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Tag: Awesome Tapes from Africa

Review: Hailu Mergia’s ‘Yene Mircha (የኔ ምርጫ)’

In January 2013, Brian Shimkovitz, the head of Awesome Tapes From Africa, found a cassette tape in a shop in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia titled Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument. Its combination of the nation’s traditional music with funk and jazz completely blew him away and he undertook a quest to share it with the […]

by Rob Shepherd
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Rob Shepherd’s Favorite Jazz Albums: 2009-2019

Editorial Note: Although PostGenre is the home of more than just “jazz” music, much of “jazz” consists of an amalgamation of various styles and approaches to music. This list, a republication of one that appeared on Nextbop on December 24, 2019, particularly shows the eclecticism of much of today’s “jazz.” Practically none of the ten […]

by Rob Shepherd
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