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Tracks of the Week 11.09.21

Tracks of the Week
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting almost a decade ago. Conjuring her lively presence and the blessing of her birth, Blake pays a form of tribute to his...

Tracks of the Week 08.05.21

Tracks of the Week
As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations at Jagjaguwar, this week Hypnotic Brass Ensemble announced This is a Mindfulness Drill, a thorough reimagining of the 1998 record Sapphie by Richard Youngs. The original album by Youngs was an aching ode to the memory of a pet Alsatian. The first salvo from Hypnotic Brass Ensemble features the sweetly sustaining voice...

Tracks of the Week 27.06.20

Tracks of the Week
The Spanish word 'mequetrefe', which roughly translates as 'good-for-nothing', can be applied equally to a lousy person or a shoddy product and carries other connotations, of nosiness, boisterousness, a sort of persistent yet flippant meddling, cheapness, shallowness or silliness, it can label outsiders, stragglers, wayfarers, and bums. While the word is mostly used as a pejorative, more ambivalently it...