- Chick Corea died recently. He’s not someone who sang to me, so I won’t remember him there, but his playing alongside Keith Jarrett in Miles’ early ’70s electric groups is still killer with him on the electric piano and Jarrett on the organ. His science is Morton Subotnick, Henry Cowell shit. RIP.
- This is the last time I’ll mention this film, but yea it was pretty disheartening to Eddie Gale, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Watts Prophets all used in JATBM. I think criticisms of jazz snobbery or gatekeeping in this instance are unfounded. Because when those of us try to share this music online, it’s usually crickets. And when we try to share the history of Eddie Gale coming up through the legend Kenny Dorham and his following space chords and the teachings of the master Sun Ra in his Arkestra, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s circular breathing, and the invisible whip, and the tone connecting us to the ancestors, no one wants to listen to that. But now their sounds are used as backdrop to a film which used revolution as representation. And for those of us who on Youtube (yes some of us still do), we will have to be saturated with that genesis of discovery.
- Starting a listening project where I’m going through the entirety of the Strata-East discography. I’m so excited. If anyone reading this wants to join, let me know.
- I do think it’s interesting how people who claim to be marxists have no interest in actually examining their material conditions dialectically. But this is especially the case when it comes to non-black latinx types, mainly chicanos. They refuse to recognize that the material conditions have changed and that it’s no longer a matter of ‘chicano/indigenous or you’ve let the colonizer win.’ It was never a matter of that in my view, but I wasn’t around in the ’60s so perhaps that myth had a stronger foothold then. More people are recognizing the ways that the racialization of the Mexican identity is fraught with antagonistic contradictions, and is imploding upon itself in its supposed difference/sameness from whiteness/white supremacy/colonization.
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