All, I hope you enjoyed the sixth week issue (December 6-12) of SOUND PROJECTIONS, the new online quarterly music magazine which featured the legendary and innovative pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, world music pioneer, and ensemble leader HERBIE HANCOCK. Week #7 begins TODAY on Saturday, December 13, 2014 @10AM PST which is @1PM EST. The featured artist for the upcoming week (December 13-19) is the legendary and iconic saxophonist, composer, and ensemble leader SONNY ROLLINS. So enjoy this week’s musical entry in SOUND PROJECTIONS, the online quarterly music magazine and please pass the word to your friends, colleagues, comrades, and associates that the magazine is now up and running at the following site. Please click on the link below: soundprojections.blogspot/ Thanks. For further important details please read below... Kofi Sound Projections A sonic exploration and tonal analysis of contemporary creative music in a myriad of improvisational/composed settings, textures, and expressions. Welcome to Sound Projections Im your host Kofi Natambu. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one were living in) as well as that of the historical past. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. Im also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture. Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of Jazz, classical music, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock n Roll, Pop, Funk, Hip Hop etc. in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do creatively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be. So please join me in this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities. Saturday, December 13, 2014 Sonny Rollins (b. September 7, 1930): Legendary and Iconic Master Musician, Composer, and Ensemble Leader SOUND PROJECTIONS AN ONLINE QUARTERLY MUSIC MAGAZINE EDITOR: KOFI NATAMBU WINTER, 2014 VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE MILES DAVIS (Cover image) Featuring the Musics and Aesthetic Visions of: ANTHONY BRAXTON November 1-7 CECIL TAYLOR November 8-14 STEVIE WONDER November 15-21 JIMI HENDRIX November 22-28 GERI ALLEN November 29-December 5 HERBIE HANCOCK December 6-12 SONNY ROLLINS December 13-19 JANELLE MONAE December 20-26 GARY CLARK, JR. December 27-January 2 NINA SIMONE January 3-January 9 ORNETTE COLEMAN January 10-January 16 WAYNE SHORTER January 17-23 *[Special bonus feature: A celebration of the centennial year of musician, composer, orchestra leader, and philosopher SUN RA, 1914-1993] January 24-30 WHAT IS SOUND PROJECTIONS?: This is a quarterly magazine which means that each individual issue will appear every three months following the first issue on November 1, 2014 and that four issues will constitute the completion of one volume (Volume 1, Numbers 1-4). Twelve (12) artists will be featured during each quarter. In this design template this means that one artist will be featured per week for 12 weeks beginning with the first issue on November 1 and thus continuing for three months until the second issue appears on February 1, 2015. Thus each subsequent issue will repeat the cycle with 12 new artists featured for each quarter. The photo in the middle of the page (in the first issue it is Miles Davis) constitutes the cover image for the magazine for that quarter and this image changes every three months with each subsequent issue. What follows is the weekly schedule for each artist in volume one, number one that runs from November 1, 2014 to January 23, 2015 with the second round of new artists appearing in the February 1, 2015 issue (volume one, number two): ANTHONY BRAXTON November 1-7 CECIL TAYLOR November 8-14 STEVIE WONDER November 15-21 JIMI HENDRIX November 22-28 GERI ALLEN November 29-December 5 HERBIE HANCOCK December 6-12 SONNY ROLLINS December 13-19 JANELLE MONAE December 20-26 GARY CLARK, JR. December 27-January 2 NINA SIMONE January 3-January 9 ORNETTE COLEMAN January 10-January 16 WAYNE SHORTER January 17-23 SUN RA 2014 Centennial January 24-30 EXCERPTS: sonnyrollins/: Sonny Rollins--The Official Website of the Saxophone Colossus All, In the incredibly rich pantheon of African American art and culture there have been many legendary musical artists from the Jazz tradition who through their prodigious art have dramatically changed the very course of cultural history in the modern world. These astonishing and truly revolutionary figures: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillispie. Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Sarah Vaugyhn, Betty Carter, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Kenny Clarke, Herbie Nichols, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Jackie McLean and Archie Shepp-- just to name a few icons from a HUGE collection of truly extraordinary artists in this always fecund tradition--have played a major role in our fundamental understanding of what exactly constitutes GREAT ART in the world. It is this grand, profound, and tirelessly powerful legacy that the living legend and saxophone genius SONNY ROLLINS (b. September 7, 1930) embodies and epitomizes in every improvisational gesture that he expresses and is the very source of his magisterial command of his instrument. A consummate master who continues at age 81 (!) to enthrall and captivate his many listeners around the world, Theodore Walter Sonny Rollins was one of five Kennedy Center Honorees for 2011 on December 3, 2011 (broadcast on CBS television this past tuesday night December 27, 2011). It is in direct response to and heartfelt appreciation for this great honor that the following TRIBUTE TO THE SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS is made. Long May this GIANT continue to grace our lives with the depth, courage, insight, clarity, beauty, and creative authority that marks his tremendous artistry and his eloquent, humble and generous humanity. SONNYMOON FOR US ALL INDEED... Kofi America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms, its humor, its music. How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim Americas culture as its own, is being persecuted and repressed, that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in its very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity. --Sonny Rollins (Liner Notes to Freedom Suite 1958) SONNYMOON FOR US ALL (For the greatest saxophonist in the world: Sonny Rollins) By Kofi Natambu WHEN SONNY STANDS IN FOR THE MOON WE HEAR SUCH A GLORIOUS TUNE ITS ALWAYS A BIT OF A SWOON WHEN SONNY STANDS IN FOR THE MOON THE SONG COULD BE AUGUST OR JUNE A HELL OF A BURST OR A BOON WAILING AT MIDNIGHT OR NOON WHEN SONNY STANDS IN FOR THE MOON TRANSVERSING HARMONIC LAGOONS HE PLAYS THRU OUR FEARS AND OUR WOUNDS HIS HORN IS A RHYTHMIC PLATOON WHEN SONNY STANDS IN FOR THE MOON I THINK I WILL SOON BE A LOON OR AT LEAST A RAVING BABOON IF I DONT GET TO HEAR SOME MORE TUNES FROM THAT SOARING MELODIC BALLOON O ROLLINS BLOWS HEAT CAN BE FIERCE OR SO SWEET YEAH SONNY SWINGS FULL LIKE THE MOON YEAH SONNY SWINGS FULL LIKE THE MOON YEAH SONNY SWINGS FULL LIKE THE MOON YEAH SONNY SWINGS FULL LIKE THE MOON... From: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS by Kofi Natambu (Past Tents Press, 1991)
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