Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Composer”

Episode 269: ENCORE Episode: On Mythology and Humanity's "Ever Fonky Lowdown" with Wynton Marsalis

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast, after the inspiring conversation in our last episode with Wesley Watkins about The Jazz & Democracy Project and more, I couldn’t resist giong back into the GC archives for an encore presentation of my conversation with Maestro Wynton Marsalis. We recorded this conversation when the podcast was just a toddler, back in the days when we were just “doing something” and not yet “manifesting a new world.” It was also on the eve of the 2020 election, however, like so many of our conversations the topics and insights remain evergreen. How far we’ve come and continue to carry on!

Check out the original show notes for more on his bio and topics of interest.

Where to find Wynton?
www.wyntonmarsalis.org
The Jazz @ Lincoln Center Orchestra
On YouTube
On Facebook
On Instagram
On Spotify

What’s Wynton reading?
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World by Christina Proenza-Coles
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Special Guest: Wynton Marsalis.

Episode 141: Drumming and Dancing in Academia with Farai Malianga Part 2

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week's episode is home grown in a sense as I had the chance to chat with long-time friend and collaborator, Farai Malianga. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Farai's journey to the US found him at the University in Colorado in Boulder where our stories connect. He is a Videographer, Composer, and Musician who began his career in African Dance in Colorado with Leticia Williams’ Harambee and Musical Director Judy “Fatu” Henderson. He later relocated to New York where he began studying dance and drum with pioneers Yousouf Koumbasa, Mbemba Bangoura and Ronald K. Brown. He has performed with creative Masters such as Chuck Davis in BAMs ‘Dance Africa’, Reginald Yates and Heritage O.P. for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s their 40th Anniversary season; with musicians such as Roy Ayers, Wunmi Olaiya,, Manchild Black, and Akua Allrich to name a few. He has also performed on and off broadway in the musical 'Fela!' and “Darker Faces of the Earth” directed by Trezana Beverley, respectively. As a videographer, most recent projects include editing the archival documentary for “Kumbuka” the longest active New Orleans-based West African Dance troupe.

This fall he joins Florida State University as a tenure track Professor with a focus on music for dance and choreography. He will be teaching Rhythmic Analysis, Music for Choreography, and Digital Audio Recording while also providing music support for African, Dunham and Contemporary classes. We definitely have something to look forward to seeing Farai's work flourish on a whole new level in this role!

Where to find Farai?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Farai reading?
Octavia E. Butler

What's Farai listening to?
Kendrick Lamar
J. Cole
Pharoahe Monch

Other topics of interest:
Regional Dance America
Ronald K. Brown
Scott Russel Sanders
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Beatrice Capote
Onye P. Ozuzu
Camille A. Brown
Christal Brown
The Shift Network
Amiri Baraka
The Lay Out
About LEAP Transmedia

Special Guest: Farai Malianga.

Episode 140: Drumming and Dancing in Academia with Farai Malianga Part 1

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Where to find Farai?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Farai reading?
Octavia E. Butler

What's Farai listening to?
Kendrick Lamar
J. Cole
Pharoahe Monch

Special Guest: Farai Malianga.

Episode 47: On Mythology and Humanity's "Ever Fonky Lowdown" with Wynton Marsalis

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0500

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week I had the great treat of meeting the Maestro Wynton Marsalis, managing and artistic director of Jazz @ Lincoln Center which he co-founded in 1987. He's produced more than 100 recordings, he's a nine-time Grammy Award winner, he's an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. Wynton has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. He is a native of the birthplace of jazz, the New Orleans, Louisiana, which he left in 1979 to attend The Julliard School in New York City. He continues to call New York home but his reach is indeed global!

Where to find Wynton?
www.wyntonmarsalis.org
The Jazz @ Lincoln Center Orchestra
On YouTube
Wednesdays with Wynton and Skain's Domain On Facebook
On Instagram
On Twitter
On Spotify

What’s Wynton reading?
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World by Christina Proenza-Coles
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Other topics of interest—
• Congo Square
• Congo Square the Album
• Yacub Abby and Odadaa!
• The Ever Fonky Lowdown
• Fannie Lou Hammer
• From Plantation to Penitentiary
• All Rise
• Blood on the Fields
• Thandi Ntuli
• Nduduzo Makhathini
• The Essentially Ellington Jazz Academy
• The Tanglewood Music Center

Special Guest: Wynton Marsalis.