Today’s guest deejay is music journalist Phil Freeman .
Phil is a journalist, author, digital marketer, and social media professional.
Phil has written for The Wire, DownBeat, Village Voice, and other fine publications. Phil has written three books. His fourth book is Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, which will be released Tuesday, February 1st.
In Ugly Beauty, Phil asks pressing questions. What does jazz mean two decades into the 21st century? Has streaming culture made music meaningless? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model changed the music irrevocably? Phil has answers, of course, and he shares own experiences and conversations with present-day players.
Today’s show draws upon music from Ugly Beauty
Email us at geniusandsoulshow@gmail.com and we’ll randomly choose a winner to receive a copy of Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century.
The interstitial music on today’s show is “Perseverance” by Graham Haynes vs Submerged from their Echolocation album, from Phil’s Burning Ambulance label.
Join us next week when our guest deejay will be singer/songwriter, jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger Amina Claudine Myers.
What does jazz mean? I really like Wayne Shorters’s quote, “To me, the word jazz means I dare you.” Challenge yourself. Challenge the listener. Put a new idea out into the world. And I think that’s what draws me back to jazz as a listener. So that’s what I’m searching for all the time, with the caveat that the magic of jazz is always that it blends newness and familiarity.
—Phil Freeman
- Jaimie Branch “Simple Silver Surfer” from FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Seed Ensemble “The Darkies” from Driftglass
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Brandee Younger “Olivia Benson” from Somewhere Different
Amazon | Apple Music - Nérija “Partner Girlfriend Lover” from Blume
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Yazz Ahmed “The Space Between the Fish and the Moon” from La Saboteuse
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Mary Halvorson Octet “The Absolute Almost, No. 52” from Away With You
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Irreversible Entanglements “Bread Out of Stone” from Who Sent You?
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Matana Roberts “Wild Fire Bare” from Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Tomeka Reid Quartet “Niki’s Bop” from Old New
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Nubya Garcia “Stand With Each Other (featuring Ms MAURICE, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright)” from Source
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