Martin Luther King, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Underground Resistance – WTF is going on?
“Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.”
August 2014: Tracks of the month – soul and madness, reggae and bass
Soul and madness, reggae and bass: this pretty much sums up my favourite tracks this month.
Video: hip hop artists call for boycott of Israel
In response to Israel’s horrific assault on Gaza, an international hip hop collective has put together this track calling for a boycott of Israel.
His mother called him Charles: A tribute to Charlie Haden
‘I won’t lie, I was truly scared, but my fear was nothing compared what the liberation freedom fighters or the young Portuguese army recruits who refused to fight went through. I’ve thought about it a lot – would I do it again? I can honestly say yes.’
June 2014: Tracks of the month
One of the most profound statements on music I’ve ever heard or read was made by the saxophone player Charlie Parker, he said:
Horace Silver, 1928–2014
I was saddened to hear of the death of one of my favourite jazz pianists, Horace Silver.