Where Los Angeles June 2018

Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album In The Moment. Culled, cut, post-produced & re-composed by Makaya using recordings of free improvisation he collected over dozens of live sessions in Chicago, through incubation & experimentation In The Moment established a procedural blueprint that he has since been sharpening & developing.

Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - The World At Peace (1995) {Meta Digital Download, Bandcamp 16-44.1 rel 2018}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44kHz - Official Digital Download (bandcamp.com) -> 614 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 245 Mb | Cover | 5% repair rar
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Jazz / Progressive Jazz / World Music / Neo-Classical / Creative Music

An epic work that straddles the fields of jazz tone poetry and world music references, The World at Peace is encouraging proof that ambitious, non-commercial jazz projects still exist-and must exist. Recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles in June 1995, the project is the brainchild of 77-year-old saxophonist Yusef Lateef and percussionist Adam Rudolph, both of whom have experimented in the fertile ground common to jazz and non-western traditions. That duality is laid out early, between the adjacent pieces “Coltrane Remembered” and “Africa 35.” A dozen musicians filter in and out of the mix, there is a loose, rambling Mingus-y air to the occasion, and improvisation is an operative norm. It’s jazz, yet, as a package, it’s something else again, something from a dreamy netherworld where specifics are fuzzy and feelings count for a lot.

For years, Led Zeppelin fans complained that there was one missing item in the group's catalog: a good live album. It's not that there weren't live albums to be had. The Song Remains the Same, of course, was a soundtrack of a live performance, but it was a choppy, uneven performance, lacking the majesty of the group at its peak…

In June 2018, Edsel issued Brick – The Songs Of Ben Folds 1994–2012, a 13CD box set that takes a detailed look at the output of American singer-songwriter Ben Folds.

Who else could have written a country song about the Holocaust ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), or about a human being kept in a cage as part of a circus ("Wild Man from Borneo")? Outrageous and irreverent but nearly always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the 1970s and has been hailed the Frank Zappa of country music. The son of a University of Texas professor who raised his children on the family ranch, Rio Duckworth, he was born Richard F. Friedman. He studied psychology at Texas and founded his first band while there. However, King Arthur & the Carrots – a group that poked fun at surf music – recorded only one single in 1966. After graduation, Friedman served three years in the Peace Corps; he was stationed in Borneo, where he was an agricultural extension worker.