Sublime

the higher up the pole the monkey climbs, the more his ass shows.”

Because of my touring with D’Angelo, the Roots hadn’t had a chance to truly cash in on the neo-soul movement. We were Moses and the movement was the Promised Land: We had led people to it, helped organize it, ushered people through the first awkward phases, made sure that there was an audience that understood and appreciated the music. And yet we d

my 1975 album, Mellow Madness,

Coltrane’s musicianship and reputation grew stronger and led to his being invited, in the late 1940s, to become a member of traveling bands including those led by Joe Webb, King Kolax, and Eddie Vinson. All these men were accomplished musicians leading black bands that played across the Midwest and South to predominantly black audiences in mostly s

Cornel West came up with the idea of the jazz freedom fighter and defined jazz “not so much as a term for a musical art form but for a mode of being in the world, an improvisational mode of protean, fluid and flexible disposition toward reality suspicious of ‘either/or’ viewpoints.”