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Wax Poetics Issue 15, Feb/Mar 2006
The Mizell Brothers made Blue Note the hippest record label of the 1970s, even if it infuriated the jazz purists. Archie Shepp and the jazz avant-garde also had a knack for incensing the critics. We've got beautiful photos showing how real their movement was. And we finish up our talk with David Axelrod, who never got his own critical due.
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Featured Articles:
The Mizell Bros.
"That's what we called it—instrumental, funk-dance groove—but we definitely weren't the first. There were all kinds of forays into that territory before, like Miles's A Tribute to Jack Johnson album, which we loved."
The New Music
Photographer Guy Kopelowicz captured the Jazz Avante-Garde in New York and Paris. We have thirteen pages of classic black-and-white photos, some of which have never been published before.
David Axelrod
"I was recording Cannonball and he was taking a solo that was so fucking good, and I was listening, going, 'Just think, they pay me for this.' And everybody just fell out laughing. Then I looked around like, 'What? Jesus, I said that out loud.'"
Also includes:
Re:Discovery
The wildly popular front-of-book record section continues with the Sylvers, the Junkyard Band, Sidney Owens and the North, South Connection, Sir Victor Uwaifo, and Gershon Kingsley.
DJ Cash Money
The DMC World Champion battle DJ and famous hip-hop heavyweight is deep in the collection game.
Nostalgia 77
Virtuoso U.K. producer digs homegrown jazz gems.
The Skull Snaps
Funk phenomenon finally catch a break!
Bobbi Humphrey
The Mama Don Dada fights the good fight.
Jackie Jackson
Jamaican bassist gave birth to the rocksteady groove.
12x12
Monkone returns with a look at the disco ladies.
DJ Cliffy
U.K. DJ brings the Brazilian heat back to the cloudy Kingdom.
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