Saturday 18 April 2009

The Jazz Baroness




The Jazz Baroness

Documentary about the British Jewish baroness who fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk.

Nica, the Baroness de Koenigswarter, was a major supporter of jazz in New York in the 1950s and 60's, her home becoming a meeting point, unofficial rehearsal space and, above all, sanctuary for the leading jazz musicians of the time.

The drum kit (antique Gretsch) I used for some of the sessions for space was lent to me by Steven De Koeningswater, one of Nica's grandchildren. It belonged to his father, Clifford Jarvis who played with Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Freddie Hubbard to name but a few!

A beautiful and yet sad story of that fruitful but racially suppressed artistic era

Friday 17 April 2009

Sun Ra "Calling Planet Earth"



As recommended to me by Michael Rutten, perhaps this will turn up in the emanative live set at some point?

Space

Tuesday 7 April 2009

basic soul - emanative's spatial beats mixtape


Emanative - Spacebeat intro feat Kissey Asplund [Intro]
Ben Hadwen - Interlune (for Motto) [Intro]
Emanative - Wind, Sand And Stars feat Heidi Vogel [Futuristica Music]
TTC - De Pauvres De Riches (Excerpt) [Ninja Tune]
Super Smoky Soul - Huge Magical Vision - [Circulations]
K-15 - Theme From A Pariah [CD-R]
Emanative - We Travel The Spacebeats [Futuristica Music]
Emanative - Petite Planète (Positive Flow's Deep Orbit Mix) [Futuristica Music]
Herbie Hancock - Butterfly [Columbia]
Stanley Cowell - El Space-O [Galaxy]
Byron & Onra - Cosmic Travelling/New Worlds (Instrumental) [Circulations]
Marcus Belgrave - Space Odyssey [Tribe Records]
Jazz Chronicles - Bologna (Emanative's Enchantment Re-Work) [Futuristica Music]
Deep Space Orchestra - Moonrunners [CD-R]