Louis Armstrong Archives

Mixtape Premiere: Fort Knox Recordings’ Funk the World 03

Jay Clue: Funk the World 03 (Fort Knox)

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In late 2011, “renegade funk ‘n’ soul” label Fort Knox Recordings launched a monthly mixtape series titled Funk the World. The first part of the series was presented by the label’s own Fort Knox Five and included an eclectic mix of world-music artists among remixes of songs by Fred Astaire and Louis Armstrong.

This month’s mixtape is presented by DJ Jay Clue (of QDUP Foundation) and features the likes of Gogol Bordello, Tim Tim, and The Correspondents, among others. You can listen to the entire mix here and read on for the full tracklisting.

Krallice: Classically Inspired, Ambient Black Metal

The members of Krallice come from a variety of backgrounds — math metal, punk jazz, death metal — but their outgrowth of black metal in a community where the genre is lacking is reminiscent of the jazz era, when new sounds were pouring out of Queens, NY.

Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was a: jazz legend, marijuana supporter (he smoked every day), slang inventor (he is cited as the first to use the terms cats, chops, daddy, jive, mellow, pops, scat, solid), actor (he appeared in over thirty films), writer, barrier-crosser, and, as author Steven Brower points out in the introduction to Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong (Abrams, 256 pages, $35), a talented and dedicated collagist.

Mahalia Jackson Theater Reopens for Inspiring Night of New Orleans Jazz

ALARM contributor Michael Dunaway spent much of last Thursday driving to New Orleans from Atlanta. Once in town, he witnessed an inspirational night of music for the reopening of the Mahalia Jackson Theater — and he also got a quote from the embattled city’s mayor.