Milford Graves is steps away
Milford Graves and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series. By this m.o., writers, musicians, filmmakers, quiltmakers, dancers, painters, multimedia artists, architects, sound designers, chefs, producers et al (see categories) across the planet are within close, discoverable steps of each other, and most of the world as well. 100% AI FREE
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Why again is Milford Graves mere steps away from all other artists in here, and by extension, everybody on the planet?
WHO IS CURATING FROM HERE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: The Matrix via ↴
Artist & Where
- Name: Milford Graves
- City/Place: New York City
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Milford Graves (b. 1941, Jamaica, Queens) is a percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, and professor.
A pioneer of free Jazz, Graves was a member of the New York Art Quartet, whose iconic first recording in 1964 featured LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) reading his poem "Black Dada Nihilismus." In 1967, he played at John Coltrane’s funeral. A consummate autodidact with a syncretic approach, Graves invented a martial art form called Yara based on the movements of the Praying Mantis, African ritual dance, and Lindy Hop in 1972. Shortly thereafter, Graves joined the Black Music Division at Bennington College, where he taught for 39 years and is now Professor Emeritus.
In 2000 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and began to study human heart vibrations to better understand music’s healing potential, and in 2015 he received the Doris Duke Foundation Impact Award.
He is the subject of a critically acclaimed, feature-length documentary, Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018), directed by his former student, Jake Meginsky, with Neil Young.
Additional notable recordings include In Concert At Yale University (with Don Pullen, 1966); Dialogue of the Drums (with Andrew Cyrille, 1974); Babi (1977); Meditation Among Us (1977); Real Deal (with David Murray, 1992); Grand Unification (1998); Beyond Quantum (with Anthony Braxton and William Parker, 2008); and Space/Time Redemption (with Bill Laswell, 2014)
He continues to live and work in South Jamaica, Queens in the home that formerly belonged to his grandmother.
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: fullmantismovie
- ▶ Instagram: fullmantismovie
- ▶ Website: http://www.milfordgraves.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://www.fullmantis.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdhxmsyD5BAVX7iDQh6U3yA
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCdhxmsyD5BAVX7iDQh6U3yA
- ▶ Vimeo Channel: http://vimeo.com/user77121745
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/48yOX2StApgDLDxrQB4FL2
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1b3L4iZKFE5cDOT1bb1jkk
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3uGGfXaGmJqg79zmbze4P2
Clips (more may be added)
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Milford Graves Full Mantis - trailer | IFFR 2018
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Milford Graves: Sounding the Universe
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Milford Graves Quartet 1973
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Milford Graves Full Mantis
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ABOUT THE MATRIX
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It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
