Cassius

This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was no political agenda behind the work, and that Dio's principal value to us is as a reliable copyist, who mediated the works of other, and better sources.

Incroyable. Rien d'autre. Incroyable ! Prodige dans son pays, la Suède, encore absolument inconnu en France et dans une grande partie de l’Europe, Cassius Lambert, 22 ans, bassiste compositeur, rejoint le Label Laborie Jazz en mars 2018. Un univers tout entier s’ouvre devant nous, immense, fort et tellement touchant. Une alchimie de tous les styles, de toutes les influences pour une signature unique. Les morceaux montrent l’approche sans compromis de la musique de Cassius, quelque chose qui lui semble vital dans la création. En mélangeant différentes textures musicales comme le jazz, la funk, le rock, le hip-hop ainsi que la musique classique minimaliste, il crée un son inventif et nouveau sur la scène de la musique contemporaine. « SYMMETRI », nouvel album à paraître le 21 septembre, âmes sensibles… c’est pour vous.

Although Muhammad Ali's decision to assume a new name has often been portrayed as a sudden transformation, Cassius Clay's conversion to Islam was a process, not an event. For many months he received guidance from Malcolm X, who had traveled from Harlem to Miami to be his mentor as he studied for his entry into the deeply divided and fratricidal Nation of Islam. The name he assumed over those now-forgotten months was Cassius X. This is the story of Cassius X over twelve months in Miami, a city that was changing faster than America itself, as he trains for the fight that will bring him global fame: his world heavyweight title fight against Sonny Liston in February 1964.

"If now the intelligent phenomenon Thundercat alias Stephen Bruner came from a small Swedish town instead of Los Angeles, he would be called Cassius Lambert alias Pelle Lindsjö. Cassius Lambert is bassist like Thundercat. The musical starting point is hip hop, funk and fusion jazz with many freedoms. The similarities are many. However, the most striking similarity is the ability to keep an eye on some complicated events where recognisability is allowed to prevail with the unknown. Cassius Lambert holds many balls in the air and also throws the juggler up into the air. It sounds wild in writing. It's also when listening."