breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
WE start the week with African beats from Babatunde Olatunji, Art Blakey and Doudou N'diaye Rose. Then we offer new music from Gil Scott-Heron and Sade. And we close out with gorgeous work from Maysa Leak covering standards.
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Drums of Passion, The African Beat and Djabote are three major indexes in the history of recorded African beats.
It's Getting Hot In Here (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Growing up as a child in East Oakland, CA, poverty and pollution were the backdrops of my day-to-day life. A major freeway poured exhaust fumes onto my elementary school grounds, and the creek in my backyard ran thick with waste. We were just kids, chasing tadpoles despite the stench. But I grew up [...]
Career Hub (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
Yesterday is history ~ tomorrow a mystery ~ today is a gift ~ that's why we call it the present. ~ Babatunde Olatunji My client and I were discussing gifts...the kind that you can't buy, you can't re-gift and you...
Comments for jakejacobsen (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji Keep it up!
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
When King Sunny Ade's African Beats ambled one by one onto the 9:30 club stage Friday night, it was no surprise that the first six musicians were percussionists, but it was a surprise that there was just one guitarist. Ade, who usually plays lead guitar, is recovering from a shoulder injury, so t...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Babatunde Olatunji – Drums of Passion (Legacy Edition) Columbia/Legacy has just released a glorious two-disc edition of Babatunde Olatunji’s 1959 masterwork, Drums of Passion, one of the most profoundly influential records ever. Before Passion there was no such thing as “world” music, just the industry of “exotica” records from guys like Les Baxter and Martin Denny,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue / Legacy Edition Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain / Legacy Edition The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out / Legacy Edition...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
From the Department of "Everyone Likes Free Stuff": The Web site HDtracks, which specializes in high-resolution music downloading, is offering a sampler album called Jazz and Blues Experience as a free download. The sampler features material from the Palmetto, Koch, Analogue, Light Without Heat, and C...
SoundRoots (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Alternating between new releases and older global music during the first hour of the show; then nothing but a heap of newness. Some great releases emerging this spring/summer -- watch this space for more reviews soon. ================== Note: With our PodOmatic bandwidth still maxed out, the audio archive is temporarily hosted with imeem. If you prefer to download rather than stream the show, make...
Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 05/02/2009
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2009
The legend from Nigeria. This is one of my favorite recordings and although I like the later recordings, the 1959 version stands above the rest.
Touched by an Angel (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” Denis Waitley I want you to read this and know that I have moved on a long time ago. I don’t hate you. I am not angry at you. Maybe you still are [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
BROCKTON - The occasion had all you would expect to find at African Festival and Marketplace: traditional foods, jewelry and trinkets, oils and clothing. And in the backdrop, the rhythm of African drumming, a foundation of the culture, pounded out for the Brockton community.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, tabla master Zakie Hussain and other eminent percussionists who comprise this time-honored outfit continue with their navigations of lifea€(TM)s heartbeat. This studio session commemorates the fifteenth-anniversary of the influential Planet Drum (Rykodisc, 1991). Pristinely recorded, the artists use some of the latest and greatest studio processing techniques...
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