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.
- re:Discovery The Sylvers, The Junkyard Band, Sidney Owens and North South Connection, Sir Victor Uwaifo and His Melody Maestros, Gershon Kingsley (Composer)
- Three Times Deep DJ Cash Money is Deep Into Everything
- Score Keeper Virtuoso U.K. Producer Nostalgia 77 Digs Homegrown Jazz Gems
- It’s Their Turn The Skull Snaps Finally Catch a Break
- Mama Don Dada Jazz Flutist Bobbi Humphrey Fights the Good Fight
- The New Music Photographer Guy Kopelowicz and the Jazz Avant-Garde in New York and Paris
- In the Ring With Producer David Axelrod. Round two.
- Heavy Hands Jamaican Bassist Jackie Jackson Gives Birth to Rocksteady
- 12×12 Disco Ladies
- Stepping Into Tomorrow The Mizell Brothers Created a Soundtrack to the Hood
[...] they saw the Greatest bragging about his new move on TV, David Axelrod and H. B. Barnum wrote this song over the phone in one night and recorded it the next morning with [...]
– Brothers and Sisters (Capitol) late ’60s « Wax Poetics September 11th, 2009 at 3:12 pm[...] fifth straight collaboration with the Mizell Brothers yielded an album full of smooth but tricky dance-floor grooves and staggering yet unobtrusive [...]
– Donald Byrd Places and Spaces (Blue Note) 1976 « Wax Poetics September 11th, 2009 at 3:13 pm[...] Rhymes was co-produced by David Axelrod and Johnny Watson, with a couple tracks being handled by Hi’s Willie Mitchell, giving the [...]
– Betty Everett (Fantasy) 1974 « Wax Poetics September 11th, 2009 at 3:15 pm[...] Jamaican bass talent Jackie Jackson serves up some rapid-fire riffing on this 1972 side, one of several “Reggay”-themed [...]
– Toots and the Maytals Slatyam Stoot (Dynamic) 1972 « Wax Poetics September 11th, 2009 at 3:18 pm[...] Dozier and the Holland brothers, and contemplating the westward move that would eventually bring the Mizell Brothers into the Motown fold. This left Dozier & Co. free to start their Hot Wax and Invictus labels. [...]
– The Honey Cone (Hot Wax) 1969 « Wax Poetics September 11th, 2009 at 3:21 pm[...] well as digging for records,” says Nostalgia 77’s Ben Lamdin in Issue 15, ”I realized you can dig for scores.” As fellow obsessive collectors, we eventually [...]
– Between the Sheets « Wax Poetics November 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm[...] out Guy Kopelowicz’s photos of Brown in Issue 15 (if you can find [...]
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