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I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove

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Happy Talk (for Nancy Wilson)

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The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process

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She Plays Like A Girl: Why We Love Patrice Rushen

Black Music Month Day #5 Dear Patrice Rushen:  We’ve met a couple of times, once at an Indiana University symposium and another at Jazz at Lincoln Center where you were touring with Donald Harrison’s band.  That’s okay. You may not remember me, but we actually go way back. I first learned about...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 5, 2011
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Tryin’ To Git Over: Curtis Mayfield’s Cinematic Muse

Black Music Month Day # 4 When the film Superfly appeared in 1972, cinematic representations of African American men fit into a rather narrow mold.  The image of actor Sidney Poitier had loomed large since the 1950s.  Suave, worldly, clean-cut, and reared in the Bahamas, this charmer had embossed his virtuous...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 4, 2011
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Pure Gold: Though We’re Tried in the Fi-yuh

Black Music Month Day #2: Let’s give the first ladies of gospel genius, The Clark Sisters, some love. From 1997, this is actually a remix of one of Twinkie’s chestnuts from back in the day.  The form is tricky—two long sections that sound like two separate verses (Twinkie was always musically...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 2, 2011
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Brotherly Love and Philly Grooves: The Supa Lowery Brothers Flow Way Out West

Things to see, hear, and read in ’11, Part 2 In the lobby of Shutters, a hotel on the beach in Santa Monica, I walked passed an empty drum set and grand piano and entered the dining room without too much of a second thought.  Someone had recommended this spot to enjoy a special meal […]

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 16, 2011
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Funk, Fire, and the Afro-Future”: Music in 1970s Chicago

Earth Wind and Fire’s 1981 hit, “Let’s Groove,” kicks off with a shuffled hi-hat rhythm penetrated by deep, tight bass drum kicks. In the lower registers, vocals passing through a vocoder synthesizer conflate the line between words and bass, mouthing a thick and fuzzy “Down…boogie down…down...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 14, 2010
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Get on the Good Foot – James Brown “The Godfather of Soul”

James Brown – Good Foot/ S Power/ Make It Funky (ST 1973) Recognized as the “Godfather of Soul”, renowned artist James Brown was easily one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music.  With his ear-piercing cries and hollers as well as the accompaniment of his flawless,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  October 12, 2009
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