Aquarium Drunkard — Rob Mazurek is building a life’s work. Coming up in the Chicago free music scene, the cornet player and composer has made pioneering music alongside his peers, including Tortoise, Jim O’Rourke, Stereolab, and Jeff Parker, and collaborated with ja... more info

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop Music) Statik Selektah & Quadir Lateef team up to bring Hip-Hop to new life in a new video produced by Clifton Bell. Bar and beats. more info

Core News — “Following the passing of jazz legend Yusef Lateef in December, Gilles went through the innovator’s extensive back-catalogue going all the way back to the 1950s, pulling out some of his personal favourite tracks. Here is part one of Gilles’ tri... more info

Topix — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. more info

Topix — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. more info

Topix — Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker's first collaboration as Latyrx came out 16 years ago an eternity for trend-conscious rappers but the blink of an eye for two guys from the East Bay underground who always seemed to follow their own clocks anyw... more info

Consequence of Sound — 15 years after the hip-hop duo went on hiatus, Lateef and Lyrics Born finally reunite. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Sam Most, considered the first modern jazz flutist, had some unusual talents, one of which was the ability to hum and play notes at the same time. A number of flutists have said he was the first to combine humming and playing, a style that was later ... more info

betterPropoganda — Posted at 2:20pm, 7/26/2012 Blackalicious is announcing the first public release of the classic Melodica EP as well as new music for 2012. The reissue will include the previously unreleased "Changes" produced by DJ Shadow and Chief Xcel which was ... more info

Guardian Music — Thanks to your herculean efforts this week, we can dust off and put on display a rich list of historical recordsIt's been a week of excavation, a playlist painstakingly pieced together with valuable and neglected fragments covered by millennia of dus... more info