Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
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Betty Carter Interlude/You’re Wonderful
Her roll call of jazz musicians who died in 1990
Every few months it’s necessary and romantic to binge-watch footage of Betty Carter live. With the bright hunter’s moon in taurus, and her sun there like mine, like Mingus’s, like Ellington’...
Monuments of Love
If death were forbidden to you would you find it a little more benevolent, would you tuck its lure in your mouth and let it puncture and serrate the gums, the flesh of that face hidden inside your face flush and bashful at the attentiveness...
Nearly Dead Objects for Spectacular Contemplation
Madonna
You cannot just send the demon possessed blond ambition on stage in a silicon diaper and fling her onto a conveyor belt that spins her around a cult-driven pagan chorus and no one’s microphone is on and then green lasers shoot out...
Jazz is not didactic/Reechantment
Valerie Wilmer’s Jazz People, the ricochet of Diddy’s evil, Belgian cameo.
(The full book is attached as a PDF behind the paywall for those who support the archive fever side of things here, thank you).
Home is my favorite protest song
The Frozen Lake
I’m in the Midwest, near the childhood home of David Foster Wallace, and I don’t abide the tribe of trigger-happy, trigger-warning people, so fragile their fragility tends toward the very evil manipulativeness in deed and l...
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Harmony is a writer and interdisciplinary artist working across dance, film, music and archives of black culture. She’s currently finishing a biography of Abbey Lincoln, a memoir, and a new collection of poems
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