輸入雑誌/文章は英語で記載

year/2009

country/US

label/Wax Poetics

ソウル、ファンク、ジャズ、 ヒップホップを中心に最も質の高い音楽を届ける超良質雑誌「Wax Poetics」の英語版US Issue 32号。

Sly Stone、Jimmy Cliff、Ahmad Jamalの他、Houston Rennaissance、Jean Grae、Terry Lyn、Large Professor、Egyptian Love、Arabian Prince、Jamaa Fanaka、Cey Adamsといった幅広いミュージシャンと音楽の貴重な記事を収めている。英語版であるが、この本を読まずして真のミュージック・ラヴァーとは言えない？



Issue 32 offers a rare and insightful look at funk visionary Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone. We also follow reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff through a long and textured career which spanned five decades and encompassed several milestones in the music and movie mediums.



Sly Stone

"I don't read much of what anybody writes about me, but I know that it's mostly secondhand stuff that looks like it's supposed to be firsthand. I don't know nobody, and nobody knows me, and they don't know what they're talking about."


Jimmy Cliff

At last, Jimmy Cliff was off and running, with hit singles at the top of the Jamaican charts. The mode was ska, and the music forceful and bright.


Ahmad Jamal

In 1958, a Pittsburgh-born pianist named Ahmad Jamal recorded a show tune entitled "Poinciana" at a venue called the Pershing Lounge. His elegant pianisms transformed that song into something rare for the jazz world―a hit record.