Active Listening
Marcus J. MooreA journey through the archives of experimental sound, with a deep appreciation for landmark figures and music from years gone by.
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Minnie Riperton’s Secret Symphony
Photo scan courtesy of Junius Paul
There are albums that announce themselves forcefully, demanding to be understood in real time. Then there are records like Come to My Garden, Minnie Riperton’s breathtaking 1970 debut, which seem to hover...
Herbie Hancock's Quiet Revolution
By the time Sunlight arrived in June 1978, Herbie Hancock was already living several musical lives at once. There was the acoustic purist who had returned to the piano with V.S.O.P., a live album that revisited the elegance and elasticity o...
Gravity and Grace: The Spiritual Sound of Buster Williams
Bassists hold a special kind of gravity, an unseen, if not underappreciated role as the quiet force of the band. They hold the music upright while everything dances above it.
In jazz, especially, one can feel that gravity. You hear it, sur...
The Force of Nature Named Busta Rhymes
Before Busta Rhymes ever released a solo album, he was inevitable — an unlikely presence in a crowded landscape of singular rap personalities, with a gravitational pull that reshifted the rules of space, breath and tempo. He wasn’t just rap...
Roy Brooks and the Sound of Unpolished Truth
In the lexicon of jazz drumming, there’s a handful of names that rise from the page right away — Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams — standard-bearers who defined how generations heard time and swing. But buried in the inters...
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