Practical Criticism, No. 70: Roy Hargrove and the RH Factor
In episode no. 70 of Practical Criticism, Ajay surprises Rebecca with Roy Hargrove and the RH Factor’s “Out of Town,” off the 2003 record Hard Groove. The discussion includes a dive deep into jazz-hip-hop experiments, varieties and suspicions of musical fusion, caesuras and polyharmonies, the dissonant and the antiphonal, “open-eared moonlighting,” and hybridity without history.
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