I came across this performance on the Tweeter, and also couldn't find a title. Thankfully the band told me what the name was.
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I got the feeling that's something ain’t going right
and I'm worried 'bout the human soul...
Originally recorded as the title track of Attica Blues (1972).
(3 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10)Loading... Who says a jazz band can’t play dance music? Bixiga 70 was one of my favorite musical discoveries this year — I really dig the horn section’s sound and the many-layered grooves underneath them. Their fourth album, Quebra Cabeça, dropped in October.
Bixiga 70 draws their name from the Bixiga neighborhood of central São Paulo. On the band’s website, baritone saxophonist Cuca Ferreira details the sources of their sound:
From the very beginning, what we have always had in common is African-Brazilian music. Some of us come from Candomblé, others from jazz, reggae, dub, everything. The whole idea of the band has been to take all these different elements that form us, from Africa and Brazil, and create a hybrid from them.
If you enjoyed this cut, you can catch their full Cultura Livre appearance here.
(5 votes, average: 8.40 out of 10)Loading... Catch yourself an early preview of the Summer Mix in today's FMD post.
Also, Kamasi's new album drops today.
(5 votes, average: 8.80 out of 10)Loading... Hiromi is one heckuva pianist, with a long playing & recording career yet ahead of her. That's MFSB alum & legendary session man Anthony Jackson on the six-string contrabass (his invention) and ex-Judas Priest drummer Simon Phillips on the skins.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... I keep my eyes on Shabaka Hutchings' many collaborations. In addition to this band, he also currently records & performs with his "Afro-Futurist" band Shabaka & the Ancestors, Afro-Carribean jazz supergroup Sons of Kemet, and the jazz-punk sextet Melt Yourself Down. Oh, and he's also recorded with Mulatu Astatke and the Sun Ra Arkestra. This video's misnamed; the track is actually "Journey Through the Asteroid Belt."
(3 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10)Loading... We've spun a bit of Kamasi before, but no reason not to do so again. Good track for a Friday.
2016
I really want one of those Moog keytars. Also, those drummers are on point.
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