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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 Jazzbah 119 Gold SW, 505.243.5299$12 (2 shows) jazzbahabq.com




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
Jazzbah
119 Gold SW, 505.243.5299
$12 (2 shows)
jazzbahabq.com
1 month ago 6 notes
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Along with Jessica Helen Lopez, Levi Romero, Lisa Gill and Carlos Contreras I was featured in New Mexico The Magazine this month (Click through the photo above to go to New Mexico the Magazine). Honored to be in such esteemed company. Written by a distinguished poet herself, Michelle Otero. Photographed in a day long excursion during Pride Parade with Karen Kuehn. Good times. Pick up the September issue and let New Mexico the Magazine know you like seeing poets in between the sheets (Yeah baby, yah!)

Along with Jessica Helen Lopez, Levi Romero, Lisa Gill and Carlos Contreras I was featured in New Mexico The Magazine this month (Click through the photo above to go to New Mexico the Magazine). Honored to be in such esteemed company. Written by a distinguished poet herself, Michelle Otero. Photographed in a day long excursion during Pride Parade with Karen Kuehn. Good times. Pick up the September issue and let New Mexico the Magazine know you like seeing poets in between the sheets (Yeah baby, yah!)

6 months ago 1 notes
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New Hakim Be & Diles!!! Check out “Fire Sale” on Gut Feeling. For the beatminers you can also get Gut Feeling (Instrumentals) at Bandcamp. Click through the cover art above and you can listen to Fire Sale and see more production by Diles! www.visceralview.com

New Hakim Be & Diles!!! Check out “Fire Sale” on Gut Feeling. For the beatminers you can also get Gut Feeling (Instrumentals) at Bandcamp. Click through the cover art above and you can listen to Fire Sale and see more production by Diles! www.visceralview.com

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Do You Believe in Love @ Church of Beethoven April 16th, 2011

7 months ago 1 notes

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Hip Hop Theater + Band + Beer = www.urbanverbs.org

Live Art, Choreography, Music, VIdeo, Poetry, Theater, Beer, Band, Words, Verbs…Urban Verbs 2 The Filling Station tonight @ 8pm. www.urbanverbs.com #urbanverbs #NM #poetry

8 months ago 39 notes

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I am embarking on my second column in The Perspective II Magazine here in Albuquerque, NM. The only African American community publication in the Duke City. Editor Ron Wallace is a frat brother of mine and a retired City of Albuquerque employee (Gang Intervention), but he is more famously known as a start UNM Football Athlete from back in the day and now “the guy you see at every community event taking pictures” as he is not only the editor-in-chief of The Perspective, but also the chief photog. Look for the NM Perspective II Magazine at Black businesses and churches in Albuquerque as well as the NM Office of African American Affairs, 1015 Tijeras NW, Suite 102, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Copies are free, but you should advertise in the magazine to keep it that way!

I am embarking on my second column in The Perspective II Magazine here in Albuquerque, NM. The only African American community publication in the Duke City. Editor Ron Wallace is a frat brother of mine and a retired City of Albuquerque employee (Gang Intervention), but he is more famously known as a start UNM Football Athlete from back in the day and now “the guy you see at every community event taking pictures” as he is not only the editor-in-chief of The Perspective, but also the chief photog. Look for the NM Perspective II Magazine at Black businesses and churches in Albuquerque as well as the NM Office of African American Affairs, 1015 Tijeras NW, Suite 102, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Copies are free, but you should advertise in the magazine to keep it that way!

9 months ago 5 notes
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