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JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends
By Justin De La Rosa (Published in the Local-iQ on Wednesday, December 21st 2011)
The music industry is in a bit of a funk, and has been for years now. This is leading musicians and artists to take things into their own hands for a little DIY movement that is becoming unique to each community. Verse by verse, Hakim Bellamy (AKA Hakim Be) and friends are putting together a throwback to the jazz era with a monthly poetry and hip hop night at downtown’s only jazz bar.
This won’t just be nights of people in a dark room, snapping their fingers along to a walking bass line while some guy with a goatee and beret makes incomprehensible analogies. It will be nights of soulful selections by some of the Duke City’s best poets and hip hop artists who know their foundations are in ’50s jazz.
Bellamy is not only a hip hop emcee, but also a published poet. He has organized this night not only to spice things up at an already swanky bar, but to shed a little light on the significance of jazz in the future of hip hop music.
“We don’t bridge the gap between hip hop and jazz, we eliminate it,” Bellamy said.
JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends
7 and 9p, Tue., Jan. 3
Jazzbah119 Gold SW, 505.243.5299
$12 (2 shows)
jazzbahabq.com
