Tag Archives: Louis Armstrong

satchmo on tape

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: louis armstrong was an american original, a sparkling genius, the guy who virtually invented jazz. when i was in new orleans, everywhere i went, he was there – statues, murals, souvenir knick-knacks, street names, buildings, even the … Continue reading →

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X-factor: malcom in the middle east

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Malik Shabazz, aka Malcolm X (1925-1965) This issue of the Saturday Evening Post excerpts The Autobiography of Malcolm X (“I’m Talking To You, White Man”) and in photographs chronicles X’s … Continue reading →

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filling in the pauses: the aural gaze

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art

Creating a new genre of music. Improvisation, “making shit up” when you articulate the pauses and these gaps, these silent but charged spaces become the content and assume the central position in the compositional structure….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) : … Continue reading →

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No One Knows The Trouble He's Seen

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Dave

”Very often they do not even suspect that they too are niggers, slaves, ”white niggers”, while racism hides the reality from them by giving them the opportunity to despise an inferior, to crush him mentally or to pity him. But … Continue reading →

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