The earliest is of Basie’s drummer, Sonny Payne, at Croydon in 1959 ... Others are studies in deep concentration, such as Tony Williams at Jazz Expo ’67 or Shannon Jackson at Soundscape. The ...
Reaping the benefits of a multi-generational household, the Barber Brothers were exposed at an early age to a myriad of African-American musics. These include the gospel ... but which are by any ...
M. Austen Wyche ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Winthrop House. As a generational African American student, coming to Harvard has certainly been “transformative.” Growing up in ...
Essentially, the group adopted a sound that saw avant-garde jazz blended with African funk rhythms to create something entirely original and endlessly infectious. Although Oneness of Juju always ...
As a young drummer, Art came under the tutelage of legendary drummer and bandleader ... He is the author of Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism (NYU ...