#melvingibbs

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2 months ago

Man Dance YouTube video by Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society - Topic

Happy Birthday to #jazz & #freejazzfunk drummer #RonaldShannonJackson 🎂

Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society: "Man Dance" (Mandance, 1982)

(Saw him in college on tour after this Lp came out; awesome show 🥁)

#jazzsky #freefunk #HappyBirthdayRonaldShannonJackson #VernonReid #MelvinGibbs

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@dbcurren.bsky.social

2 months ago

Amasia, Anamibia, Aestheticism, Ambition: Melvin Gibbs in the 21st Century - JazzTimes Since his start in 1980 within the radically askew rhythm stick sound of Defunkt, bassist-composer Melvin Gibbs has led a jazz-punk-funk life, with dub’s noir … Read More "Amasia, Anamibia, Aesthetici...

“I used to be a musical snob and thought that people who were sampling were cheating, but reading #Derrida made me realize that sampling is just a way of manipulating culture. That’s when I embraced it all.” #MelvinGibbs #bassists #music #MusicSky #jazz #JazzSky
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@dbcurren.bsky.social

2 months ago

Twenty more of twenty-twenty-five Some LPs I regretted leaving off my year-end lists. Plus: RIP Joe Ely

“If it makes you think of electric #Miles, that’s no coincidence—that’s #PeteCosey on #guitar, for instance, recorded long ago, on several tracks” open.substack.com/pub/carlwils... #MelvinGibbs #music #MusicSky

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The Quietus

@thequietus.com

4 months ago

Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 album cover. Close up of an electric blue undersea creature, perhaps a crab of some sort.

'Working off of Bitches Brew, Gibbs uses the insular creative framework that Miles and producer Teo Macero mastered in the 70s as a jumping-off point for an entirely different planet of strange'

#MelvinGibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 is a Quietus album of the Month for October

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cb ⿻

@lovevolv.bsky.social

4 months ago

#josephbowie #arrivalday #sunradio mid-6am cest / 6p-mid eastern livestream lora.ch broadcast 97.5fm zürich #dangelo #memorial #fela #gregtate #burntsugarband #defunkt #humanartsensemble #melvingibbs #newrelease #terryriley #aleph #sunra #lovolution #rootfusion

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The Quietus

@thequietus.com

4 months ago

Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 album cover. Close up of some sort of strange undersea creature in silvery blue, with silver eyes on stalks (?)

When visual artist Arthur Jafa suggested Melvin Gibbs assemble a band to riff off Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, it could easily have turned into an exercise in nostalgia. But Gibbs had other ideas...

#MelvinGibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

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