Mendi & Keith Obadike/Interview

Mendi & Keith Obadike/Interview

Photo by Monteith McCollum Mendi & Keith Obadike take questions about their work in a presentation at the Binghamton Tech Center, March 27, 2018.    An Architecture of Sound:  Music’s Spacial Dimensions    with Julian G. Guevara Interviewer The...

African Safari/Fred’s April Playlist

  TAKE TEN SAFARI Category: Kenya Song Title: Malaika (My Angel) Artist: Fadhili William and The Black Shadows Year: 1963 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8siIAxxDuDQ Category: Ghana Song Title: I Walk Alone Artist: Marijata Year: 1976...
Fred Roberts/World Music

Fred Roberts/World Music

Stef Bos  photo © Ben Kleyn     Fire, Flame, Desire, Passion: Stef Bos – Vuur (1994)   Few people outside of the Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans speaking world will have heard of Stef Bos. He entered the music scene in Holland in 1990 with a song...

Mario Moroni/Poetry

 *** Intermezzo by Mario Moroni     Recitare le ceneri Ciò che rimane del giorno, ciò che non si vede più o che è stato mal visto, quel giorno quando John Trevor era uscito in strada, scese le scale: “Cielo quasi blu dalle mille forme scure” aveva...
Candice Watkins/All That Jazz

Candice Watkins/All That Jazz

Rusty Bryant at the Carolyn Club *** Royal Rusty Bryant   by Candice Watkins Contributing Music Writer I was lucky enough to be Royal Rusty Bryant’s friend in the later years of his life. He came to play at the Hot Times Festival in the Near East Side of...