Wax Poetics Issue 25
Twenty-five issues strong, Wax Poetics delivers its first photo issue featuring original pieces on New Orleans and Brazilian musicians, a Miles Davis feature on his funky fusion days, and photo-essays by David Corio, Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, Joe Conzo, and Charlie Ahearn. Buy the Playlist!
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Featured Articles:
Miles Davis
I have never been able to forget or forgive all those jazz and rock critics who trashed the music, the man, the band—and then, decades later, praised them as ahead of their time and records that they always championed. —Tom Terrell
Walking to New Orleans
Where were you during the last week of August 2005? Here in Memphis, I sat riveted to the TV while we witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in disbelief, watching as New Orleans's 17th Street Levee broke and an entire culture was flooded out.
The Beastie Boys
While the learning curve for most groups sets them in full motion after their first album, the Beastie Boys took a bit longer. But this wasn't necessarily a bad thing. In the search for their true identity, they made some pretty amazing music along the way.
Also Includes:
- Re:Discovery Donald Byrd, Parliament, Horde Catalytique Pour La Fin, the Eliminators, and Merry Clayton
- Obituary Drummer Max Roach
- Cold Chillin' Iceland's Samuel Jon Samuelsson translates big band into funk
- Realer than Real The indisputable groove of Sharon Jones
- Child's Play Numero Group takes kid soul seriously
- A New Universe Live musicianship is central to the Heliocentrics
- East Bay Spark Plug Eugene Blacknell's Oakland grease gave rise to a new breed of funk
- Rainforest Funk Peru's perfect blend of traditional and modern
- I Speak Music - Hip Hop - Old School Photo-essay by George DuBose
- The Black Chord Photo-essay by David Corio
- Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hip Hop Photography Photo-essay by Ernie Paniccioli
- Born in the Bronx Photo-essay by Joe Conzo
- Wild Style Photo-essay by Charlie Ahearn
- Seconds of My Life Photo-essay by Jamel Shabazz
- The Breaks Photo-essay by Janette Beckman
- Who Shot Ya A history of hip-hop photography by Bill Adler, excerpted from Jeff Chang's
- Brasilifornia A photo-essay of Brazilian musicians by B+
- Youthful Exuberance The Dragon brothers dream up an unheard psych-soul monster
