The master of mashups, DJ Cummerbund continues blow our minds with another amazing track. This time he’s using Stevie Wonder, Disturbed, Styx, Will Smith, and Randy “Macho Man” Savage and turning into a monster track.
The Periodic Table of David Bowie
By creating false taxonomies and subjective maps of relationships between ideas and people of note, Paul Robertson creates the illusion of scientific relationships. Periodic Tables, molecules and DNA strands become vectors for a pseudo-scientific mapping of the worlds of celebrity, philosophy, art and music.
THE PERIODIC TABLE OF BOWIE is the last artwork in the Victoria & Albert ‘DAVID BOWIE is’ exhibition. A massive wall vinyl which charts the various influences on the foremost British performer, rock star and actor. The work will travel with the V&A exhibition to other major cities over the next two years (Toronto firstly then San Paolo).
Robertson utilities the fact that in the original real chemical periodic table there are ten “families” of elements which react with others in similar ways within a family. Within these artistic periodic tables the ten families are used to tease out different aspects of the subject matter in a poetic sense.
The work also exists in a number of alternative forms – it is possible to buy the original vinyl wall work (from an edition of three with one artist’s proof) or an A0 Giclee print of the work (one of ten copies plus one artist’s proof) or the much more affordable A2 full colour offset print of the work which is shown below. You can buy the print here.
Photo Gallery: Dashboard Confessional with The Elwins and Gabrielle Shonk at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Watch: Jazz drummer Max Roach remembers how he got his start in music
Max Roach was one of the first drummers to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. Roach played on many of Parker’s most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz. The drummer’s early brush work with Powell’s trio, especially at fast tempos, is just genius. Check out this interview from 1993 where Roach explains how he got his start in music.
How Ornette Coleman changed the face of jazz
How Ornette Coleman changed the direction of Jazz in 1959. Essential.
Music Doc: The birth of synth music in England
Brilliant documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain. The documentary enjoyed screenings at several film festivals around Australia and on ABC TV.
https://youtu.be/8KkW8Ul7Q1I
Doo-Wop And Soul Group The Impressions discuss music and race
Formed in 1958 with members from Chicago and Chattanooga, The Impressions performed music ranging from doo-wop and soul to gospel and rhythm and blues. The group underwent multiple member changes, and today a core group including several of the original members from Chattanooga continue to perform. Their hits include “People Get Ready,” “Gypsy Woman,” “It’s All Right,” and “Finally Got Myself together (I’m a Changed Man).” The Impressions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
Check out this TEDx couch interview with members of the group discussing equality and their experiences with segregation and racism.
Roland Kirk plays three horns at once
Multiinstrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk plays Pedal Up on the 1975 Down Beat Readers Awards show with McCoy Tyner on piano, Stanley Clarke on bass and Lenny White on Drums.
Duke Ellington shares how he got the nickname “Duke”
At the age of seven, Edward Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him to live elegantly. Ellington’s childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner, his easy grace, and his dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, and began calling him “Duke.” Ellington credited his chum Edgar McEntree for the nickname. “I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So he called me Duke.”
Herbie Hancock Once Beat Miles Davis In A Car Drag Race
What was Miles Davis like to work with? Was he competitive with you guys?
Herbie Hancock: When “Watermelon Man” was a hit, under my publishing company, and I was the writer, and it was on my record [Takin’ Off, Hancock’s 1962 debut], I started getting some checks for it, it was on the radio, I thought, “Whoa, I might have to go on the road, get a band together, and start playing this thing.”
And so Donald Byrd, who took me in as his roommate, said, when I said I might get a station wagon, he said, “Have you ever thought about getting a sports car?” Donald had a Jaguar. He said there’s a car that’s been beating Ferraris in races and it’s a Ford — an AC Cobra.
I bought the car, for $6,000. Then I got hired by Miles, maybe a month later, and I’m gonna go on the road. But I had one more gig, at the Village Gate in New York, as a sideman for Clark Terry. … When we were playing the last set, I looked out the corner of my eye, and who do I see? Miles! Miles had come down.
We finish the set, we come down and Miles says, [gravelly voice] “I’ll give you a lift home.” He knew I was living nearby. I said, “Aww, man, that would be fantastic, but I just bought a new car.” He said, “It’s not a Maserati.” I said, “No, no it’s not.”
We get downstairs and my car is near the exit. He says, “Cute.”
We both get to the stoplight at Sixth Avenue. It’s like 2, 3 o’clock in the morning. I knew what was going to happen: As soon as the light turns green, we’d floored it, right! So we drove several blocks before the next red light. I got to the light shortly before Miles, and I smoked Marlboros in those days. I grabbed one, lit it, rolled down the window as Miles drives up.
He looked over at me and he says, “What the fuck is that?” I said, “It’s an AC Cobra.” He said, “Get rid of it.” I said, “Why?” And he said, “It’s dangerous.” And then he started driving [off]. And I’m thinking, “I beat Miles!”