melvin gibbs

Since the late ’70s, the bassist Melvin Gibbs has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly all of popular music. Now he’s sharing his findings in a new book. nyti.ms/4sXxlwY

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Melvin Gibbs follows up the low-end abstractions of his 2022 album with an dynamic amalgam of avant-club music, post-vaporwave prog, and electrifying jazz fusion pitchfork.visitlink.me/YDoyhu

“Postmodern future funk rock”: Melvin Gibbs reviewed The latest project from bassist Melvin Gibbs updates the bold collage techniques of 1970s Miles Davis and Teo Macero, writes Phil Freeman in The Wire 500 thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…

PRE-ORDER: 'Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2' by Melvin Gibbs A time-bending large-ensemble work that fuses recordings from 2006–2025 into a mosaic inspired by Miles Davis’s Agharta. @HausuMountain normanrecords.com/records/211354…

Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 holy shit this goes hard. I'm talking like Agharta, Dark Magus levels of cosmic, rip-roaring funky jazz fusion, esp on the 13 min "Luigi Takes a Walk" feat. Pete Cosey, John Medeski & Greg Fox. unbelievable stuff, keep it on yr radar.

@melvingibbs Braxton's Tri Axium Writings and a lot of interesting stuff in Zorn's Arcana collections. George Lewis included