Call me Roy. The lo-fi picture left of center includes me on Jack Wright’s soprano saxophone. Jack Wright on someone’s trombone. Others preparing for the memorial procession…
Just Us Crows: Interview and Composition
Usually I am away from home playing for familiar faces; someone else records it and I decide to share the better parts on the internet in an…
REVIEW|PREVIEW: Mankwe Ndosi’s Ancient to December Great Black Music Mondays at Icehouse in Mpls.
As artists, and with each humiliation to our fragile egos, we are reminded of the professional class of musicians’ choice to prostrate themselves before an economy that…
As Panelist at Black in The Middle: The Inaugural Black Midwest Symposium
On October 19th I sat on a panel formed by Chaun Webster featuring radio host Lissa Jones, history professor Keith Mayes, writer and City Councilwoman Andrea Jenkins,…
Improvisation & Black Cultural Praxis in the Upper-Midwest
Between May 16 and 19, the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) hosted it’s annual conference at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. Upon hearing about the planned conference,…
Review of David Boykin’s “The Lynching of (Insert the Name of Any White Killer of an Unarmed Black Here)”
Poems are bullshit unless they are Teeth or trees or lemons piled On a step. –Amiri Baraka, “Black Art” Language is the fetish that is supposed to…
French Immersion Complete
If there’s a gap between theory and practice, No Territory Band is now the Coyote hanging between a parting landmass, somehow subducted by the Roadrunner. In the…
An Interview with the French Newspaper, L’Echo
No Territory Band will make its premiere at Festival Kind of Belou in Treignac, France, on Sunday, August 5th. Isabelle Haderer of L’Echo asked Davu to give…
More on “Dead King Mother”
What a terrible thing to set to music. I admit that I am a sucker for the sensational—particularly tall tales of bad men and anti-heroes wreaking havoc…
“Dead King Mother”
Fire in the sky no water in sight– all I want is my man, but he can’t be here passed tonight. On the evening April 4th, 1968,…