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doug carn -- peace

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Jazz Is Dead 5 - Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge enlist Doug Carn for the newest entry in their series of collaborations with living legends

Doug's newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it within the context of a musical culture that has always taken cues from his 70s classics. There's no mistaking the musical mind that created legendary albums like Infant Eyes and Adam's Apple, but the encounter of that with the distinctive jazz-hip hop-funk-noir that is the Younge/Muhammad/JID trademark creates something worthy of comparison to Carn's past work but which could only have been made right now. One can detect nods to musical motifs by Carn's jazz peers that have served as frequent sample fodder, but his compositional and improvisational integrity remain indisputable throughout.

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Ad for The East, Brooklyn, NY, 1972, promoting shows by Leon Thomas, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra and Doug Carn!

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We are people, of the mighty mighty, Might mighty people of the sun, In our hearts lie, all the answers, From the truth you can’t run from

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Drummer Cindy Blackman inspired by her idol

Cindy Blackman had been playing drums for seven years when, at age 15, she first heard the phenomenal drumming of Tony Williams on a couple of Miles Davis albums recorded a decade earlier, when Williams himself was a teenager. The experience changed her life.

"I was just freaked out by Tony and loved him from that day forward," says Blackman, now 49, by phone from her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Several months later, Blackman attended a drum clinic given by Williams at a music store in Wethersfield, Conn. "I went and I was floored," she recalls. "That was the most incredible thing that I had ever seen in my entire life. I knew right away that was the direction I had to go for sound, for technique, for concept, for just general attitude behind the kit. I was so taken by everything that he played. He took questions, and I halfway raised my hand to ask a question, but no words came out. I couldn't even say anything to him."

The red-headed drummer later studied in Boston with Alan Dawson, who had earlier been Williams' mentor. "I wanted to study with Alan because his reputation as a teacher was legendary, but I also studied with Alan because I was chasing Tony's path." [Read More]

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The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-76 / Various Artists

Maiden Voyage / Kellee Patterson

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