Mistah Rapsey is my name..
staying underground is the experience..
I’ve been traveling since my youth searching for experiences of truth. An old soul back again to discover what I left uncovered. I love to love and live to laugh. Enrolled in a school called Knowledge of Self. Paying attention is my drug. Learning to live Life like music and flow with the rhythm, careful not to miss a beat. A renaissance man, Life is my art project. An habitual nomad, I roam to evolve. Music and cannabis are my constant companions. Interested in people, i’m always searching for my tribe. The beauty of the wilderness is the closest i’ve come to experiencing Truth.
music, graffiti, vinyl, treeplanting, & mixtapes..
Love is an Action. Love is the Answer. Love is the Movement.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong is the first musician that made me feel and recognize the power of music. Every to this day “What A Wonderful World” played by him give me shivers. He has one of the rawest and most beautiful voices in my opinion. I have to give credit to my dad for introducing me to Louis Armstrong and other great musicians like Van Morisson, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles.
Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong is the first musician that made me feel and recognize the power of music. Every to this day “What A Wonderful World” played by him give me shivers. He has one of the rawest and most beautiful voices in my opinion. I have to give credit to my dad for introducing me to Louis Armstrong and other great musicians like Van Morisson, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles.
Got this record in the mail today from my lovely friend Mica, I am so excited about having this LP in my crates, i have a feeling its going to stay in heavy rotation for the rest of my life. Thank you Mica, you have my love forever!
About Impulse Records and Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked record:
“Impulse dragged jazz into the era of Black Power,” is one writer’s assessment, but Impulse did so much more than reflect a revolutionary age. It also fit perfectly into the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late fifties to the seventies when more jazz players than ever before (or since), representing every era of the tradition, were all alive and active. Think Armstrong to Ayler, the legends to the latest and loudest arrivals.
With a collection of source material that includes George Russell, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, and John Coltrane, among others, the set is already moving in the right direction, but the inventive, sometimes radical reworkings by the likes of Prefuse 73, the RZA, Kid Koala, and Sa Ra put this a cut above your average pedestrian, lounge-vibed, electronica/jazz outing.
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Wikipedia info on Impulse! (very interesting history)
Currently..
Like any list I make, I am sure that I am forgetting people. Also this list is my personal favorites and is not necessarily based on the range or ability of the voice. Now that I have that disclaimer out of the way, let me say I think it is a pretty dope list. Who are your ten?
Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World
I woke today feeling like listening to Louis Armstrong. This is the song that made me fall in love with music and today being my 22nd birthday it felt perfect lying in bed listening to Louis sing. This is the year that I am going to dedicate and push myself to accomplish my dream of being an artist. This line really stuck in my mind and made me smile this morning.
“I see friends shaking hands saying ‘How do you do?’, they’re really saying I love you”
What I be on..
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Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman, Duke Ellington (Paris 1960)
(photo credit Herman Leonard)
I think this is a fantastic photo of Louis and Duke clowning around with Paul Newman. Louis Armstrong and Paul Newman are two of my personal heroes, it is great knowing that they spent time together. I would have loved to have been in Paris in the early 1960’s while they were filming Paris Blues.
What I Be On: Last 3 Months
The Roots- The Roots embody what I like in music therefore they stay in constant rotation. I have been listening to How I Got Over a lot, especially on vinyl.
Atmosphere- I haven’t been listening to a lot of Atmosphere lately but I was heavy into them in September. I have been getting really into Ant’s beats especially the ones on the Sad Clown EP’s.
Louis Armstrong- To me Louis is like the Bob Marley of Jazz because listening to his music always make me feel good.
Madlib- He just has many albums and all of them are dope. You are getting a history of music when you listen to this dude.
De La Soul- I love bumpin’ De La Soul when I’m doing things around the house or just chillin’ because they have such a great vibe. They definitely made some of the greatest hip hop albums ever.
Jay Electronica- This guy is so great to listen to, he feels like someone that is doing some new with his music and rhyme style. He is definitely my favorite emcee at the moment.
Syl Johnson- I love soul and this man has made a lot of great soul music. He has a great voice and the instrumentals are golden as well.
Aloe Blacc- Stonesthrow might just have the tightest roster in the game. They keep attracting/discovering amazing artist.
Pops tells it like it is.
Louis Armstrong // Tight Like This
I’ve been listening to lots of Louis lately and I have a feeling his music is going to stay in heavy rotation all year.
“It strikes me that this was a beautiful recording date because Don Redman came over from Detroit where he was playing at the Greystone Ballroom with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers. In fact, he was the arranger and the leader of that band. And Don, to me, was one of the greatest arrangers I’ve ever met. And in fact, he was one of the first one that I knew that arranged music until I got with Fletcher. We didn’t pay no attention to reading a whole lot of music other than brass band and things like that. And Don Redman came over from Detroit with this tune, ‘Tight Like This.’”
- Louis Armstrong
