Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
The music producer Adrian Younge was hanging out on Twitter one day and tweeted, “Who is better: The Dramatics or The Delfonics?” As his followers erupted in a debate over the two soul groups, one follower mentioned that the lead singer of The Delfonics, William Hart, was a friend of his dad’s and that Hart just happened
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Bernice Johnson Reagon,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity from 1964
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Big Mama Thornton (“Hound Dog”)
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Later, Coltrane chronicled one of these tragedies in his composition “Alabama,” which was written in the same year, 1963, as the murder of four little black girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
the age of forty-four, Hamer set out to let her light shine when she became a member of SNCC, working alongside many of the activists who had played such a pivotal role in her entrance into the civil rights movement.