Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) Dead at 91
This is huge. Legendary American jazz pianist and composer, Dave Brubeck, has passed away. Brubeck died of heart failure on December 5, 2012, in Norwalk, Connecticut, a day before his 92nd birthday. Brubeck was on his way to a cardiology appointment, accompanied by his son, Darius. The jazz great wrote numerous jazz standards, which included In Your […]
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Soundsystem: Black Radio (Pete Rock Remix) / Robert Glasper Experiment feat. Yasiin Bey
Black Radio the collaborative track by Robert Glasper Experiment and Yasiin Bey gets remixed by producer, Pete Rock. Robert Glasper Experiment is jazz pianist Robert Glasper’s hip-hop oriented project. Below are some featured cuts and remixes from Black Radio Recovered – The Remix EP of their original title album Black Radio. –@teemunny MORE:
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BadBadNotGood at The Mint LA / Review
This past Tuesday, fresh off of backing up crooner Frank Ocean at the biggest festival of the year (last weekend), the Canadian jazz trio, BadBadNotGood, played their first show in Los Angeles at The Mint, a legendary venue for musicians and music lovers. The band played two killer sets with a 45 minute interlude. An intimate audience of […]
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BBNG02 / Bad Bad Not Good (Download Full Release)
Those hip hop-covering jazz wunderkinds from Toronto, Bad Bad Not Good, have released their second album filled with their renditions. It is an impressive collection of covers and original material. Their covers of James Blake‘s Limit To Your Love, Earl Sweatshirt and Kanye‘s Flashing Lights are personal favorites. The cover of UK’s My Bloody Valentine‘s You […]
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Re:Generation Music Project 2012 (documentary) Review
REVIEW: The documentary, and I hesitate to call it a documentary, Re:Generation Music Project (2012) directed by Amir Bar-Lev, attempts to validate the contemporary DJ-slash-producer as true-blue musicians. Although the film is well-produced, the commercialized sheen takes away from the aura of the creative process. It doesn’t properly showcase the interplay of the DJs and musicians and, […]
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RE:GENERATION / A La Modeliste / Mark Ronson, Erykah Badu & Co.
Produced by Mark Ronson, A La Modeliste is a jazz track for RE:GENERATION that features
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Etta James 1938-2012
This is a big one. The Matriarch of Rhythm and Blues, original diva, Etta James has passed away this Friday morning of complications from leukemia at a hospital in Riverside, California. Her death was five days before her 74th birthday. James’ ranging style spanned a variety of musical genres. She could sing the blues, wail […]
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SHE (Tyler The Creator / Frank Ocean) / Bad Bad Not Good
Hip-hop heads and Toronto musical savants, Bad Bad Not Good, are back with another Wolf Gang jazz cover; this time it’s She by Tyler and Frank. Always goddamn righteous; peanut butter and jelly. Stream their live set recorded at The Red Light on September 2011, HERE. Or DOWNLOAD the muthafucka. -Teemunny
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Odd Future Sessions / BBNG x Tyler
You hardly get the chance to see rappers mingle with musicians unless they’re on Jimmy Fallon or MTV Unplugged (Is that still going on?). However, OFWGKTA doesn’t need a special televised event to have a jam session. Check out these two videos as Tyler, The Creator pays a visit to Canada and collaborates with the Toronto-based jazz trio, Bad Bad Not Good. Pure, […]
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Camel / BAD BAD NOT GOOD (Flying Lotus cover)
Bad Bad Not Good aka The Odd Trio is back at it again. This time, the talented Toronto trio drops an experimental cover of Flying Lotus‘ Camel. The Odd Trio’s sound, talent and expertise lends perfectly to FlyLo’s avant-garde sonic rays. via LA Weekly
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We Come Together / Goldfish
Here is a fun retro-gamer music video rendition of the track, We Come Together, from the jazzy electronic dance duo, Goldfish. The pair, Dominic Peters and David Poole, hail from Capetown, South Africa. The song features catchy vocals by Sakhile Moleshe. The video was made by a fleet of pixel artists from all over the […]
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Improv Jazz Hip Hop Covers / BAD BAD NOT GOOD
Matt Tavares (piano), Alex Sowinski (drums) and Chester Hansen (bass) make up the improvisational free jazz trio,
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