Wax Poetics Issue 32 - Double Cover Edition

This is one of two covers - Sly Stone/Jimmy Cliff

Wax Poetics Issue 32

Issue 32 offers a rare and insightful look at funk visionary Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone. We also follow reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff through a long and textured career which spanned five decades and encompassed several milestones in the music and movie mediums.
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Sly Stone
“I don’t read much of what anybody writes about me, but I know that it’s mostly secondhand stuff that looks like it’s supposed to be firsthand. I don’t know nobody, and nobody knows me, and they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Jimmy Cliff
At last, Jimmy Cliff was off and running, with hit singles at the top of the Jamaican charts. The mode was ska, and the music forceful and bright.

Ahmad Jamal
In 1958, a Pittsburgh-born pianist named Ahmad Jamal recorded a show tune entitled “Poinciana” at a venue called the Pershing Lounge. His elegant pianisms transformed that song into something rare for the jazz world—a hit record.

George Clinton - Ain’t That Peculiar ft. Sly Stone and El Debarge / audio

Here’s one of the first leaks from George Clinton’s new album, “George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love.” Due out September 16th.

Clinton - Ain’t That Peculiar ft. Sly Stone and El Debarge

What is there left for the North Cackalackee-born grandfather of funk to do after four decades of rockin’ steady on the one? He can dip back to an era of sweet street corner soul that was his initial inspiration, take some folks back into time while blowing their minds THIS TIME with new spins on the standards - with a mothership full of special guests that completely have his back! We’re talkin’ Carlos Santana, Sly Stone, El DeBarge, Kim Burrell, the RZA (of Wu Tang Clan), Shavon (from System of a Down) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers - not to mention P-Funk stalwarts such as Belita Woods and Gary Shider! It’s a concept he calls George Clinton and His Gangsters Of Love, produced by Bobby Eli and George Clinton - a blue light grind in da basement that marks the first in a series of special projects for Shanachie Entertainment.