Tag: jazz
Residents of Williamsburg got a fun surprise on Tuesday evening, when Jon Batiste, the new band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performed a surprise concert. can you meet me at 6pm on Bedford Ave and North 7th St? #socialmusic #loveriot pic.twitter.com/M7RMsj3IND — Jon Batiste (@JonBatiste) June 9, 2015 Gothamist, which snapped some […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. In some ways, Joey Bada$$ and Rick Ross couldn’t be more different. One is a teenager from Flatbush who, despite high-profile cosigns, still feels like an anachronistic underdog, spitting […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. In this week’s installment we’re looking at Miles Davis’s “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down,” which inspired two modern legends in their own right: Radiohead and Madlib (via his group Lootpack). […]
