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(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café

Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance

The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance

Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia

The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered

The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview

Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art

I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove

The #BLACKBOYJOY of Smino

Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!

Happy Holidays from MusiQology!

Happy Talk (for Nancy Wilson)

Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love for Me” is Assertive Artistry (and a Fitting Tribute to Nancy Wilson)

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

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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 1

“Changing the game,” exclaimed the press photographer to one of the fans at Robert Glasper’s recent standing-room-only appearance at World Café Live, Philadelphia.   “Yeah, no doubt,” the middle-aged man shot back in agreement.  The room was filled with an interracial, inter-generational...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 4, 2012
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What Are You Waiting For? Colored Waiting Room Single Drops Friday!

It’s here!  This week on Friday, January 20 we will release the first single from the CD The Colored Waiting Room!  This event will be a free download for a limited time only.  Let’s call it Free Follow Friday. The song is an arrangement of Oliver Nelson’s classic piece “Stolen Moments.” ...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 17, 2012
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My LA Times: Pariah, The Front Page and Jason Moran

Landing in JFK and transitioning after a trip to Los Angeles, the land of big dreams and steady paradise, requires a little re-orientation.  A twenty-degree shift in temperature measured both in Fahrenheit and attitude—is always an unkind jolt.  But after a little pushing and shoving at baggage claim,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 19, 2011
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The Colored Waiting Room—Presents Dr. Guy’s MusiQology

The following comprises an overview about my new album, The Colored Waiting Room, which will be released next month. In the coming weeks, we’ll release a series of film vignettes about the project and some of the musicians and production crew involved in the project on various social media platforms...

By Dr. Guthrie /  November 29, 2011
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Breeze/Madness/Time: Notes on the Musical Semiotics of Summer

Black Music Month Day #29 Note: This is my final 2011 Black Music Month post.  Tomorrow, I will publish an index to the entire series. I hope you have enjoyed the writing and the music. Happy Summer!–GR Although the official calendar doesn’t agree, for most of us, July is the start of summer....

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 29, 2011
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Live!: The Apollo Theater and the Black Star System

Black Music Month, Day #27 Before MTV videos, You Tube, digital downloads, nickelodeons, and television variety shows, fans of American popular music had to go to live music venues to enjoy their favorite artists.  From the stages of these spaces, both large and small, audiences experienced the larger-than-life...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 27, 2011
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Mental Health and Jazz Musicians: Looking for Bud Powell

Black Music Month, Day #26 Two ideas bubble to the surface in all accounts of bebop musician Bud Powell (1924-1966).  The first thread is his supreme musical prowess.  The reputation that he built rests chiefly on his ability solo in the idiom, although he also composed memorable original works known...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 26, 2011
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Take Six Takes House: Sounding History, Channeling the Ancestors

Black Music Month Day #25–In Memory of Michael Jackson I was thinking about writing something new about Michael Jackson for Day #25 of my black music month series.  It seemed only appropriate to commit some new words to paper to mark the occasion of him being gone for two years.  But during the virtuoso...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 25, 2011
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Jazz On My Mind @ The Clifford Brown Jazz Fest

The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival in Wilmington, Delaware is one of the largest free festivals of its kind on the east coast.  Lineups always impress: the musicians play leisurely sets, and many prepare special shows–not just blowing standards–as they tour their latest efforts.  Wilmington...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 24, 2011
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A Song From a Father: Little London’s Lullaby

Black Music Month, Day #19 As a young father raising three active kids clustered close in age, one needed survival techniques.  Life was messy, challenging, and rewarding–all that good stuff.  But I knew where to get help, where I always got it: music.  I wrote a song or a chant for every kid occasion:...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 19, 2011
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