2020 PostGenre Hall of Fame Inductee: Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”

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On May 29, 1913, a violent brawl broke out between the audience at Paris’ brand-new venue, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.…

2020 PostGenre Hall of Fame Inductee: Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five’s “West End Blues”

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Jazz fans can be a disputatious lot, yet if there’s something on which we all can agree it’s this: the…

Moor Mother and billy woods’ ‘Brass’

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The first song on BRASS (Backwoodz Studioz, 2020), “Furies”, was the beginning of something special. Although Moor Mother and billy…

2020 PostGenre Hall of Fame Inductee: J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’

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Far too many of music’s most innovative minds have died at a shockingly young age. Mozart, “Bird,” Dolphy, and Hendrix…

2020 PostGenre Hall of Fame Inductee: John Zorn’s ‘Naked City’

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2020 marks the 25th Anniversary of multi-instrumentalist/composer/ producer John Zorn's founding of Tzadik Records. An incredibly prolific label, Tzadik Records…

Anthony Dean-Harris’ Best “Jazz” Albums of 2020

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[Editor’s Note: We are honored to have Anthony Dean-Harris join us as a special contributor for this year’s lists. Several…

The Editor’s Reflections on a Crazy Year and his Best of 2020

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Historians will probably remember 2020 primarily for the COVID pandemic, movements for racial justice, and lots and lots of politics.…

PostGenre’s Best of 2020

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For nearly everyone, 2020 has been a time of difficulty. A pandemic. Intense political uncertainty. Murder hornets (?). It has…

Review: Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas’ ‘Force Majeure’

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Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed.) defines force majeure as “an event that can be neither anticipated nor controlled.” A party…

Brian Kiwanuka’s Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019

4 years ago

As the PostGenre Team is working on their list(s) of Favorites from 2020, here is a flashback to Brian Kiwanuka’s…