Jes' grew
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This wiki needs a jazz page. It will very likely grow. The name of this page is taken from Oakland-based Ishmael Reed's 1972, Mumbo Jumbo, which conjures "a centuries-old battle between two shadow forces: a group representing European institutional order and Jes Grew, a virus/movement/pleasure-seeking principle originating among black artists."[1]
- What do you think that this Jes Grew is up to?
- It’s up to its Text. For some, it’s a disease, a plague, but in fact it is an anti-plague. You will recall, Black Herman, that in the past there were germs that avoided words.[2]
After starting the page, I learned of Conjure's "Jes' Grew".
Spring 2021
- Pharaoh Sanders, Karma, "The Creator Has a Master Plan"
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- In the BFE 2000 version you still hear the Armistad,
- as you do in the Roman theatre in Vienne (2011)
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- "Jump Around Sound", Budapest (2008)
- Floating Point, Pharaoh Sanders & the LSO
- People are speaking of this series of promised movements in hushed, even churchy tones, and rightly so:
Previous issues
Refs
- ↑ Nawal Arjini (3 June 2019), "Ishmael Reed Tries to Undo the Damage ‘Hamilton’ Has Wrought", The Nation.
- ↑ Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo, 1972.
