Jazz Generations
Jazz Generations is an internet radio program dedicated to the presentation of the great West African and Afro/Indigenous Legacies which have been, and remain “rivers” of vocabulary and inspiration for what we can call “Jazz”; a platform for sharing “music as memory” (our cultural heritage); “music as today’s experience” (our current environment: who and what is happening NOW); and potentially “fresh” music experiences affecting our individual perspectives, becoming parts of our own legacy (our cultural footprints in community): from the multi-cultural experiences and perspectives of composer Roland Vazquez.
Roland Vazquez: Composer, Drummer, Band Leader, Producer, Educator has recorded and performed international concerts and residencies with his acclaimed “Latin rhythmic chamber jazz” for Quintet, Octet, and Big Band since 1979. Recognized as an innovator of Fusion music, and for the dynamic precision of his music which “speaks” as transcriptions of experience and dreams across recent albums: Further Dance, The Visitor, and Revelation (Afro Bop Alliance). Vazquez, a mixed heritage “detribalized” Cahuilla/Nahua/Chicano person, has received awards from the NEA, New Music America, and the Aaron Copland Fund, weaves music containing ancestral and inherited vocabularies. He is currently teaching “Music of the Black Atlantic”, “Afro Caribbean Percussion Ensemble”, and Private Studio Lessons at Bard College; his research on West African and Indigenous music while developing socially-engaged experiences contribute to DEI for those experiencing his music. Apple Music / Roland Vazquez
Roland Vazquez: Composer, Drummer, Band Leader, Producer, Educator has recorded and performed international concerts and residencies with his acclaimed “Latin rhythmic chamber jazz” for Quintet, Octet, and Big Band since 1979. Recognized as an innovator of Fusion music, and for the dynamic precision of his music which “speaks” as transcriptions of experience and dreams across recent albums: Further Dance, The Visitor, and Revelation (Afro Bop Alliance). Vazquez, a mixed heritage “detribalized” Cahuilla/Nahua/Chicano person, has received awards from the NEA, New Music America, and the Aaron Copland Fund, weaves music containing ancestral and inherited vocabularies. He is currently teaching “Music of the Black Atlantic”, “Afro Caribbean Percussion Ensemble”, and Private Studio Lessons at Bard College; his research on West African and Indigenous music while developing socially-engaged experiences contribute to DEI for those experiencing his music. Apple Music / Roland Vazquez
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Episode 1 - Playlist
Miles Davis & Gil Evans, “Miles Ahead”: Springsville - 1957 Erroll Garner, “Concert by the Sea”: I’ll Remember April - 1955 Thelonius Monk & John Coltrane, “Live at Carnegie Hall”: Evidence 1957 Charles Mingus, “Mingus Ah-um”: Fables of Faubus 1959 Eric Dolphy, “Out to Lunch”: Hat and Beard 1964 Mongo Santamaria, “La Bamba”: Summertime 1965 Miles Davis, “Miles Smiles”: Footprints 1966 Wayne Shorter, “Speak no Evil”: Speak No Evil 1966 Freddie Hubbard, “First Light”: First Light 1971 Weather Report, “Heavy Weather”: Palladium 1977 |