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Toure Show

James Mtume - I Am Music

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Toure Show Ep 168: James Mtume–I Am Music Original Air Date: August 21, 2020 The legendary James Mtume passed away recently so let’s throwback to our 2021 convo with the musician who played with Miles Davis and made “Juicy Fruit” which became the basis for Biggie’s “Juicy.” He’s got all kinds of stories about his incredible life in music. He will be missed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock

0:07.9

Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,

0:14.4

playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.

0:18.3

Here we go!

0:19.3

I'm for a drum and bass!

0:21.3

Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! Open for fun!

0:27.0

Terms apply 18 plus. Please play safely. Bye. Miles Davis was the most unique human being I had ever been around or have ever been around in my life.

0:52.0

One thing I tell you about Miles,

0:53.8

whatever he told you, that's what he meant.

0:56.5

You know, if yes was yes, no was really no.

0:59.9

But the lessons that I learned from my conversations

1:03.6

was like, he would tell me things about the utilization of space.

1:08.1

Like don't play all the time.

1:09.8

Lay out.

1:10.6

Let the music breathe.

1:12.2

What you don't play is more important than what you play.

1:14.0

When you cross the bridge, burn it. So you can't even go back to something old. And that was his

1:19.8

quest was always pressing the boundaries. One day I was laughing I said, man, well you

1:24.6

know you play like you don't have a rearview mirror. He said, yeah, I don't

1:28.9

want to see what I've passed. You know, me, gotta keep going forward. Don't look back.

1:33.4

And I think I tried to do that as I moved out of like avant-garde jazz

1:39.0

and through my pop and on be in funk career.

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