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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 4 | History Defined

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Bangkok Post

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

The Guardian - UK

Pharoah Sanders, legendary jazz musician, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

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Pharoah Sanders, giant of spirit-driven jazz, dies at 81

Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.

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Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

The Guardian - UK

Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images were predicted by pop music

The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first

The Guardian - US

Victor Schonfield obituary

Other lives: Jazz and avant-garde music enthusiast who set up a charity to promote his favourite kind of music

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Cypress Hill celebrates 4/20 with a career-spanning documentary. And weed. Lots of weed

LOS ANGELES — Though Estevan Oriol has never been a member, for most of Cypress Hill's 30-plus years as a group the photographer and filmmaker traveled with them. If co-founder B-Real did an onstage hit from their bong Excalibur, Oriol absorbed the cloud of secondhand smoke as his video camera…

Los Angeles Times

Sun Ra Arkestra returns soon in Chicago, a legacy kept alive by a 97-year-old bandmate. ‘His music needs to be heard’

CHICAGO — Patrons of South Side jazz clubs in the 1950s might have noticed something a bit different about pianist Sun Ra’s big band — slowly at first, then all at once. Their sounds became more far-out, the synthy buzz of claviolines and Wurlitzers replacing Ra’s usual uprights. Bit by…

Chicago Tribune

60 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles

Something old, something new, but all these albums deliver great music alongside excellent production.

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