Posted on March 11th, 2010 by missfrolab. Categories: Art, History, LA, Music.
LA – be sure to check this out!
The William Grant Still Arts Center Presents:
The High Priest of Bop: The Jazz Odyssey of Thelonious Monk The Collections of historian Alden Kimbrough and curated items
March 13 – June 26, 2010
Tuesdays – Saturdays 12n-5pm
Opening reception Saturday March 13, 2010 3-6pm
Featuring The Marcus L. Miller Trio and a Debut Poem by Kamau Daood
Curator’s Walk through: Saturday March 27, 2010 2-4 pm
Panel: “Discussions on the Impact of Monk and Contemporary Music”
Charles Owens, Phil Wright, Buddy Collette
Moderated by Steven Buchanan
April 10, 2010 2-4 pm
Film Screening: “Thelonious Monk, American Composer”
“Straight No Chaser”
April 21, 2010 6-8:30 pm
The William Grant Still Arts Center
(a facility of the city of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2520 S. Westview St.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90016
323-734-1165
Tonight at 1am Sucio Smash will be celebrating 7 years of the Squeeze Radio show. For those who don’t know Sucio has been holding it down since Bobbito left at the beginning of the millennium and handed him the legendary slot. Tonight producers will be playing beats for all MCs to get busy live on the air.
You can listen live on 89.9FM in NYC or www.squeezeradio.com Also you can watch the live stream at www.dabeatminerz.com starting at 1am est
Jill Scott premiered a new song, “Hear My Call”, at the recent 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards. She has teamed up with the NAACP to offer an exclusive download of the live performance for just 99¢, with all proceeds going to the NAACP for Haiti Fund.
In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Coleman and B+ were invited to New Orleans to screen Brasilintime and to make photos by the folks from Common Ground. Documenting the damages and the obstacles people were faced with to rebuild what was lost. In five days they had made enough images to have a benefit show at Self Help Graphics in LA.
Three years later on Halloween Weekend of 2009, VTech invited Mochilla back to New Orleans again – to attend the Voodoo Festival and to meet with Jay Electronica – New Orleans favorite representative – well, besides the Saints!
This video was shot that weekend. Though Jay proved to be quite elusive during our stay, we managed to get him over to his beloved Magnolia Projects in the Third Ward. His memories of growing up there and what it means to be there now stand as a striking reminder to all those of us lucky enough to escape these kinds of unnatural disasters.
It has taken us a second to bring you this video but the events that have occurred over the past few weeks mean that the message hasn’t lost any of its potency.
#3 of the Beat Konducta monthly series is here! Madlib Medicine Show No. 3: BEAT KONDUCTA IN AFRICA
3 Preview tracks:
Madlib Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa will be released March 23 as the third installment of the producer’s one-release-a-month music series for 2010. Beat Konducta in Africa will be released as CD, 2/LP, limited 3/LP deluxe, and digitally.
3LP DELUXE Limited edition, 3 disc, 43-track version. The album covers are individually silk screened and numbered by Hit+Run in variations of black, gold, and red. 1250 of this edition will be made:
Beat Konducta in Africa is an instrumental hip-hop album produced & mixed with Madlib, featuring J. Rocc. This album bases itself on the obscure vinyl gems from the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements of African countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Ivory Coast.
Madlib’s Beat Konducta instrumental series – created from Madlib’s raw beat tapes – began in 2006 with Movie Scenes, an imaginary movie & TV soundtrack with the feel of Blaxpoitation soul, afro-psychedelia and moody progressive rock. Beat Konducta in India(Vol. 3-4) and A Tribute to J Dilla (Vol. 5-6) followed in 2007 and 2009.
Shine Travis and Holley Monelle of “CDR: Crack Distributors Radio” spoke to Chace Infinite about his group with super producer DJ Khalil; “Self Scientific”, his mixtape “I Would Have Killed This”, and his Chace Infinite x GoodWoodNYC AFRICA Collab pieces (Shown below on Cognito & Planet Asia)-
This past thursday the only dj with the 24hr Karate School project (Sucio Smash), let loose another joint via his radio show Squeeze Radio. First he hit us up with Prowler 2 now is time for the long awaited Taxi feat Mos Def.
Make sure to listen to the show via www.squeezeradio.com every thursday night from 1-5am NYC time. This coming thursday Sucio celebrates 7 years on the air holding it down after Bobbito’s retirement with about 25 MCs showing up and some big name producers providing the beats.
DJ Jamad on DJ Jamad: Afromentals “Fro Powah Hour” Listen Now
Superbizzee on Jill Scott’s “Hear My Call” – Downloads Benefit Haiti!
H8TR on Countdown to Return of the Ankh
Vonmiwi on LA Exhibition: The High Priest of Bop: The Jazz Odyssey of Thelonious Monk
