Welcome to Sound Projections

I'm your host Kofi Natambu. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one we're living in) as well as that of the historical past. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. I'm also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture.

Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of ‘Jazz’, ‘classical music’, ‘Blues.’ 'Rhythm and Blues’, ‘Rock and Roll’, ‘Pop’, ‘Funk’, ‘Hip Hop’, etc. in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do cretively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be.

So please join me in this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities.

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Julius Eastman (1940-1990): Legendary, iconic, and innovative musician, composer, arranger, singer, ensemble leader, producer, music theorist, and teacher


SOUND PROJECTIONS



AN ONLINE QUARTERLY MUSIC MAGAZINE



EDITOR:  KOFI NATAMBU



SPRING, 2019



VOLUME SEVEN    NUMBER ONE

WADADA LEO SMITH
 
Featuring the Musics and aesthetic Visions of:

CINDY BLACKMAN
(March 23-29)

RUTH BROWN
(March 30-April 6)

JOHN LEWIS
(April 7-13)


JULIUS EASTMAN
(April 14-20)

PUBLIC ENEMY
(April 21-27)

WALLACE RONEY
(April 28-May 4)

MODERN JAZZ QUARTET
(May 5-11)

DE LA SOUL
(May 12-18)

KATHLEEN BATTLE
(May 19-25)

JULIA PERRY
(May 26-June 1)

HALE SMITH
(June 2-8)

BIG BOY CRUDUP
(June 9-15)