Podcasts about west coast get down

Javier Starks is an emcee, songwriter, educator, and youth advocate. Starks provides audiences with a positive alternative by choosing to perform curse-free Hip Hop with verses that don't degrade women, promote drugs, excessive violence, or over-glorifies money. He teaches kids why self-respect and respecting others is so important when expressing ourselves through art.”Starks has performed at The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and more. Starks led youth workshops in Tripoli, Lebanon, and was commissioned to record an original song to honor Oliver Tambo's 100th birthday in South Africa. Starks has been featured on CNN and has appeared on local news stations including Great Day Washington (WUSA-9). He has performed, recorded, and collaborated with numerous award-winning artists including Logic, Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Miles Mosley, Chris Dave, Derrick Hodge, and the West Coast Get Down. In addition to his music career, Starks is the undisputed number #1 Onewheel rider in the world for distance. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 73 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with pianist Cameron Graves.I have a single subject we're going to be exploring through all ten episodes that I'm going to be presenting this season, and that subject is fusion. Fusion means much more, I think, than just the music that most people probably think of when they hear the word. Of course, it immediately brings to mind bands from the 1970s like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report: groups that were formed by ex-members of Miles Davis's band, playing extremely complex compositions that blurred the lines between progressive rock and jazz, while still leaving room for extended improvisation. But if you think of fusion as a process rather than a style, the discussion gets a lot more interesting. Because then you can pull in the music being made by Yes, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Santana, etc., all of which gets filed under just plain rock. And you can talk about the music Latin artists like Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, and the Fania All Stars were making at the same time. Or the really adventurous funk and R&B that was being made by Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament, Funkadelic, the Isley Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, the Ohio Players, Slave, which then leads you to jazz-funk names like George Duke, Billy Cobham, the Crusaders, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Henderson, and of course Mwandishi and the Headhunters. This is how I prefer to think about fusion. It's not just a specific, narrow slice of music, it's the sound of walls being knocked down across the landscape.So that's the kind of philosophical starting point for all the interviews I'm doing this season, and that's what makes Cameron Graves such a perfect person to talk to. Because he's a guy who crosses all sorts of musical boundaries. He's had a lot of classical music training, as I learned during this conversation, he spent several years studying Indian music, and obviously he's got a deep jazz background starting out as a member of the Young Jazz Giants with Kamasi Washington and the Bruner brothers, Stephen aka Thundercat on bass and his brother Ronald on drums, which evolved into the West Coast Get Down and all the albums that they've made over the last half dozen years or so. But Cameron's also a lifelong metalhead — in fact, he played keyboards and guitar in Wicked Wisdom, the nu-metal band fronted by Jada Pinkett Smith in the early 2000s. So he's not only toured the world with Kamasi Washington and with Stanley Clarke, because he's a member of Clarke's band, too — he also played Ozzfest.And here's an interesting connection: the drummer for Wicked Wisdom was Philip “Fish” Fisher, the drummer for Fishbone. And when you talk about fusion as the kind of big-tent/umbrella sort of conceptual thing that I'm talking about, you have to include them in there. They mixed funk and hard rock and punk and metal and ska and reggae and jazz into one big swirl, particularly on their most ambitious album, 1991's The Reality of My Surroundings. There's all kinds of music on there, from Bad Brains-style hardcore to Last Poets-style abstract jazz poetry. And of course they were the best live band on the planet from the mid '80s to the early '90s.Fishbone were never as big as they deserved to be, but they were absolute heroes in L.A., and they were a huge inspiration to all kinds of open-minded musicians who came up in their wake. Last year, I interviewed Terrace Martin, who's an alto saxophonist affiliated with the West Coast Get Down but is also a hip-hop producer who's worked with Snoop Dogg for years — in fact, he put together a live band for Snoop in about 2010 that included Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Ryan Porter, who's been on this podcast before, and other people from their circle as well. Anyway, when I talked to Martin, he expressed a lot of love for Fishbone. And he's now a member of Herbie Hancock's band, in addition to being part of R+R=NOW, a group that also includes Robert Glasper and Christian Scott. And Thundercat and his brother, Ronald Bruner Jr., were both members of Suicidal Tendencies, playing straight-up punk and thrash, for years. There are so many connections between jazz and funk and metal, when you look for them, and bands that combine them in various really fascinating ways. It's all fusion, in the broad sense.Another thing that's really interesting, to me anyway, is that there are so many direct connections between the West Coast Get Down guys and the Seventies fusion artists. Like I said, Cameron Graves is in Stanley Clarke's band. Terrace Martin is in Herbie Hancock's band. Ronald Bruner Jr. played with George Duke before Duke died. Thundercat covered a George Duke song on one of his albums, and had Steve Arrington from Slave on his most recent record. It really is like they're the next generation of fusion. And we talk about all this and a lot more in the interview you're about to hear. This was a really fun conversation that went in some very interesting directions, and I hope you enjoy listening to it.Music in this episode:Cameron Graves, “Planetary Prince” (from Planetary Prince)Cameron Graves, “The Life Carriers” (from Seven)Cameron Graves, “Red” (from Live From the Seven Spheres)

Sam and Peter continue to celebrate Black History Month by starting off the episode talking about The Beatles (hear us out!). Sam's song is by a San Francisco Bay Area artist and Peter chose to highlight one of the members of the West Coast Get Down. Today's episode title come from one of Frank Zappa's most famous quotes. Our songs for this week:Hard to Love by H.E.R., from her 2021 album Back of My Mind released via RCA Records.Red by Cameron Graves, from his 2021 album Seven released via Artistry Music / Mack Avenue Records.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/2songs1couple)

Creative M Projects Founder Melissa Sharee hosts with guest artist Grammy Award Winning Producer Eric Seats featuring JUSTIN SKY. LA-based artist, writer, composer, and performer, Justin Sky uses his craft to paint the picture of our many realities. Sky is the Distinguished first-place emcee of the Dub Magazine Hip Hop Competition, International main-stage performer at Festival Azure (Portugal), and formerly the emcee of LA supergroup, The West Coast Get Down. A consummate writer, Sky's first book, There's Comfort in The Darkness was published with Over the Edge Books in October 2016. Having performed with such musical talents as Mickey Factz, Kamasi Washington, Ill Camille, Terrace Martin, Thundercat, and Watsky, Sky has been billed in support of Grammy winning Lupe Fiasco, and has maintained Los Angeles and international residencies. He has graced renowned stages such as The Sayers Club, The Viper Room, Grand Performances LA, and The Grammy Museum. Justin Sky is a 3rd year Journeyman IT from the inaugural class in the Society of Spoken Art, a rap guild consisting of some of rap music's greats including Black Thought, Lupe Fiasco and more. With musical inspirations including Kanye West, Nas, Hans Zimmer and No I.D., Justin Sky breaks new ground on his own album, lush with rich, inventive sounds. EXPERIMENT 451 is available for streaming and purchase worldwide. www.JustinSky.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/4theartists/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/4theartists/support

Cameron Graves is a keyboardist, composer and founding member of The West Coast Get Down. A frequent collaborator of Kamasi Washington, he appeared on the saxophonist's groundbreaking album 'The Epic.' Graves' own debut album, 'Planetary Prince,' was released in 2017. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-zimmerman/support

A la croisée des chemins entre Hendrix et Mingus, Miles Mosley ne partage pas avec son illustre homonyme qu'un prénom entré au Panthéon jazzistique ; l'homme de la cité des anges fait montre d'une créativité sans égale, s'autorisant à engager sur des chemins encore vierges sa contrebasse boostée aux effets les plus divers, puisant à la racine de ses illustres aïeux pour faire jaillir des branches musicales ô combien novatrices. Plébiscité par le gotha artistique, tous styles confondus, du regretté Chris Cornell à Lauryn Hill, Jeff Beck ou Kendrick Lamar, Miles Mosley est un caméléon qui, avec une aisance déconcertante, louvoie entre son projet West Coast Get Down, ses propres albums et ses multiples collaborations. May the Miles be with you !

Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 54th episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with trombonist Ryan Porter. If you’ve seen Kamasi Washington live, you’ve seen Ryan Porter — he’s the trombonist standing directly to Kamasi’s left onstage. They’ve been friends since they were kids, growing up in L.A. together and playing on all kinds of projects, including Snoop Dogg’s touring band and the sessions for Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, and of course all of Kamasi’s records like The Epic, Heaven and Earth, Harmony of Difference, the soundtrack to Becoming (the Netflix documentary about Michelle Obama), and more. He’s also played on records by other members of the West Coast Get Down like Miles Mosley, Cameron Graves, and Brandon Coleman. Plus, Porter has made multiple albums of his own, including The Optimist, Force For Good, and Spangle-Lang Lane, which is a collection of children’s music, something we talk about in this interview. He’s also done a lot of session work on his own and as a member of the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, playing on records by Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Nick Cave, Quincy Jones, Anthony Hamilton and Leon Russell. He gets around. I talked to Porter on Wednesday, June 3. The interview had been booked a week earlier, and by the time it happened, the protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police had gotten well underway across the country – a lot of cities were under curfew, if they hadn’t already been that way because of COVID-19. So to talk about music with a guy who made an album of children’s music, and made two other albums with the titles The Optimist and Force for Good, almost felt like a kind of really dark irony. I mean, is this a particularly optimistic time in American history, the summer of 2020? I don’t think it is, and I’m straight, white, and middle-aged. If I was young, or not white, I would not feel especially optimistic about life in this country, now or in the immediate future. But Ryan Porter is an optimistic guy. He’s clear-eyed about the environment he grew up in, and how it shaped him, and the world he lives in and what he can accomplish, or put across, with his music. But I’m not gonna misrepresent the conversation we had. We talked about art, and creativity, and making a career as a musician and how that’s not just about taking every opportunity you can – sometimes it’s about realizing that you don’t necessarily want to exist on a certain level, and taking a step or two back. Like everyone else I’ve ever had on this show, Ryan Porter is a really smart, perceptive, creative guy, and I think you’re going to enjoy hearing our conversation. 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: Ryan Porter, "Madiba" (Live in Paris at New Morning) Ryan Porter, "The Psalmist" (The Optimist)

Scott Goldman, longtime moderator of the GRAMMY® Museum Public Programs Series, interviews upright bassist, vocalist, producer, composer, arranger, and founding member of the West Coast Get-Down, Miles Mosley. Listen as Miles speaks to the powerhouse of Prestige, the shared language of jazz, and how accidents make great art. Prepare to be encapsulated in a forcefield of love! (Miles Mosley appears courtesy of Verve Records.)

On his follow up to 2018’s The Optimist, Ryan Porter and his friends the West Coast Get Down are once again swinging for the fences and bring jazz into the spotlight for a whole new generation. Rehearsed and recorded in five-hour bursts in multiple locations, Force For Good is a fearless step forward into the future of American jazz that celebrates America’s greatest art form even as it challenges what came before it. Join us as we discuss Porter’s seemingly limitless talent, the normalization of jazz in the popular culture, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Vocalist Dwight Trible is originally from Cincinnati, but he's lived in Los Angeles since the early 1970s. He's recorded several albums on his own, but is probably best known right now for contributing to Kamasi Washington's The Epic and Heaven and Earth. Still, he's a hugely important figure on the L.A. scene, because he was a member of Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, and still works with that group now that Tapscott himself is deceased; he's also the executive director of the World Stage, a performance space and community center where Washington and the whole West Coast Get Down all got their start. He's not just a musician; he's an organizer, and a leader, helping preserve the artistic community there. In this interview, we talk about a lot of different subjects, including his work with Tapscott, with Washington, with Pharoah Sanders, and much more. It’s a very interesting conversation, and one I hope you’ll enjoy. Music heard in this episode: Dwight Trible, "Mothership" (Mothership) Dwight Trible, "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Mothership)

Seth and Rob set the table with a talk about Stanley Clarke and all of the musicians he has worked with over the years. Clarke is an innovative jazz-and-beyond bassist who even had a bit of hit with the title track of his Stanley Clarke Band record, “School Days” in the 70s, and with the landmark fusion band, Return To Forever. We learn about when the now-iconic “School Days” bass line came to Stanley, and about how RTF-band-mate Chick Corea convinced Stanley to start writing years before that. Stanley elaborates on the importance of Art Blakey, and about how Clarke was so moved by John Coltrane that he at one point even seriously considered ditching his bass to play sax. Stanley also talks about his recent work with the Smithsonian, how he chose to play Alembic bass. and the great honor recently bestowed upon him by the Montreal Jazz Festival. Stanley very much continues to make amazing music today, and the genesis and ethos of his poignant 2018 release, The Message is discussed. Stanley benefits from the compositional and performance talents of some incredible young musicians on this record, many of which are discussed including Cameron Graves (a founding member of West Coast Get Down) and Beka Gochiashvili (who was discovered by Condoleeza Rice in Georgia, the former Soviet republic). Perhaps best of all for some, Stanley shares some memories about jazz pioneer, Charles Mingus. Before the episode ends Seth shares his experiences at the Hulaween Festival in Florida, and Rob talks about seeing Bob Dylan in North Carolina and Bob Weir and The Wolf Brothers in Tennessee. We're proud to partner with Ben & Jerry’s to help raise awareness of The WaterWheel Foundation. As mentioned in the episode, listeners can receive free shipping on all orders over $50 using the promo code OSIRIS at checkout. Click here to order "It's Ice...Cream" and pick up a t-shirt. Do it today—the holidays are right around the corner. More information It’s Ice, Men’s tee https://store.benjerry.com/ben-jerrys-t-shirt-mens-cut-its-ice/ It’s Ice, Women’s tee https://store.benjerry.com/ben-jerrys-t-shirt-womens-cut-its-ice/ It’s Ice… Cream product https://store.benjerry.com/phishs-its-ice-cream-pint/ Cherry Garcia tee https://store.benjerry.com/ben-jerrys-t-shirt-unisex-cherry-garcia/ More on the history of Phish food: https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/phish-food-ice-cream Mini Doc we created about Phish Food and WaterWheel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvJaUOdBkDc Our Favorite Phish moments: https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/favorite-phish-moments wTnS is Produced by Rob Turner and Engineered by Josh Thane of Wonder Dog Sounds Studio. www.joshthaneproductions.com www.wonderdogsounds.com All social media management, promotion and website maintenance/building done by Harris Sullivan. wTnS is a proud partner of the Osiris Podcast Network. Osiris is a global community connecting passionate music fans with podcasts about music, artists, and culture; currently consisting of 15 link-minded podcasts and more can be found at www.osirispod.com wTnS Sponsors: Polay + Clark 21st Century Accounting (Don't wait till April and get screwed, get Polayed) www.polayclark.com Inside Out w/ Turner and Seth: insideoutwtns.com Twitter: @InsideoutWTNS Instagram: www.instagram.com/insideoutwtns Facebook: www.facebook.com/insideoutwTnS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

14 april staat TivoliVredenburg geheel in het teken van het Transition Festival, dat in samenwerking met North Sea Jazz wordt georganiseerd. Guy van Hulst (programmeur jazz) en Brent Oostrum (programmeur/marketeer) bespreken hun tips voor het festival, zoals de Noorse jazzformatie Jaga Jazzist, de invloedrijke fusion-gitarist Pat Martino, en Cameron Graves, een van de oprichters van de West Coast Get Down, het collectief muzikanten uit Los Angeles waar onder meer Kamasi Washington en Miles Mosley uit voort kwamen.www.transitionfestival.nl--De muziek uit de podcast:Monks Casinohttps://open.spotify.com/track/5CEmG9WMwybrtK6FkaxYv1?si=DwOmkrh_R1-M5kSm7ygrOgCameron Graveshttps://open.spotify.com/track/0RDPruYI8wmOrFTi3RMx6K?si=L65WnoaGR8OjjYutGX8uQQIda Lupino Projecthttps://open.spotify.com/track/6sUANkv1Pr8yeLnOTPJh3L?si=-PExfWvEQz-bpRUswc5PYgJaga Jazzisthttps://open.spotify.com/track/19CwW7Ny6YiqpSk7ZWpw5I?si=cKrXL3wjT5yIsL3QnFzlpgPat Martinohttps://open.spotify.com/track/14ju2mAvlt091Ns5sQnGYl?si=_F9W_05BRCSLO2jQBoGHkAMammal Handshttps://open.spotify.com/track/4bSjFyslz7l4kOcx85syHA?si=qnXBda6bSKW82f0icHDNUA--Podcast geproduceerd door David Achter de Molen See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eight years ago, before To Pimp A Butterfly, before The Epic, the West Coast Get Down was a rising force in the Los Angelas jazz scene...who recorded their epic work in Kamasi Washington's garage.On The Optimist, WCGD trombonist Ryan Porter is unleashing some of the group's early work as scrappy young jazz savants and in the process revealing the heart of what drives its member's dominance of the music world to this day. Bandcamp's Marcus J. Moore joins Kevin and Marcus K. Dowling (Iconoclasm) as they dig in on this sumptuous slice of music history.PLUS! What happens when revered DC-based jazz guitarist Anthony Pirog joins forces with the rhythm section of Brendan Canty (The Effects, Fugazi) and Joe Lally (Fugazi)? Find out on "Serpent Tongue" the first single from their upcoming debut on Dischord Records!Show NotesGet to know The Messthetics: Bandcamp | Facebook Incidental music courtesy of Aquatic Gardener. Hear more/buy it HERE.Support us on Patreon! [LINK]Support/find out more about Washington, DC's Uptown Art House [LINK] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Multi-dimensional LA-based artist, writer, composer, and performer Justin Sky, is not afraid to try his hand at whatever new creative medium will best serve his purpose. In my conversation with Justin I found him to be deeply spiritual – we talked a lot about opening yourself up to the creator within and allowing the art to just flow out of you. He has followed his instincts to great success, with doors practically falling open for him along the way. Justin uses his craft to push his audience to reflect and navigate our many realities. Distinguished first-place emcee of the Dub Magazine Street-Level Hip Hop Competition, International recurring main-stage performer at Festival Azure (Portugal), and emcee of tour de force Los-Angeles super-group The West Coast Get Down; Justin Sky is no stranger to the big stage. A consummate writer, Sky released his book There’s Comfort in The Darkness with Over the Edge Books in October 2016. A meditation on life’s most vital quandaries, There’s Comfort in the Darkness was accompanied by visual and musical installments marrying such themes in expert fashion. Having performed with such musical talents as Mickey Factz, Kamasi Washington, Ill Camille, Miles Mosley and Thundercat, Sky has also maintained local (LA) and distant (Puerto Rico) performing residencies. Justin Sky recently released his highly anticipated debut EP, EDEN, on December 1st, 2017. For more info on Justin and his work, visit JustinSky.com

Today's "best of" episode features bassist and composer Miles Mosley! About Miles Mosley: Throughout the years Mosley has written, composed, performed live, appeared in videos and recorded for various artists including Chris Cornell, Jonathan Davis, Everlast, Terrence Howard, Joni Mitchell, Lauryn Hill, Gnarls Barkley, Jeff Beck, Common, Christina Aguilera, Lesa Carlson, and Kamasi Washington. A founding member of the acclaimed collective, The West Coast Get Down, Mosley has released albums containing his own solo work, in addition to recording and touring with artists including Jonathan Davis (Korn), Miss Lauryn Hill (as her Musical Director and bassist), Harvey Mason, Kendrick Lamar, India Arie, Chris Cornell, Mos Def, Common and Andra Day. His newest project is with West Coast Get Down drummer, Tony Austin - a duo called BFI - their music is described as 'heavy soul', a mix of soul and rock. Listen to Contrabass Conversations with our free app for iOS, Android, and Kindle! Contrabass Conversations is sponsored by: D'Addario Strings Check out their Zyex strings, which are synthetic core strings that produce an extremely warm, rich sound. Get the sound and feel of gut strings with more evenness, projection and stability than real gut. Robertson & Sons Violins For more than four decades, Robertson & Sons has specialized in providing the highest quality stringed instruments and bows to collectors, professional musicians, music educators, and students of all ages. Their modern facility is equipped with three instrument showrooms as well as a beautiful Recital Hall available to our clients to in their search for the perfect instrument and/or bow. Upton Bass String Instrument Company Upton's Karr Model Upton Double Bass represents an evolution of our popular first Karr model, refined and enhanced with further input from Gary Karr. Since its introduction, the Karr Model with its combination of comfort and tone has gained a loyal following with jazz and roots players. The slim, long “Karr neck” has even become a favorite of crossover electric players. The English Double Bass Book The English Double Bass Book examines the great English double bass makers of the 18th and 19th Century, illustrating in fine detail the incredible work they produced. It also explores the fascinating story of how the double bass came to England, its development guided by the great Venetian virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti, and the rise and fall of the English double bass makers. To pre-order your limited-edition copy, please visit www.theenglishdoublebass.com. Subscribe to the podcast to get these interviews delivered to you automatically!

I remember picking up Robert Glasper's In My Element and being surprised to hear the Hip Hop, soul and elements of other genres dispersed throughout the album. Although, already a Jazz fan, I was elated at hearing my generation's music represented in an art form that was previously, largely guarded from exploration and breaking form. It seems from that moment until now, as the 2010s come to a close, Jazz has reversed its position and also permeated itself into the prevalent genres of music. Glasper aside, Jazz musicians have become the new rock stars it seems - Common even took Jazz musicians (Glasper, Karriem Riggins, Keyon Harrold, Derrick Hodge, & Elena Pinderhughes) to perform at the White House. The soundtrack to Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed album, To Pimp A Butterfly was largely composed and performed by the West Coast Get Down, and some of your favorite emcees can't perform without cats like Robert “Sput” Searight, Nate Smith & Maurice Brown. To the delight of many 80s babies, bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, gathered Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins for Show You the Way from his 2017 masterpiece, Drunk. The Grammy award winning bassist has worked with everyone from Badu and Bilal to Jhene Aiko and Suicidal Tendencies. The new lions are younger and influenced more by the sounds of Dilla and Hip Hop than Davis and Be Bop. Two sides of the same coin, I suppose because the music must grow or remain stagnant and give credence to the frequently espoused sentiment, "Jazz is Dead" which we know to be untrue. This mix could scarcely contain all the artists I wanted to include, but it's a nice jumping off point to discover a lot of great, current musicians that will strengthen or create a passion for America's original art form, Jazz. Richard Spaven - zeebra iii Ross McHenry - Intercosmos (Prayers Ep Version) Keyon Harrold - Bubba Rides Again NAUTILUS - We Live in Brooklyn Baby Kazumi Kaneda - Ink Ribbon Daniel Casimir - Cable St DJ Harrison - Kalimba Tale Terrace Martin - A Tribe Called West ft Keyon Harrold Eric Lau - Noma ft Ben Hadwen Takuya Kuroda - Thirteen Black Milk - Sonny's Dream ft Robert Glasper & Dwele Butcher Brown - Rule #1 Jesse Fischer & Sly5thAve - Sly Maurice Brown - Serendipity Brandee Younger - Dorothy Jeanne Christian Sands - Gangsta Lude Gas Lab - Jazz Cats ft Marcelo Gallo Trevor Lawrence Jr - Cornerstone ft Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Nico Segal Stro x 14KT x Mark De Clive Lowe - Part Two Nate Smith - Bounce: Pts I & II DJ Cam - Cantaloop Island ft Tassel & Naturel Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - No Love --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bamalovesoul-radio/support

Bolstered by the success of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly and his own, uh, epic 2015 release, The Epic, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, along with the rest of The West Coast Get Down have spent the past few years popularizing jazz to a whole new generation of fans. On Harmony Of Difference, Washington is digging deep and exploring smaller themes like the meaning of life and our place in the universe. Kevin and Marcus K. Dowling (Decades, Capitol Wrestling) sit down to discuss Kamasi's latest masterpiece and consider a few universal truths of their own.PLUS! Aaron "Ab" Abernathy's new album Dialogue, is a potent statement about the state of America today as seen through Abernathy's unique perspective, and is one of the best, and most important albums of 2017. We've got a listen to one of its highlights, "Generation," which is sure to be a rallying cry for the struggles in this "new" America for years to come. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cameron Graves is an LA jazz artist and member of the impeccable West Coast Get Down collective (Kamasi Washington, Miles Mosley and more.) He breaks down the connection with jazz and the universe, ancient Egypt, and his biggest inspiration "The Urantia Book." Check out his new album "Planetary Prince."

Cameron Graves is an LA jazz artist and member of the impeccable West Coast Get Down collective (Kamasi Washington, Miles Mosley and more.) He breaks down the connection with jazz and the universe, ancient Egypt, and his biggest inspiration "The Urantia Book." Check out his new album "Planetary Prince."

Besides being one of the founding members of the mighty West Coast Get Down, bassist Miles Mosley's resume (Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Lauryn Hill...) reads like a who's who of the biggest names in music. Earlier this year we reviewed his stellar debut solo LP, Uprising, and recently we had the chance to sit down with the master innovator before his ground shaking show at Songbyrd Music House right here in Washington, DC. Join us and get delivered some TRUTH about music, life, and existential excellence from one of modern music's most electric voices.PLUS! Cameron Graves (also a founding member of the West Coast Get Down) is one of the most innovative keyboard players on the modern jazz (or any) scene. On his new album Planetary Prince, he's pulling out all the stops and taking the listener on an intensely cosmic jazz odyssey...that also happens to be one of the best albums of 2017. Tune in, and drop out with the lead off track from this funk and soul infused triumph, "Satania In Our Solar System." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Miles Mosley's solo album Uprising has been turning heads across the globe since its release in early 2017.  "Abraham” was named one of NPR’s ‘Top 100 songs of 2016’, and Rolling Stone named him one of the 'Top 10 New Artists You Need to Know'. The list of artists with which Miles has recorded, toured and collaborated with is remarkable, including Christina Aguilera, Jason Mraz, Chris Cornell, Lauryn Hill, and Mos Def.  Miles played for several tracks on Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning album 'To Pimp A Butterfly', and he is a co-founder of the West Coast Get Down. We dig into all kinds of topics: career diversification studying with Ray Brown and John Clayton working through the George Vance books blocking out a solid month to record with his colleagues the evolution of and reasons for the effects that Miles uses how Miles got into composing for films ...and much more!  I had a great time chatting with Miles for the podcast, and I know you'll enjoy listening! Links to Check Out: Miles' website Uprising (new album) Miles on Social Media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Thanks to our sponsor! This episode is brought to you by D’Addario Strings! Check out their Helicore strings, which are are designed, engineered, and crafted at the D’Addario string factory in New York and come in orchestral, hybrid, pizzicato, and solo string sets. Enter our latest string giveaway for Helicore strings at contrabassconversations.com/strings!  

Tony Austin was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is one of two drummers (the other being Ronald Bruner... The post 105 – Tony Austin: Playing with Kamasi Washington, The West Coast Get Down, Redefining West Coast Jazz appeared first on Working Drummer Podcast.

Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss the tenor saxophonist and his roots in the thriving Los Angeles jazz scene.