Jazz Riffing, Spirit(uals) and Ways of Being
Tyrone BirkettIntersecting Black improvised music, spirituality and alternative ontologies.
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Is Joy as Resistance just a cliche?
As a young teenager, I started playing saxophone at my home church, Soul Saving Station, Christ Crusaders of America in Harlem. Harlem at that time was still a hotbed of jazz clubs - Baby Grand, Cotton Club, Lenox Lounge, and Showman’s, whi...
Sanctified Sonic Sanctuaries
This is a clip from the song “Azusa Revisited”. A synthesis of Black church music and modern jazz inspired by the ecstatic and spiritual Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906. A Pentecostal spiritual awakening not channeled through a...
The song “Luminous Darkness”. A Behind-The-Scenes Look
On my previous post here, I laid my thoughts regarding the phenomenon of Luminous Darkness. Of light in the depths of darkness. In this post, here is a behind-the-scenes look at the song “Luminous Darkness”—from its conceptualization and co...
The Luminous Darkness
For many of us, the scenes we see on social media as a result of this regime are not something to celebrate. Power-grabbing edicts designed to dehumanize and strike fear in us. So much suffering. Empathy is labeled as toxic. The path out of...
Welcome to Jazz Riffing, Spirit(uals) and Ways of Being
As a composer, saxophonist and conceptualist, I come from the extemporizing traditions of both Black church and Black music. They both originate from the riff. An idea that is germinated by repetition, transformed, extended, and built upon...
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Saxophonist, Music Conceptualist. Wanna-be mystic. Exploring modes of transcendence. Intersecting Coltrane, Howard Thurman, James Cone, Sun Ra and early Black Pentecostalism.
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