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    "body": "![](/images/Sun-Ra-Arkestra-singer-June-Tyson-Berliner-JazztageBerlinGermany-november-1971._large.jpg)\n\nThe Voice of the Galaxies, **June Tyson** was the cosmic lead vocalist in Sun Ra's band from '68 until her death. She was also a dancer and helped design costumes for the Arkestra members, as well as played some violin in later years.\n\nI highly recommend the classic low-budget blaxploitation sci-fi flick _Space Is The Place_. Check out June and the Arkestra in this clip:\n\n**And here's a bonus interview with June:**\n\n**\n\n**",
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      "html": "<p><img src=\"/images/Sun-Ra-Arkestra-singer-June-Tyson-Berliner-JazztageBerlinGermany-november-1971._large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>The Voice of the Galaxies, <strong>June Tyson</strong> was the cosmic lead vocalist in Sun Ra’s band from ‘68 until her death. She was also a dancer and helped design costumes for the Arkestra members, as well as played some violin in later years.</p>\n<p>I highly recommend the classic low-budget blaxploitation sci-fi flick <em>Space Is The Place</em>. Check out June and the Arkestra in this clip:</p>\n<p><strong>And here’s a bonus interview with June:</strong></p>\n<p>**</p>\n<p>**</p>",
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    "body": "_**Good news! Dave Noonan's new island-jazz ensemble is playing their third ever concert this Saturday at The Root Cellar, our Greenfield MA home base venue. We had the group for their debut concert as part of our Peace & Rhythm Presents weekly series last summer/fall and the results, musically and crowd-wise, have been quite pleasing for the first two shows. This group is a collection of some of the finest musicians in the region and their blend of Ernest Ranglin-inspired jazz, Marvin Gaye-inspired soul and roots reggae is quite a flavorful recipe. This time out they present a special Bob Marley-inspired set. We greatly look forward to this.**_  \n\n\n_**![](/images/14906915_1811306739117313_7731045880394342805_n_large.jpg)**_\n\n_(pictured: Jamemurrell Stanley & Dave Noonan, live at The Root Cellar)_\n\n**Dave Noonan's Green Island** returns to **The Root Cellar** for a hot Saturday night of r**eggae, afro jazz, ska, funk, soul** , maybe a love song or two, and whatever else we can conjure up.   \nWe'll also be paying special tribute to **Bob Marley and the Wailing Wailers** on this night, with a selection of tunes not usually performed by the band.   \n**Saturday February 4, 2017**.   \nDoors at 8:30, music at 9:00.   \n$7.00 at the door, tix also available in advance!  \nThe band, as always, is comprised of some of the best people and players out there.  \n**Ras Jahn Bullock** -vocals (The Alchemystics)  \n**Lesley Smith** -vocals  \n**Ian I** -vocals, guitar (The Alchemystics)  \n**Jon Weeks** -tenor and soprano saxophone (Creación)  \n**Cliff White** -baritone and alto saxophone (Wadada Leo Smith)  \n**Kat Rapacki** -trombone (The Mary Jane Jones)  \n**Dan Thomas** -guitar (Llama Lasanga)  \n**Jay Metcalf** -keyboards (Ras Spectiv)  \n**Chris Ball** -bass (The Alchemystics)  \n**Jamemurrell Stanley** -percussion (Max Creek)  \n**El Rey Mateo** -percussion (The Alchemystics)  \n**Dave Noonan** -drums  \nWe look forward to playing for you! See you on the dance floor!  \nThe Root Cellar offers a comfortable, casual, and classy environment to listen to music, dance and relax with your friends, and enjoy some of the best beverages in the valley, as well as a secluded outdoor space to breathe in some fresh air and do your thing.   \nWe love to perform here-the vibes are always nice and easy.   \nCome on down and take a load off with us.\n\n[DNGI Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Dave-Noonans-Green-Island-1811304619117525/)  \n\n\n[http://www.rootcellarbar.com/](http://www.rootcellarbar.com/)",
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      "html": "<p><em><strong>Good news! Dave Noonan’s new island-jazz ensemble is playing their third ever concert this Saturday at The Root Cellar, our Greenfield MA home base venue. We had the group for their debut concert as part of our Peace &#x26; Rhythm Presents weekly series last summer/fall and the results, musically and crowd-wise, have been quite pleasing for the first two shows. This group is a collection of some of the finest musicians in the region and their blend of Ernest Ranglin-inspired jazz, Marvin Gaye-inspired soul and roots reggae is quite a flavorful recipe. This time out they present a special Bob Marley-inspired set. We greatly look forward to this.</strong></em></p>\n<p><em><strong><img src=\"/images/14906915_1811306739117313_7731045880394342805_n_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></strong></em></p>\n<p><em>(pictured: Jamemurrell Stanley &#x26; Dave Noonan, live at The Root Cellar)</em></p>\n<p><strong>Dave Noonan’s Green Island</strong> returns to <strong>The Root Cellar</strong> for a hot Saturday night of r<strong>eggae, afro jazz, ska, funk, soul</strong> , maybe a love song or two, and whatever else we can conjure up.<br>\nWe’ll also be paying special tribute to <strong>Bob Marley and the Wailing Wailers</strong> on this night, with a selection of tunes not usually performed by the band.<br>\n<strong>Saturday February 4, 2017</strong>.<br>\nDoors at 8:30, music at 9:00.<br>\n$7.00 at the door, tix also available in advance!<br>\nThe band, as always, is comprised of some of the best people and players out there.<br>\n<strong>Ras Jahn Bullock</strong> -vocals (The Alchemystics)<br>\n<strong>Lesley Smith</strong> -vocals<br>\n<strong>Ian I</strong> -vocals, guitar (The Alchemystics)<br>\n<strong>Jon Weeks</strong> -tenor and soprano saxophone (Creación)<br>\n<strong>Cliff White</strong> -baritone and alto saxophone (Wadada Leo Smith)<br>\n<strong>Kat Rapacki</strong> -trombone (The Mary Jane Jones)<br>\n<strong>Dan Thomas</strong> -guitar (Llama Lasanga)<br>\n<strong>Jay Metcalf</strong> -keyboards (Ras Spectiv)<br>\n<strong>Chris Ball</strong> -bass (The Alchemystics)<br>\n<strong>Jamemurrell Stanley</strong> -percussion (Max Creek)<br>\n<strong>El Rey Mateo</strong> -percussion (The Alchemystics)<br>\n<strong>Dave Noonan</strong> -drums<br>\nWe look forward to playing for you! See you on the dance floor!<br>\nThe Root Cellar offers a comfortable, casual, and classy environment to listen to music, dance and relax with your friends, and enjoy some of the best beverages in the valley, as well as a secluded outdoor space to breathe in some fresh air and do your thing.<br>\nWe love to perform here-the vibes are always nice and easy.<br>\nCome on down and take a load off with us.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Dave-Noonans-Green-Island-1811304619117525/\">DNGI Facebook page</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.rootcellarbar.com/\">http://www.rootcellarbar.com/</a></p>",
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    "body": "**![](/images/th_large.jpg)**\n\n**John Stubblefield** was a talented and highly underrated reedsman who sounded great on so many classic records. From segregated Little Rock, he toured with Solomon Burke before settling in Chicago in the late '60s, where he joined up with the AACM. He moved to NYC in the '70s and worked with Mary Lou Williams, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Tito Puente, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Nat Adderley and a stormy membership in the Charles Mingus band. At one point he was also director of the Jazzmobile. He recorded a few excellent albums under his own name and left the planet in 2005.\n\nHere is a full YouTube album stream of his 1978 Storyville label disk _Prelude_ :",
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    "body": "**![](/images/6a00e008dca1f0883401901cad2aa9970b-600wi_large.jpg)**\n\n**Jutta Hipp** was a pioneering female jazz pianist from Germany. After a rough time as a displaced person in the '40s in Germany, she toured around Europe in the '50s with Atilla Zoller and others before coming Stateside in '55. She made a few records before retiring from the scene. Today, she has a street named after her in her hometown.\n\nThis cut features Zoot Sims on the sax:",
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      "html": "<p><strong><img src=\"/images/6a00e008dca1f0883401901cad2aa9970b-600wi_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Jutta Hipp</strong> was a pioneering female jazz pianist from Germany. After a rough time as a displaced person in the ’40s in Germany, she toured around Europe in the ’50s with Atilla Zoller and others before coming Stateside in ‘55. She made a few records before retiring from the scene. Today, she has a street named after her in her hometown.</p>\n<p>This cut features Zoot Sims on the sax:</p>",
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    "body": "![](/images/c4061bcc85804073240227d5f01b6ffa_large.jpg)\n\nHouston-born **Johnny \"Guitar\" Watson** was a solid blues guitarist in the '50s and '60s before he re-invented himself as the funk god that George Clinton surely studied the style of. Early on he played with Albert Collins, Amos Milburn, Johnny Otis and others. Around '67 he made a very hip record with his friend Larry Williams and the US psych band The Kaleidoscope! (\"Nobody\"). He recorded with Frank Zappa and then David Axelrod in the mid 70s before his huge funk hits \"Ain't That A Bitch\" and \"A Real Mother For Ya\". The Gangster of Love also recorded with Dr Dre. He died onstage in Japan.\n\n\"Gangster of Love\", King 45 style:",
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      "html": "<p><img src=\"/images/c4061bcc85804073240227d5f01b6ffa_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Houston-born <strong>Johnny “Guitar” Watson</strong> was a solid blues guitarist in the ’50s and ’60s before he re-invented himself as the funk god that George Clinton surely studied the style of. Early on he played with Albert Collins, Amos Milburn, Johnny Otis and others. Around ‘67 he made a very hip record with his friend Larry Williams and the US psych band The Kaleidoscope! (“Nobody”). He recorded with Frank Zappa and then David Axelrod in the mid 70s before his huge funk hits “Ain’t That A Bitch” and “A Real Mother For Ya”. The Gangster of Love also recorded with Dr Dre. He died onstage in Japan.</p>\n<p>“Gangster of Love”, King 45 style:</p>",
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    "body": "![](/images/cachaito_large.jpg)\n\nNephew of the great Cachao, bassist for Buena Vista Social Club and an incredible musician on all fronts, **Orlando \"Cachaíto\" López** was part of the great López musical family in Cuba, son of composer Orestes López. He came from a lineage of over 30 bassists. He helped create the _descarga_ in the '50s and played in Orquesta Riverside. Cachaíto made one classic self-titled record on World Circuit that mixed Cuban _son_ with funk, descargas with Mingus, dub with jazz. Also hear his work he did on Angá Diaz's album _Echu Mingua_.\n\nHere's a short film shot for his album, produced by [World Circuit Records](http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/):",
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      "html": "<p><img src=\"/images/cachaito_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Nephew of the great Cachao, bassist for Buena Vista Social Club and an incredible musician on all fronts, <strong>Orlando “Cachaíto” López</strong> was part of the great López musical family in Cuba, son of composer Orestes López. He came from a lineage of over 30 bassists. He helped create the <em>descarga</em> in the ’50s and played in Orquesta Riverside. Cachaíto made one classic self-titled record on World Circuit that mixed Cuban <em>son</em> with funk, descargas with Mingus, dub with jazz. Also hear his work he did on Angá Diaz’s album <em>Echu Mingua</em>.</p>\n<p>Here’s a short film shot for his album, produced by <a href=\"http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/\">World Circuit Records</a>:</p>",
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    "body": "![](/images/MI0001327996_large.jpg)\n\nOne of my favorite voices in reggae, **Dennis Emmanuel Brown** was hugely popular on the island of Jamaica and beyond. Starting as a \"Boy Wonder\", he was nationally known by the time he was 12. \"Money In My Pocket\" and \"Westbound Train\" were big hits in '72 and '73, before Brown finished college. In '75 he started his DEB label and in '76 recorded \"Wolf & Leopard\" with Lee Perry at the Black Ark. By the late '70s Brown was a big name in the UK. He sang lovers rock in his later years.\n\nOne of my favorites, with Sly & Robbie on the riddim, with Sly Dunbar's drums intentionally mimicking the sound of gunfire heard in the streets of Kingston:",
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    "body": "![](/images/mgid-uma-video-mtv_large.jpg)\n\nOne of the funkiest was **Rick James** , the wild funk-rock genius of \"Super Freak\". Buffalo-born, he escaped to Canada as a draft-dodger and played in the Mynah Birds with Neil Young and Bruce Palmer until he was busted and thrown in the clink. He played on the amazing psych record by Bruce Palmer ([_The Cycle Is Complete_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCl2zI8c-D4)) as Rick Matthews, before transforming into the larger-than-life funk god. And the rest is dirty history.\n\nFrom 1981's _Street Songs_ :",
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      "html": "<p><img src=\"/images/mgid-uma-video-mtv_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>One of the funkiest was <strong>Rick James</strong> , the wild funk-rock genius of “Super Freak”. Buffalo-born, he escaped to Canada as a draft-dodger and played in the Mynah Birds with Neil Young and Bruce Palmer until he was busted and thrown in the clink. He played on the amazing psych record by Bruce Palmer (<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCl2zI8c-D4\"><em>The Cycle Is Complete</em></a>) as Rick Matthews, before transforming into the larger-than-life funk god. And the rest is dirty history.</p>\n<p>From 1981’s <em>Street Songs</em> :</p>",
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    "body": "![](/images/BAILEY-Derek-93_large.jpg)\n\nThe great British improviser **Derek Bailey** is one of the most important and respected non-pop guitarists to come out of the UK music scene. After doing a few straight-ahead gigs, Bailey went the free-form route and co-founded Spontaneous Music Ensemble, as well as Music Improvisation Company. In 1970 he co-founded the first musician-owned improv label in the UK, Incus Records. To listen to Bailey, you would have to throw away every conventional way that you have heard guitar. He plays improvised music, with little concession to pop or rock (or even jazz). Throughout the years he has collaborated with Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Jazz Composers Orchestra, John Zorn, Cecil Taylor, Ruins, Cyro Baptista, Johnny Dyani, Thurston Moore, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith and many more.\n\nHere is the full album to his 1975 classic _Improvisation_ :",
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    "body": "![](/images/jeanne-lee-20150425154034_large.jpg)\n\nHappy birthday to vocalist **Jeanne Lee**! From NYC, she was not only a vocalist but a choreographer for classical, modern and jazz settings. She formed a musical partnership in the early '60s with Ran Blake, but the duo had more success across the pond. In the mid-'60s she was collaborating in avant-garde, sound-art, poetry and Fluxus happenings and in the late '60s/early '70s was contributing to work by Archie Shepp, Marion Brown and Carla Bley (_Escalator Over The Hill_), as well as with her husband Gunter Hampel (Galaxy Dream Band, etc). She has also appeared with Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Mal Waldron, Jimmy Lyons, Jane Bunnett, Reggie Workman and has written pieces for opera. She also wrote a book for children about jazz history.\n\nThe title song from this 1969 album by Archie Shepp (_Blasé_) is one of my favorite tunes to feature her. \"You, who shot your sperm into me...but NEVER set me free\"...",
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    "body": "![](/images/p020xn18_large.jpg)\n\nThe **_Charles Mingus 1968_** documentary is now available in full on Youtube. Shot by then-23 year old **Thomas Reichman** captures Mingus being evicted (actually in '66, when times were tough for the Mingus family), dealing with police (he gets arrested) and his possessions on the sidewalk. Candid moments of Charles and his daughter are here, as well as some concert footage shot in Massachusetts at Lenny's-On-The-Turnpike. Players include Dannie Richmond, Walter Bishop, Charles McPherson.\n\nReichman committed suicide in '75.\n\nCheck it out while it is up:\n\n**More info on the flick can be found [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingus:_Charlie_Mingus_1968).**",
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    "body": "**![](/images/King-Tubby_large.jpg)**\n\n**Osbourne Ruddock** aka \"**King Tubby** \" is the all-time Heavyweight Dub Champion. Where would contemporary music be without this man from the Kingston, Jamaica ghetto of Waterhouse? A radio repair man and electronics expert, Tubby built amplifiers and operated a sound-system starting in the late 50's. He invented the dub remix by dropping out vocals and instruments with his mixing board and adding effects (including his infamous spring reverb). These \"versions\" soon became their own artform in the hands of Tubby and his methods became known worldwide. His work is featured on hundreds of records and he was mentor to Scientist and Prince Jammy. Although he was murdered in 1989, he remains inarguably one of the most important architects of contemporary urban music.\n\nHere's a great collection of tunes Tubby mixed from the Freedom Sounds catalogue, compiled for the much-missed Blood & Fire label:",
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