By Eva

Published: October 30th, 2006

Getting a chance to sit down and talk with Dave Burrell is kind of like celebrating Christmas and the 4th of July in the same day. It’s not everyday you get a chance to speak with a figure of the jazz revolution. So when you do, you listen, and you listen good. You can learn a lot from a man of Burrells stature. And the chance is really quite the honor.Burgeoning in the jazz scene as a pianist in the early 60’s, Burrell has since released over 100 recordings, including personal works and collaborations with the likes of Archie Shepp, David Murray and Billy Martin. As a wise man soaking up enough cultural hysteria and pulchritude to layer his every ...

By Eva

Published: September 21st, 2006

If you know and love hip-hop as much as you say you do, you’re bound to feel a sense of nostalgia for the music of the 80’s and 90’s. Despite the influx of MC’s spewing out creative (and not so creative) tracks these days, many of us still run our Tribe, Pete Rock and De La albums on the regular. It’s artists like these who have left legacies strong enough to influence the quality seekers of our generation. Enter: Insight. Insight has been described as peripatetic, a word used in regards to Aristotle, who traversed about to share and gain knowledge from those around him. This too, has been the life of Andre Todman, who at the age of five, moved ...