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Table of contents : • A WORLD OF DISCOVERIES REVIEWED BY DOMINIC VALVONA Reuniting for a second explosive dynamic album of electrified Vodou and Mizik Rasin, the Haitian collective Chouk Bwa and the Belgian production duo The Angströmers once more propel ritual and ceremony into an otherworldly futuristic setting. Originally crossing paths back in 2016, formulating a project performance two years later followed by the release of the partnership’s inaugural album, Vodou Alé, in 2020, this Euro-Haitian combination was interrupted by the Covid pandemic. Unable to meet in the flesh, as it were, for two and a half years they still managed to release a string of 12” EPs; the bridge to what would be that eventual reunion in the May of 2022 and an intensive workout tour of Europe. This enabled them to record their second album together, Somanti, in a Brussels studio; the culmination of tour performances and interactions, quickly recorded in just one day, such was the energy. Framed as a more “mature” record, and different in focus to Vodou Alé, there’s now an emphasis on the ritual, ceremonial aspects of this African exported religion, spiritualism and rites, and the • “A chic spy thriller” of postwar Berlin—the head in a thrilling pristine series escape the identifiable author accomplish the Critic Troy Novels (TheNew Royalty Times Complete Review).
Contents
Acknowledgment
Introductory Notes
Part 1
Songs of the Unsung: The Darby Hicks History of Jazz
“All the Things You Could Be by Now”: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz
Experimental Music in Black and White: The AACM in New York, 1970–1985
When Malindy Sings: A Meditation on Black Women’s Vocality
Hipsters, Bluebloods, Rebels, and Hooligans: The Cultural Politics of the Newport Jazz Festival, 1954–1960
Mainstreaming Monk: The Ellington Album
The Man
Part 2
The Real Ambassadors
Artistic Othering in Black Diaspora Musics: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics
Notes on Jazz in Senegal
Revisiting Romare Bearden’s Art of Improvisation
Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Swing
Checking Our Balances: Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop
Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying It with Music
“How You Sound??”: Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz
The Literary Ellington
“Always New and Centuries Old”: Jazz, Poetry, and Tradition as Creative Adaptation
A Space We’re All Immigrants From: Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook
Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation
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