If you play instruments and want to play the type of stuff thats on this blog then get in touch through the comment section of this post… Think Strata East, Build an Ark, Kindred Spirits that type of stuff… ALSO vocalist, poets are definitely a must too. I Have potentially an interesting proposition for you for a new radical label…

OR…

If you do your own stuff and want to be featured here the send us some tunes?!? This blog gets about 2000 visitors per week so its good exposure…

Look forward to hearing from you

cheers.

BTW: Hopefully, Katonah will bring his Hurdy Gurdy, Reza on the Sitar and

Bacoso is playing percussion on empty stella cans…

I wasn’t gonna post this as at first wasnt happy with it… [it was gonna possibly be the Rhythm or maybe Sound part of FRS...] But Monohub is doing that and will no doubt make a better job of it — HURRY UP!!

But… I had a proper listen to it this morening and it ain’t too bad especially if you have a fuck off hangover… SO… I decided to up it to test out mixcloud which might be the new home for these mixes? Anyway, have a go of it from here Need about 500 listens to get to the top of the tree?!? Fat chance hahaha!

Last Poets: Mean Machine
Oracy: Brothers
Richard Abrams: Levels and Degrees of Light
Oracy: The Weight Don’t Make Things No Lighter
Ed Vesala: Call from the Sea
Heiner Stadler/Dee Dee Bridgewater: Love in the Middle
Gerry Hemmingway: Kwambe suite
Build an Ark: This Prayer for the World
Build an Ark: Love is Everywhere
Terumasa Hino: Dupe
Hal Galper: Now! Hear This
Jef Gilson: The Creator has a Masterplan
James Spaulding: Uhuru Sasa
Moye/Jarman: Black Paladins
Detroit Composers Ltd: Spread a Little Love

MH – Hope you get better soon mate!

Sun Ra done. Pharoah Sanders done. Next up is old Hip Seagull – Terumassa Hino, a vastly underrated Trumpet genius…

Hogiuta
Yuhkyu
Black Forest
Ode To Workman
The Free Land
Reve Provensale
Red Eye Special
This Planet is Ours

This one is for my good friends: EG and Vesper who have done more to educate me than they know… Hat well and truly tipped in both your directions!

RIP PHAROAH’S DANCE

If you ever seek out the originals of these tunes, you will see how complex this arrangement is. I dont give a fuck what anyone says, these mixes on this site and especially this one are deep rooted in the ethics of Hip Hop… This mix creates totally new tunes from old ones…

The first 20 odd mins of this mix are sliced, diced and chopped from two The Pyramids lps Lalibela and Birth, Speed and Merging. King of kings will come later…
Baraka – Albert “Toudie” Heath
Ed Vesala – The Wind
Jef Gilson – Malagasy
JayJay Clayton – Fragments
Sam Rivers – Turquoise
Oracy – The Weight Don’t Make Things No Lighter
Warren Smith / Composers Workshop Ensemble – Ann Of Nzinga
Richard Abrams – Levels & Degrees of Light
Sun Ra – Mayan Temples
Amiri Baraka – I Love Music
Don Rendell – A Matter of Time
Warren Smith / Composers Workshop Ensemble – Cricket Song Poem
Infinite Sound – Spanish Tale
Babatunde Olatunji – Uhura
Infinite Sound – The Ocean Moves Primitively

Done Live, enjoy it from here!!!!

Part 3 “Sound” Will be up next week prob done by Monohub

Well, Well, Well…

Blackclassical Blog is a year old on Friday so I thought id do something special to celebrate the fact that 1. I have had enough patience to keep it up-to-date and 2. well just because.

Me and Monohub have put together a larger than normal mix and its split in two parts but both will run seamlessly in a iPod or similar.

I would like to thanks all of the following:
El Reza, Monohub, Bacoso, Katonah, ElGooja, Wara Katsu + Tenacious Prayer: Diggin’ in Far East Boys, Arkadin, Simon666, Ish, Quimsy, Fslmy, Cheeba, Vesper, Jazz-Nekko, Alanmck, Killer Groove, SUN-Dayo Adewuyi, Quincy Essential Music Boys, Matthew, Kelly Haigh, Northern Comfort: RobD + Sad Eagle, Taro Nombre, Miles, Scrimshire, Scaloni, Picko-d, Dooks13, Orsi, Mr. Beatnick, the Real Semtek, Cubikmusic, Laid back Radio, Justlikemusic, Pael Black, Soul Identity, Future Ancient, Kev Mar, Liamski, DobieMPC, Nutriot, Weegee, Mofosnot, Big Poppa Love, Wall of Sound, Igor, Fat Toro, Tetsuo, Emile, Benny Kirk, Beane the Noodler, Red Rack’em, Sid Ford, amblito, Appyammer Al, Modal Bailey, Mike Mad Mongo, mateito, playjazzloud Jules, Onurengin, Isabelle, bowlerpaul, Alan ‘Chuki’ Brown, Paul Riley, SweetL80, gRaf, benny blanco, Colin Curtis, Hewan Clarke, Adrian Gibson, Pemon Rami… and more to be filled in as I remember you

Thanks for listening and all the support, much appreciated!!!

Donald Alexander Strachan: Song of Searching
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble: Black Beauty
Azar Lawrence: Beautiful and Omnipresent Love
Sun Ra: When There is No Sun
Amiri Baraka: Chant/It’s Nation Time
Pharoah Sanders: Red, Black & Green
Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness
Ornette Coleman: Trouble in the East pt 1
Pharoah Sanders: Creator Has a Master Plan
Ornette Coleman: Trouble in the East
Michael White: Preytude
Marion Brown: Karintha (Poem from Cane)
Black Artist’s Group: Sweet Street Song
Alice Coltrane: Galaxy Around Satchidananda
Sun Ra: Soul Vibrations of Man, When There Is No Sun
Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band: Journey To Bliss Part 3
Alice Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Albert Ayler: Change Has Come
Marion Brown: Karintha Part II
Pharoah Sanders: To John
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Pt. 1 – Acknowledgment
Bob Thiele Emergency: A Love Supreme
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Pt. 4 – Psalm
Roach Om: A Poem for a Lost Soul
John Tchichai: Afrodisiaca
Last Poets: Invocation
Pheeroan Ak Laff: Michelle Del
Marion Brown: Flute Song
The Lightmen: Free As You Wanna Be
Joe McPhee: Scorpio’s Dance
Hannibal: Sunrise Forest
Hamiet Bluiett: Ayana Nneke
Sonny Murray: Suns of Africa (Pt II)
Khan Jamal: Pure Energy
Look At Teyonda: William Norwood

The Coming Of Gwilu: Eddie Gale

Song of Will: Eddie Gale

Understanding: Eddie Gale

Fulton Street: Eddie Gale

Walk with Thee: Eddie Gale

The Gleeker: Eddie Gale

Look At Teyonda: Eddie Gale

The Rain: Eddie Gale

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Mixed By Monohub/Blackclassical, November 2009
Cover Artwork Pic by: @futureancient [Follow on Twitter]
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Used with Kind Permission, Cheers Matt!
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In RESPECTFUL dedication to Stuart Baker & Gilles Peterson’s: Freedom, Rhythm and Sound BIBLE
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Thanks to all listeners over the past year
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Here you go, DOWNLOAD IT NOW

Done this mix of tunes ages ago and found it on a cdr last night… Back to back old school tunes influenced by what colin curtis/hewan clark did at berlin manchester back in the 80’s:

Lani Hall – Corrida de Jongada
Airto – Tombo in 7/4
Toshiyuki Honda – Vento Vigoroso
Raices – Parata Gua Gua/Bamboo
Terumasa Hino – Samba de la Cruz
Hadley Caliman – The Latin Thing
Alive – Skindo Le Le
Patsy Gallant – Te Caliente
Jeff Lorber – Galaxian intro
Lee Evans – Cinnamon And Clove
Sue Rainey/Bob Florence Trio – Cinnamon And Clove
Janet Lawson – Dindi
Robin Jones 7 – Atlas
Tania Maria – Ya Tra Ta
Chick Corea – Central Park

Download it Here

Leon Thomas: Gypsy Queen
Leon Thomas: Shape your Mind to Die
Nat Adderley Sextet/Rick Holmes: In The Beginning
Nathan Davis: Makatuka
Woody Shaw: Opec/Isabel, the Liberator
Mal Waldron: Portrait of a Young Woman
Phil Ranelin: For the Children
Paris Smith: Thought Seeds
Polytechnic High School Choir/Roach Om: Unknown
Nat Adderley: Eternal Walk
Oneness of JuJu: Incognito

BY GILLES PETERSON AND STUART BAKER of Soul Jazz Records is one bad muther of a book…

This blog pretty much sums up about 60% of it, the other 40 is now being searched on a well known swap and exchange site…

Here’s a write up from SoulJazz:

Soul Jazz Records are proud to present this amazing collection of sleeves from the deepest, deepest jazz music ever – compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records).

This is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz music between 1965-83. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s loom large as self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to jazz artists finding new paths – both musical and economic.

Years before the D-I-Y cultural revolution of punk, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others ‘took control’ of their own work by recording, releasing and distributing their own music themselves.

The record sleeves of this era are as iconic and historically unique as the music itself and a striking reflection of the time; pre-desktop publishing, pre-internet these small-run (sometimes as low as 500 copies), self-made sleeves are graphically bold and radical.

‘Freedom, Rhythm and Sound’ is the first ever collection of this fascinating goldmine of album art, which represents the first wave of inspired independent production within popular music.

‘Freedom, Rhythm and Sound’ includes a large introduction contextualising the music and artwork as well as features on many of the people involved. Alongside the musicians mentioned above these include Rashied Ali, Steve Reid, Mary Lou Williams, Horace Tapscott, Lloyd McNeil, Tribe, The Last Poets, The Pharoahs, Philip Cohran, Black Artists Group and many others.

If that aint convinced you to fork out the measly sum of £20 errr sorry £16.99 then here’s some more gentle persuasion from:
TheGuardian
and
The Independent

Swing yourself over here and snag yourself a copy… If you love Jazz then you’ll love this book… Alternatively ask santa to bring you one?!? I personally couldn’t wait that long tho…

Major Props out to Stuart Baker and Gilles Peterson from blackC!

My brother/Sensei from Japan delivers a serious SERIOUS TOP DRAW mix over at his blog.
Go get it…. DAMN FINE STUFF, DONT SLEEP

Unknown Points pt.1
Aki Takase / I Hear Your Music
George Otsuka / Sea Breeze
Tatsuya Takahashi 3 × Takeshi Inomata 3 / Impression
Helen Merrill / Maiden Voyage
Mitsuaki Katayama / Unknown Point
Eiji Nakayama / Cumorah
Koichi Matsukaze / Easy Going
Kazumi Watanabe / Infinite
Masabumi Kikuchi / Dancing Mist with Joe Henderson
Kiyoshi Sugimoto / Long Neal

Good to hear Helen Merrill again…

Thanks teacher! Lovely way to cure the hangover and start the weekend…

This is a re-up [;)] of an oldie but goodie from last year sometime. Originally done for the elreza blog about 12 months or more or so ago. The backbone of this mix is built around Melvin Stewart’s narration [written by Lonne Elder with some help from the genious Langston Hughes] offa Mingus Scenes in the City… and its good if you aint heard it… but i guess i would say that eh?!?

1. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra Stars and Rockets
Chariots of the Gods OST

2. The London Jazz Four Things We Said Today
Take a new look at the Beatles

3. Charles Mingus Scenes In The City [PART ONE]
A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry

4. Michel LeGrande Southern Roots
Le Jazz Grande

5. Scenes In The City [PART TWO]

6. Jayne Cortez How Long Has Trane Been Gone
Celebrations And Solitudes

7. The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe
Coltrane A Spirit Speaks

8. Scenes In The City [PART THREE]

9. Jayne Cortez Homicide
Celebrations And Solitudes

10. Buddy Rich Channel One Suite [EDIT]

11. Music Inc. Ruthie’s Heart
And Big Band

12. Scenes In The City [PART FOUR]

13. The Piano Choir Effi
Handscapes

14. Fred Kaz Ameer
Eastern Exposure

15. Music Inc. On the Nile
And Big Band

16. Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
Freedom Day We Insist!

17. Scenes In The City [PART FIVE]

It’s JAZZZZZZZZZZZZZ