IN a new fic I'm writing... Im sorry. Jazz is Dead.
Mainly before the story takes place, that being said... I need help.
How Did She Die?
Still birth. Her Parents still named her and celebrate her B-day.
Random childhood illness, before Danny was born.
Random Childhood accident. Shortly after Danny was Born.
Other Say in comments. If enough likes, I will add them to a new poll.
Voting ended onApr 22
Over all I still plan to have her Parents celebrate her birth or death day with a little mamorial.
Maybe going to her grave cleaning it up, and having a picnic while telling her everything that happened that year and leaving a little present or gift for her.
“Hey!”
The boy stops dead in his tracks when confronted. Taken aback at what he’s seeing, Jason doesn't move. Whoever this boy is, he is hugging his middle with a loose arm. His face is white as chalk; everything red seemed to have drained as his blood dripped onto the dirty ground. Something about him smells rotten, literally. All in all, if Jason had to compare the boy to someone in particular, he would pick their resident zombie: Solomon Grundy.
Hopefully that is just an exaggeration. Jason would always be glad to have less zombie people shambling around his territory if he could help it.
Instead of speaking, the boy slumps onto the ground, hopefully not dead dead to the world. However, that’s not what holds Jason’s attention. The boy had fallen unconscious because he’d been discarded. In his place, a red-headed teen slides into view and she is the one that addresses Jason.
“You are his biological brother, aren’t you?” she asks, her face desolate and soft. There’s something ephemeral about her too, under all the tear tracks and the sharps incisions left on the flesh of her torso. “Take care of him.”
Her stare goes to the boy. Something about her just breaks as she examines him.
“I’m- I’m so sorry I couldn’t protect you, Danny. I failed- I failed you as your sister- I’m so sorry-”
In the throes of her anguish, she vanishes.
Jason can only gape in consternation until he hears the boy whine pitifully from where he was dropped. Then, he’s a whirlwind of motion, in his quest to get the boy—Danny—to Leslie in time.
Jazz Is Dead JID022 - Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad shepherd a new album from Afrobeat legend Ebo Taylor, whose postponed 2024 American tour has now been rescheduled (as his "Americas Farewell" tour)
At 88 years of age, the Ghanian highlife and afrobeat pioneer Ebo Taylor traveled to the US for the very first time to perform at the now iconic Jazz Is Dead concert series, selling out venues across the country. It was during this time that Ebo recorded a psychedelic afrobeat album alongside Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad. This mind-blowing collaboration is one that could not have been anticipated by Ebo fans worldwide and will surely satisfy connoisseurs of classic West African funk.
The swirling horns and gritty guitars heard on Ebo Taylor JID022 are reminiscent of his seminal seventies recordings that made him one of Africa’s most prolific and revolutionary artists of all time. Recorded inside of Younge’s Linear Labs studio, this album captures polyrhythmic percussion and twangy, fuzzed out guitars that prove that rhythm is key. The ensemble of Ghanian background vocalists emanates a uniquely spiritual sound that takes the listener back to Ebo’s prime.
However, one of the most exhilarating components to this album is Ebo’s signature approach to vocal stylings. His heartfelt lyrics about love, peace and spirituality echo nearly a centuary of experience and wisdom. Songs such as “Beye Bu, Beye Ba” demonstrate how God provides for his people as songs like “Kusi Na Sibo” teach life lessons on gratitude. This is an afrobeat classic that stands as a true highlight in the canon of Ebo Taylor’s undeniable catalog and a crown jewel in the Jazz Is Dead library.
Ebo Taylor JID022 is set to be released just in time for Ebo’s highly anticipated live tour of The Americas presented by Jazz Is Dead. Ebo will be joined by the Ebo Taylor Family Band alongside his protégée and Ghanian legend Pat Thomas. Dates for this tour through The United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil can be found on Jazz Is Dead’s site, link below.
From the cuica-squeaking syncopations of samba-rhythmed “Os Ancestrais” to the late-night, jazz-inflected piano reveries of “Debaixo da Ponte, this latest release from Jazz is Dead highlights an undersung hero of Brazilian samba funk and jazz, the pianist Dom Salvador.
Dom Salvador’s career has wound through musical styles, scenes and continents. In the 1970s, with his band Abolição, he kicked off the Black Rio Movement, which melded American soul and Afro-Brazilian forms into a new kind of funk. Later, he moved to New York City, where he collaborated with jazz artists including Herbie Mann, Dom Um Romão, Lloyd McNeil, and Charlie Rouse, and for a brief period, served Harry Belafonte’s bandleader. For the last several decades, he has held down a residency at the River Café, playing piano jazz and standards in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
“Não Podermos O Amar Parar” (or “we can't stop loving him” in English) does an excellent job of marrying Dom Salvador’s silvery, classic jazz piano with the bump and sway of bossa nova. An undulating bass groove lifts the song from the bottom while airy flurries of choral singing loft it into the air. But the piano is the main character all the same, fluttering and cajoling, darting in and out of horn blurts to make it cool, cerebral case. “Debaixo” puts the piano even more firmly in the center, paring back accompaniments to a clack of percussion, an occasional burst of woodwind sound; it gives you a sense of what you might have heard at the River Café with Salvador in session.
Adrian Younge (of a Tribe Called Quest) and Ali Shaheed Muhammed (Wu-Tang Clan) founded Jazz is Dead to showcase performers frequently sampled by hip hop artists, and in the process have released excellent albums by Ebo Taylor, Roy Ayers and Tony Allen, among many others. The Dom Salvador album rescues a vital voice in jazz and Brazilian music from comfortable obscurity, playing for tourists mostly there to admire the view.
Jazz Is Dead Has A New Album With Drumming Legend Tony Allen
Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's Jazz Is Dead label is releasing a Tony Allen album. Allen, who passed in 2020, was the innovative drummer who helped Fela Kuti created the Afrobeat genre. Their work together added a new vocabulary to the world of rhythm. Younge and Muhammad were lucky enough to work with Allen on new music. Younge says,
"First of all, to be able to work with somebody that helped pioneer the sound of a new genre, a genre that is kind of sort of an international style of funk, which is Afrobeat; it's Black American music going back to it’s birthplace, Africa. Tony Allen represents that foundation. When I got the chance to work with this legend, I wanted to create an album that harkened back to the dawn of this music. This album focuses on early to mid-'70s African funk. I wanted to pull a lot of that out of Tony."
Allen was always musically adventurous and it went beyond the creation of Afrobeat. When his days of working with Fela ended he continued to collaborate with various musicians. He shared his musical instincts with French pop stars Sebastien Tellier and Charlotte Gainsbourg on their famous "La Ritournelle" single and 5:55 album. Damon Albarn created the bands Rocket Juice and the Moon and The Good, the Bad and the Queen with Allen. Techno pioneer Jeff Mills worked with Allen on the Tomorrow Comes The Harvest EP. Detroit rapper Danny Brown and London rapper Skepta collaborated with Allen on the posthumous album There Is No End.
The Jazz Is Dead album is another look inside Allen's vision of rhythm with Muhammad and Younge's energy in the studio. Tony Allen JID018 comes out on July 7th.
