Eric Dolphy, Bobby Hutcherson, Ornette Coleman, Joe Chambers, and Ron Carter are all featured in the journal. When flipping through Issue 34 (The Jazz Issue), I came across many heroes of mine within its pages. In 2008 I came across the brief game-changing Stop Smiling Magazine. With that said, it is the perfect set up for the project they would release a few months later.Ĭheck out Moment of Change on Bandcamp. The pair harken back to my first memories of hearing Guru & Preem, Pete & C.L., and even Trane & Ali. With only eight tunes, the listener can be assured that not a second is wasted. The lyrics and production are top-notch and the amount of space given between the two is perfect. Moment of Change’s 33-minute journey is like a cum laude victory lap.
Maybe the loneliness of the pandemic opened me up to new voices, or perhaps I was dying for a loving hug from another Black man that understood my experiences, but the vocalist Raw Poetic (Jason Moore) gave me a breath I’ve been struggling to catch for 39 years. It was the first of his records featuring an emcee I decided to listen to. After catching myself up on some of his instrumental albums I put on the appropriately title Moment of Change (Redefinition, 2020). Yet, I had been guilty of not sitting myself down and spending time with his work until earlier this year. His numerous singles and LPs have been circulating around the internet for quite some time. I’d been familiar with the name Damu the Fudgemunk (Earl Davis) for years.
In many ways, it feels like a terrible time to write record reviews, but I love all of these brothers involved and feel that the beauty in what they have shared with us is essential. It has been a big-trying-ass-year for Black folk, and what we are experiencing isn’t new. But I think when we enter into the realm of true folk music – which I think is the basis of so-called art music – then the performer has a duty to himself, to be honest to self as well as to the people he is performing for.” - Archie Shepp (Coda Magazine, 1980) Moment of Change And in fact, the other thing about being honest to himself doesn’t have to enter into it at all. So he thinks first and foremost of making the audience happy. “The primary duty of an entertainer is to entertain.
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