legends Overthrust, spoken word pioneers The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez and many veteran musicians. GhettoSongBird's message music (she calls Culture Rock) has made a lingering impact playing throughout the USA, Australia, the U.K., Brazil and Africa, breaking rules along her extraordinary journey.Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Prince featured the "Upper Room with Joe Kelley and Gi Dussault" on his official website www.npgmusicclub.com. This is the first radio show to have ever received that honor. "Musicians Reveal with Joe Kelley" has been on the radio airwaves since 1982. Joe Kelley and Gi Dussault co-host the show and are well-respected in the music business as creative air personalities and supporters of independent musicians . Our web site is located at www.musiciansreveal.com . The show features creative music in funk, R&B, jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop, latin, and gospel. In addition, Joe Kelley has interviewed renowned musicians such as Victor Wooten, Sheila E. , Foley, Robin Duhe, Jef Lee Johnson, Jellybean Johnson, Monte Moir, Rhonda Smith, Bernie Worrell, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Bland, Larry Graham, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, Steve Smith, St. Paul Peterson, JD Blair, Tori Ruffin, Kat Dyson, Eric Person, actor Jeff Daniels, Junior Giscombe, John Scofield, EC Scott, John Blackwell, Mystic Bowie, and many others.

The celebrated saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis visited with Sean from the Afternoon Cruise to discuss the music and legacy of Ornette Coleman on Coleman's birthdate, March 9. Lewis's path in the music world is connected to Coleman not only by Coleman's musical legacy, but also by players like Charlie Haden and Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who have worked with Coleman and Lewis.

The celebrated saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis visited with Sean from the Afternoon Cruise to discuss the music and legacy of Ornette Coleman on Coleman's birthdate, March 9. Lewis's path in the music world is connected to Coleman not only by Coleman's musical legacy, but also by players like Charlie Haden and Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who have worked with Coleman and Lewis.

Inspired by Leo Sidran's latest single, "There Was a Fire", this week we look into various threads of memory--making (or memory--keeping) that can be found in projects that bring together various cultulal traditions (West-African or Cuban, Mitteleuropean or Japanese), bring new light to old repertoires, pay tribute to earlier composers or music-genres. The playlist features Eve Risser; chuffDRONE; Jamaaladeen Tacuma [pictured]; King Klavé; Shoko Igarashi; Antonio Sanchez, Dave Matthews, Pat Metheny; Leo Sidran; Dave Douglas; David Chevallier, Laurent Blondiau, Sébastien Boisseau, and Christophe Lavergne. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/16474585/Mondo-Jazz (from "Gamse" onwards). Happy listening! Photo credit: Žiga Koritnik

I have said two things all season long. The first is that we're going to be exploring a single topic for ten episodes, and that topic is fusion. But the second thing I've been saying is that what I'm talking about when I say the word fusion isn't a style or a genre, but a state of mind. It's not what you play, it's how you approach music-making.In previous episodes, we've talked about what people typically think of as fusion, which drummer Lenny White, who appeared in episode two of this series, prefers to call jazz-rock. That's the version that more or less starts with Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Tony Williams' Lifetime and branches out to include Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return To Forever and Weather Report. But my version of that continuum also includes early Seventies Santana, it includes the Fania All Stars collaborating with Jan Hammer and Billy Cobham, it includes adventurous funk and R&B fusion, like P-Funk and Earth, Wind & Fire and the Ohio Players and Slave, and it includes jazz-funk acts like Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard and George Duke.Vernon Reid is a guitarist who was born in England but grew up in New York. He's best known as the leader of Living Colour, and one of the co-founders of the Black Rock Coalition along with the late writer Greg Tate, but he's got a long and varied discography that encompasses solo material, duo and trio work with other guitarists like Bill Frisell, David Torn and Elliot Sharp, and guest appearances with a ton of groups from Public Enemy to the Rollins Band, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Santana, and many, many more. His solo album Mistaken Identity from 1996 is the only album to carry co-producer credits from Prince Paul and Teo Macero. Back in 2012, he made an album with a group called Spectrum Road which featured John Medeski on keyboards, Jack Bruce on bass, and Cindy Blackman Santana on drums — it was conceptually a tribute to Tony Williams Lifetime, but it's very much its own thing as well, so definitely check that out.Reid got his start, though, with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's band the Decoding Society. He played guitar, banjo, and guitar synth with that group, which had two bassists: Melvin Gibbs, who was on this podcast a couple of years ago, and Reverend Bruce Johnson, and then some horn players, mostly Zane Massey on saxophones and Henry Scott on trumpet. It's high-energy music that's also really melodic in a kind of post-Prime Time way — jazz, funk, rock, Texas blues and West African music all swirled together and thrown straight at your face at a hundred miles an hour. Their albums Nasty, Street Priest, Mandance, Barbeque Dog, Montreux Jazz Festival and Earned Dreams are all incredible. They're all out of print right now, too, but some of them are on streaming services, so dig up whatever you can. Reid has a new record out with the group Free Form Funky Freqs, a trio with bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who's also been on this podcast before, and drummer Calvin Weston, and as he explains in this conversation, it's full-on improv, starting from zero every time they play together, and because it's so limited – no rehearsals, no soundchecks with all three members – they know exactly how many times they've played together. The album represents their 73rd encounter. It's called Hymn Of The 3rd Galaxy, sort of a tribute to Return To Forever there, who had an album called Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy, and you'll hear a little bit of the music late in the podcast. I think you'll really enjoy this episode. I've been a fan of Vernon Reid's music for about 35 years. The first Living Colour album came out when I was in high school, and I saw them play on the first Lollapalooza festival in the summer of 1991. And I interviewed him once before, about 10 years ago, when he was doing a multimedia presentation called Artificial Africa. So in this conversation, we talk about his work with the Decoding Society, about the Free Form Funky Freqs, about the whole wave of guitarists who came up at the same time he did, including Michael Gregory Jackson and Kelvyn Bell and Jean-Paul Bourelly and Brandon Ross, as well as older players like James "Blood" Ulmer and Pete Cosey and Sonny Sharrock… we talk about a lot of things, and I'm just gonna end this introduction here, so you can dive in.MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE:Living Colour, “WTFF” (from Stain)Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, “Iola” (from Mandance)Vernon Reid & Bill Frisell, “Size 10 1/2 Sneaks” (from Smash & Scatteration)Free Form Funky Freqs, “Outer Arm” (from Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy)

On May 1 at BAM, there will be a reimagining of Ornette Coleman's seminal 1959 album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, featuring an all-new Bang on a Can Orchestra including his son, drummer Denardo Coleman, as well as Jason Moran, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Lee Odom, Wallace Roney Jr. and special guest James “Blood” Ulmer —conducted by Awadagin Pratt. Six composers rearranged & rework tracks from The Shape of Jazz to Come to honor the six pieces on the album that established Coleman as one of America's visionary musicians. Denardo Coleman joins us to preview the show.

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Adele Bertei was born in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of an Italian immigrant and a ballroom dance instructor.  She became a ward of the state in 1967, with the rest of her childhood years spent in foster homes and reformatories in the greater Cleveland area. Emancipated at 17, she worked a series of jobs including OT assistant at a Veteran’s Hospital, and as one of the first women to work on the assembly line at the Ford Motors plant in Lorain, Ohio in 1973. Her career in music began as singer/guitarist in a rock band called Peter and the Wolves, performing at longshoremen and biker bars in Cleveland. The premature death of bandmate, the legendary Peter Laughner of Pere Ubu resulted in Bertei's move to New York in 1977, where she quickly became a pivotal figure in a counter-cultural movement of art, film, music, and literature. She was an original member of the critically lauded Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on the seminal No New York record. Reading prose and poetry, she opened for writers such as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kathy Acker among many others. Bertei acted in several underground films, including a lead role in Born In Flames by Lizzie Borden, films by Scott & Beth B., and films by Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick. She’s been the subject of artists and photographers Kiki Smith, Richard Prince, Nan Goldin, Zoe Leonard, and David La Chappelle. Bertei has toured the world as a musician with her band, the Bloods – one of America’s first all-girl bands – and as backing singer with Tears for Fears. She has performed and recorded as a backing vocalist for artists such as Thomas Dolby, Culture Club, Whitney Houston, Sandra Bernhard, and Matthew Sweet among others. She released records as a solo artist with both the Geffen and Chrysalis labels and has had international dance and pop hits with Thomas Dolby (“Hyperactive!”) and Jellybean (“Just a Mirage”). Bertei has written songs for artists as diverse as Peter Laughner, Thomas Dolby, Scritti Politti, Sheena Easton, Arthur Baker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Matthew Sweet, Lydia Lunch, the Pointer Sisters,  Jellybean Benitez, and the Anubian Lights.     Adele Bertei's info    https://www.adelebertei.com/ https://www.facebook.com/adelebertei1 https://www.instagram.com/adelebertei/

Adele Bertei is a multi-disciplinary artist —poet, writer, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. She was an original member of New York incendiaries, the Contortions, while working as personal assistant to Brian Eno. Adele has appeared in several indie films, most notably Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames, and MoMA has acquired two films featuring Adele in lead roles. Her all girl punk-funk band The Bloods was the first out band of queer women. She has toured with, provided backing vocals, and written songs for Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, Sophie B. Hawkins, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Sheena Easton, Oleta Adams, Lydia Lunch, and the Pointer Sisters. Adele's work as a vocalist includes her duet with Thomas Dolby on international hit “Hyperactive!” and the lead on Jellybean's dance/pop hit “Just a Mirage”.  Opening for writers Kathy Acker and Allen Ginsberg among others in the late 1970s, Adele's stories and essays appear in compilations The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, edited by Eileen Myles, and Women Who Rock, edited by Evelyn McDonnell. Her first memoir Peter and the Wolves was released in 2020 on Smog Veil Books, and Why Labelle Matters, a book of hymnals to the band who gave the world "Lady Marmalade". The book was released on March 23, 2021 and is now available from the University of Texas Press.

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Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 52nd episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, and is sponsored by Harry's men's grooming products. If you’re listening to this, you can get a Harry’s trial set at harrys.com/burning. You’ll get a weighted ergonomic handle for a firm grip; a five blade razor with a lubricating strip and trimmer blade; rich lathering shave gel with aloe to keep your skin hydrated; and a travel blade cover to keep your razor dry and easy to grab on the go. Go to harrys.com/burning to start shaving better today! James Brandon Lewis is from Buffalo, New York, a city which has produced a surprising number of musicians whose work I listen to a lot, including Grover Washington, Jr., Charles Gayle, Rick James, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Morton Feldman, and Cannibal Corpse. I’ve seen Lewis perform live twice, both times with the avant-garde rock trio Harriet Tubman. One time was a straight double bill – James’s trio with bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Warren Trae Crudup, plus guitarist Anthony Pirog, opened for Tubman. Then, at Winter Jazzfest in 2018, Tubman put together an expanded group to perform a re-interpretation of Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz. That night, the lineup was Tubman – Brandon Ross on guitar, Melvin Gibbs on bass, JT Lewis on drums – plus James’s trio, plus Jaimie Branch on trumpet and Darius Jones on alto sax. It was really fantastic, one of those things that you only get to see once in your life. You’re either in the room when the magic happens, or you get to hear people tell stories about it for years afterward. James made two records for the OKeh label – Divine Travels, which had William Parker on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, plus poet Thomas Sayers Ellis, who runs Heroes Are Gang Leaders with him, and then Days of FreeMan, which had Jamaaladeen Tacuma on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. By the way, if you’re new to this podcast, a lot of the people I’ve mentioned so far – Melvin Gibbs, William Parker, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma – have all been on in the past. Anyway, James followed Days of FreeMan with No Filter, which featured his live trio plus Pirog, and then he made Radiant Imprints, a duo album with drummer Chad Taylor, and An UnRuly Manifesto, with the trio plus Pirog and Jaimie Branch. And every one of those records is absolutely worth your time, so check ’em out. This conversation with James Brandon Lewis is the longest thing I’ve ever recorded for this podcast, and it went in a whole bunch of directions I wasn’t expecting. I wrote down about two pages of questions, and I think I asked three of them. You’ll hear what I mean – he has a lot to say on a variety of issues. This might be the most in-depth interview he’s ever done, and I hope you'll find it as fascinating as I did. If you do enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting patreon.com/burningambulance and becoming a subscriber. For just $5 a month, you can help keep this show and Burning Ambulance as a whole active and thriving. Thanks! Music heard in this episode: Heroes Are Gang Leaders, "Hurt Cult" (Artificial Happiness Button) James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor, "Under/Over the Rainbow" (Live in Willisau)

Hilary talks to Ava Mendoza about sedans, music store paranoia, and the nuances of being “you go girl”-ed. AVA'S BIO AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was legally allowed into clubs. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded/performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Adele Bertei, Malcolm Mooney, Steve Shelley, Mike Watt, Ikue Mori, Mick Barr, William Hooker, Nels Cline, John Zorn, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Matt Mitchell, Jon Irabagon, Matana Roberts, members of Caroliner, ROVA, Negativland, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Astral Spirits, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis. Friendly critics have quoted: “It's… Ava Mendoza's deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that's causing a ruckus in NYC's DIY hubs” (Brad Cohan, Noisey.Vice). “A wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique," (Lars Gotrich, NPR). "Mendoza plays these songs. She makes them sing. Her technique is impeccable, but her playing is astonishingly expressive. She doesn't just bend blue notes; she wads them up into a ball and throws them up against a wall... Mendoza knows what she does better than almost anyone else on the planet, which is tell stories with her guitar." (Aiding & Abetting). She was featured as one of Guitar World‘s “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know”. BRANDS/SHOPS MENTIONED Peavey / Fender / Radack Guitars / Seymour Duncan / Brooklyn Lutherie / Line 6 / Boss / Boomerang BANDS/ARTISTS AVA'S PLAYED WITH or COLLABORATED WITH/MENTIONED Devin Hoff / Trevor Dunn / Malcolm Mooney / Steve Shelley / Devin Brahja Waldman / Peter Conheim / Alex Marcelo / Unnatural Ways / Tatsuyo Yoshido / Daniel Moreno OTHER BANDS/ARTISTS MENTIONED Minutemen / Mike Watt / Nels Cline / Carla Bozulich / Mr. Bungle / Fantomas / CAN / Negativland / Ruins / Violent Femmes / Echo & the Bunnymen / Fred Frith / Shellshag / Jennifer Shagawat / Jessica Pavone / Jessica Ackerley / Sally Gates OTHER MENTIONS Astral Spirits Records / Relative Pitch Records / RIOT RI / Seizure's Palace Studio / Gowanus Sound / Monheim Triennale AVA'S HOT TIPS -Make sure to test everything the repair person does before you leave the shop -To prevent string breakage, wind your strings around the peg as much as possible -Graphite on nut and saddles keeps your guitar in tune with heavy tremolo use  AVA'S LINKS http://avamendozamusic.com (Website) https://www.instagram.com/avamendozamuzak/ (Instagram) Facebook MID-RIFF LINKS http://hilarybjones.com/midriffpodcast (Website) http://instagram.com/midriffpodcast (Instagram) http://facebook.com/midriffpodcast (Facebook) https://www.hilarybjones.com/gender-music-gear-survey (Gender and Music Gear Survey) CREDITS Ava's Bumper Track: “Dogbodies" byhttps://www.rachelblumberg.com/archcapemusic ( )https://unnaturalways.bandcamp.com/album/unnatural-ways (Unnatural Ways) Theme Music: "Hedonism" byhttps://towanda.bandcamp.com/ ( )https://towanda.bandcamp.com/ (Towanda) Artwork byhttps://www.juliagualtieri.com/ ( )https://www.juliagualtieri.com/ (Julia Gualtieri)

La RareNoise è un'etichetta con base a Londra, fondata nel 2008 da due italiani, Giacomo Bruzzo e Eraldo Bernocchi, che vuole dare spazio a musica avanzata senza porsi limiti di genere. Nella puntata di oggi presentiamo tre album RareNoise usciti nel 2019. Chi (come tai chi, la ginnastica dolce) documenta il primo incontro in trio fra il sassofonista Dave Liebman, il percussionista Adam Rudolph e il batterista Hamid Drake, avvenuto allo Stone di John Zorn a New York nel maggio 2018. Liebman e Drake sono anche nel quartetto del tastierista Jamie Saft che ha inciso Hidden Corners, un omaggio alla dimensione del jazz "spirituale" di protagonisti dell'avanguardia degli anni sessanta come John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler. Infine Tan Man's Hat è un nuovo album del gruppo Pavees Dance del batterista newyorkese, di origine irlandese, Sean Noonan, che una ventina d'anni fa si fece notare col gruppo punk-rock The Hub: con lui due personaggi di culto come gli afroamericani Jamaaladeen Tacuma, bassista che si affermò con il Prime Time, il gruppo elettrico di Ornette Coleman, e Malcolm Mooney, che fu il cantante della formazione originaria del gruppo kraut-rock Can.

La RareNoise è un'etichetta con base a Londra, fondata nel 2008 da due italiani, Giacomo Bruzzo e Eraldo Bernocchi, che vuole dare spazio a musica avanzata senza porsi limiti di genere. Nella puntata di oggi presentiamo tre album RareNoise usciti nel 2019. Chi (come tai chi, la ginnastica dolce) documenta il primo incontro in trio fra il sassofonista Dave Liebman, il percussionista Adam Rudolph e il batterista Hamid Drake, avvenuto allo Stone di John Zorn a New York nel maggio 2018. Liebman e Drake sono anche nel quartetto del tastierista Jamie Saft che ha inciso Hidden Corners, un omaggio alla dimensione del jazz "spirituale" di protagonisti dell'avanguardia degli anni sessanta come John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler. Infine Tan Man's Hat è un nuovo album del gruppo Pavees Dance del batterista newyorkese, di origine irlandese, Sean Noonan, che una ventina d'anni fa si fece notare col gruppo punk-rock The Hub: con lui due personaggi di culto come gli afroamericani Jamaaladeen Tacuma, bassista che si affermò con il Prime Time, il gruppo elettrico di Ornette Coleman, e Malcolm Mooney, che fu il cantante della formazione originaria del gruppo kraut-rock Can.

La RareNoise è un'etichetta con base a Londra, fondata nel 2008 da due italiani, Giacomo Bruzzo e Eraldo Bernocchi, che vuole dare spazio a musica avanzata senza porsi limiti di genere. Nella puntata di oggi presentiamo tre album RareNoise usciti nel 2019. Chi (come tai chi, la ginnastica dolce) documenta il primo incontro in trio fra il sassofonista Dave Liebman, il percussionista Adam Rudolph e il batterista Hamid Drake, avvenuto allo Stone di John Zorn a New York nel maggio 2018. Liebman e Drake sono anche nel quartetto del tastierista Jamie Saft che ha inciso Hidden Corners, un omaggio alla dimensione del jazz "spirituale" di protagonisti dell'avanguardia degli anni sessanta come John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler. Infine Tan Man's Hat è un nuovo album del gruppo Pavees Dance del batterista newyorkese, di origine irlandese, Sean Noonan, che una ventina d'anni fa si fece notare col gruppo punk-rock The Hub: con lui due personaggi di culto come gli afroamericani Jamaaladeen Tacuma, bassista che si affermò con il Prime Time, il gruppo elettrico di Ornette Coleman, e Malcolm Mooney, che fu il cantante della formazione originaria del gruppo kraut-rock Can.

As we ramp up towards Ragas Live Festival 2019, we are sharing all 24 sets of last years incredible festival.  3AM-4AM was a special moment for us all.   Ross Hammond (guitar), Pawan Benjamin (sax/bansuri), Sameer Gupta (drums)   Special Guests Renald St. Juste (percussion), Morgan Zwerlein (percussion) join in for the last jams.     Sacramento guitarist Ross Hammond has played on large stages and in small corners throughout the United States and beyond. His sound is equal parts jazz, folk, blues, spirituals and world music.  He has played for Hillary Clinton, to audiences of five and all points in between.  Ross has collaborated/gigged/recorded with: Kevin Seconds, Oliver Lake, Pheeroan AkLaff, Vinny Golia, Vladimir Tarasov, Tetuzi Akiyama, Nicole Mitchell, Lizz Wright, Dwight Trible, Calvin Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Alex Cine, Suzuki Junzo, Amy Reed, Nels Cline, Jeff Parker, Max Johnson, Steve Adams, Ken Filiano, Mike Pride, Catherine Sikora, Scott Amendola, Steuart Liebig, Sameer Gupta, Tony Passarell and more.      

In this episode of PoPolitickin, we are joined by YZ. YZ is an artist and is the owner of Blackworld Entertainment, a record company & management firm. He re-entered the personal management field and is managing producer/artist Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, X-Clan, Sonny Bonoho, Actor Tray Chaney, Met Bronson, D. Rose, Birmingham J, Ozara Ode, producer/artist Bobbie Fine; and producers: King Midas and DJ Cozmos. Additionally he has brokered for Stic. Man of Dead Prez and is the managing Consultant for the record labels NREG(Nappy Roots Entertainment Group) based in Atlanta; and Team Maverick/700 Block, based in New Jersey. YZ has helped discover such acts as Poor Righteous Teachers, Agallah, Urban Thermo Dynamics, a group feat Ces, DCQ and Mos Def. YZ expanded his entertainment realm by getting behind the scenes of the television and radio world. He is the creator, executive producer, and host of the TV show Comin at Ya Live and the Internet’s first hip-hop talk-radio show The After Thought. He has recorded with Aim, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Chuck D, Daddy-O, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rae & Christian, Quest Love of the Roots, The Visionaries, X-Clan, Zimbabwe Legit, 2Mex and many others. https://www.last.fm/music/Yz/+wiki

Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma is a legend. He was barely out of high school when guitarist Reggie Lucas recommended him to Ornette Coleman, who hired him for what would become Prime Time. He stayed with Coleman for a dozen years, working with James "Blood" Ulmer and recording albums on his own at the same time. He's been part of some really amazing records that I love, including Derek Bailey's Mirakle, James Carter's Layin' in the Cut, James Brandon Lewis's Days of FreeMan, and the Young Philadelphians' Live in Tokyo. He also produced the new Last Poets album, Transcending Toxic Times. In this interview, we talk about a bunch of different aspects of his career, his sound, his style, his upbringing in Philadelphia, and his interest in fashion. In addition to being a musician, Tacuma runs a consignment boutique in Philadelphia called the Redd Carpet Room, where he sells designer clothes he picks up while traveling around the world. This guy is sharp in every possible way, so I really think you're going to enjoy this conversation a lot. I know I did. This episode has no sponsors of any kind, so please consider visiting patreon.com/burningambulance and becoming a subscriber. For just $5 a month, you can help keep this show and Burning Ambulance as a whole active and thriving. Also, Osiris is conducting a listener survey. Everyone who enters will have the chance to win a limited edition Osiris poster, so take the survey today. Thanks! Music heard in this episode: Ornette Coleman, "Sleep Talk" (Of Human Feelings) Jamaaladeen Tacuma, "Tacuma Song" (Show Stopper) The Last Poets, "Black Rage" (Transcending Toxic Times)

Phil Freeman talks to bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

The Last Poets are considered to be The Godfathers of hip-hop, bringing poetry onto the turbulent scene in the 1960's. For over 50 years they have persevered, keeping their intent and their mission alive as they seek to enlighten all people about racism, social justice, and personal growth through poetry and music. Earlier this year, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, and Baba Donn Babatunde gathered at the Ropeadope Room at the invitation of renowned bassist and producer Jamaaladeen Tacuma. It was there that they listened for the first time to the full album that they had worked on for years. It was an emotional and historic moment, all recorded on camera as part of the 21Soul video series. Shortly afterward, we reached out to each of The Last Poets to record a podcast series to share with the world more about these unique and powerful men. Transcend the Toxic Times: https://fanlink.to/TheLastPoets Produced by Nick Perri & Steve Eshewsky. Engineered by Steve Eshewsky. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Our guest today, guitarist Nick Millevoi. To quote his bio, “Nick Millevoi is a guitarist and composer whose music searches for the sonic cracks between jazz, rock and roll, noise, and modern composition.” Nick has performed with Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the duo Archer Spade with trombonist Dan Blacksberg as well as making five full-length albums with the trio Many Arms. Since 2016, Nick's main vehicle is The Desertion Trio, featuring Johnny deBlase on bass and Kevin Shea on drums. Their first two records also featured Jamie Saft on organ and their third, the just-released TWILIGHT TIME on the Long Song label features guest stars Ron Stabinsky on organ and Sun Ra Arkestra vocalist Tara Middleton. It's a collection of radically reworked tunes from the oldies era and has already won notice from Rolling Stone magazine, who listed the new record's title cut as a “Song You Need to Know” in their May issue. Nick has drawn a lot of press over the years, he also writes for a number of guitar magazines, but I never really read his origin story On today's interview we talk about Millevoi's earliest music loves, playing his 8th grade graduation party, confronting the jazz curriculum in college, deflecting law school, touring with Many Arms, the music of Neil Young, Nirvana and Dick Dale, the inspirational Wildwood New Jersey, making the new record and future records he is destined to make.

The Last Poets are considered to be The Godfathers of hip-hop, bringing poetry onto the turbulent scene in the 1960's. For over 50 years they have persevered, keeping their intent and their mission alive as they seek to enlighten all people about racism, social justice, and personal growth through poetry and music. Earlier this year, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, and Baba Donn Babatunde gathered at the Ropeadope Room at the invitation of renowned bassist and producer Jamaaladeen Tacuma. It was there that they listened for the first time to the full album that they had worked on for years. It was an emotional and historic moment, all recorded on camera as part of the 21Soul video series. Shortly afterward, we reached out to each of The Last Poets to record a podcast series to share with the world more about these unique and powerful men. Transcend the Toxic Times: https://fanlink.to/TheLastPoets Produced by Nick Perri & Steve Eshewsky. Engineered by Nick Perri. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Last Poets are considered to be The Godfathers of hip-hop, bringing poetry onto the turbulent scene in the 1960's. For over 50 years they have persevered, keeping their intent and their mission alive as they seek to enlighten all people about racism, social justice, and personal growth through poetry and music. Earlier this year, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, and Baba Donn Babatunde gathered at the Ropeadope Room at the invitation of renowned bassist and producer Jamaaladeen Tacuma. It was there that they listened for the first time to the full album that they had worked on for years. It was an emotional and historic moment, all recorded on camera as part of the 21Soul video series. Shortly afterward, we reached out to each of The Last Poets to record a podcast series to share with the world more about these unique and powerful men. Transcend the Toxic Times: https://fanlink.to/TheLastPoets Produced by Nick Perri & Steve Eshewsky. Engineered by Steve Eshewsky. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Last Poets are considered to be The Godfathers of hip-hop, bringing poetry onto the turbulent scene in the 1960's. For over 50 years they have persevered, keeping their intent and their mission alive as they seek to enlighten all people about racism, social justice, and personal growth through poetry and music. Earlier this year, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, and Baba Donn Babatunde gathered at the Ropeadope Room at the invitation of renowned bassist and producer Jamaaladeen Tacuma. It was there that they listened for the first time to the full album that they had worked on for years. It was an emotional and historic moment, all recorded on camera as part of the 21Soul video series. Shortly afterward, we reached out to each of The Last Poets to record a podcast series to share with the world more about these unique and powerful men. Transcend the Toxic Times: https://fanlink.to/TheLastPoets Produced by Nick Perri & Steve Eshewsky. Engineered by Steve Eshewsky. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today, bassist extraordinaire, Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Jamaaladeen was our guest back in Episode 11 of the podcast, where we talked about growing up in Philly, his discovering the bass in his teen years, his joining Ornette Coleman's electric Prime Time band while still a young man, as well as his world travels and his love of fashion. A few months back I had him back as a guest on my show on WPRB-Princeton, at the time promoting his annual Outsiders Festival, where he's brought a number of improvised music line-ups for some incredible shows in Philadelphia. The 2018 edition brought back Ornette's Prime Time Band, now led by Coleman's son Denardo. I've edited the promotional conversation, but that still left much of interest. We discuss Jamaaladeen's recent TONIGHT SHOW appearance, his friendship with the band The Roots, the return of Prime Time, winning the Benny Golson award, working with the kid's rock sensations The Wiggles, Jamaaladeen's Red Carpet Room boutique, having kids, saxophonist Keir Neuringer and the Japanese sci-fi classic THE MYSTERIANS.

Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma is in the interview chair this episode. Not to discount the hard work that makes it possible, but for the music lover, Tacuma's career seems like a dream. After a couple years woodshedding on the electric bass as a North Philly teen, his talent is spotted and he is whisked away to the major leagues of jazz, first with organist Charles Earland, who had a sizable hit with the tune “Black Talk” in 1969 and then famously with jazz legend Ornette Coleman in his ground-breaking band, Prime Time. In 1975, at the age of 18, Jamaaladeen packed his bags and relocated for six months to Paris with Ornette's band, playing and recording the classic LP DANCING IN YOUR HEAD. From there Jamaaladeen's world expanded, playing international stages, releasing his own records and playing with Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, The Roots, Nona Hendryx, Kip Hanrahan, The Golden Palominos, and James Blood Ulmer on numerous and far-reaching sessions. Jamaaladeen's playing exhibits a good-humored excitement that flows from the man himself as we meet for the first time on mic. He talks about the Philadelphia he grew up in, his insights into Ornette, his appearance on Saturday Night Live, his interest in fashion and design, his exclusive clothing boutique and his new acquisition, the acoustic bass.

Jamaaladeen Tacuma ist ein ebenso herausragender wie umstrittener Bassist: Sein umfangreiches Schaffen reicht von modernem Jazz ueber den von ihm massgeblich gepraegten "Free Funk" bis in die Bereiche des Hip Hop und Rap. Dabei setzte er sich zeitweilig der Kritik aus, mit seinem explosiven Bass-Spiel die ihn begleitenden Musiker zu stark zu dominieren. Niemand aber kann seinen stilbildenden Einfluss auf nachfolgende Generationen von Jazz- und Funk-Bassisten bestreiten. Sein aktuelles Album heisst The Flavors of Thelonious Monk Reloaded und ist in Oesterreich im Vertrieb von Extraplatte erhaeltlich. Das Gespraech mit Jamaaladeen Tacuma fuehrten Martin Schuster und Alfred Krondraf.