Wax Poetics

Wax Poetics is a quarterly American music magazine dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B in the crate-digger tradition; the name of the magazine is itself an allusion to vinyl records.

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Issue 35 cover artists Roger Troutman and Booker T. Jones were both innovative musicians of extraordinary vision. Each is known for a career defined in part by an instrument. While Troutman took the talk box to the people, Booker T. ruled the Hammond B-3. Also: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Def Jef, E.Z. Mike Simpson, and Ralph Macdonald.

re:Discovery Willie and the Bumblebees, The Joe Cuba Sextet, Jerry Moore, Kip Hanrahan, Alfredo Gutierrez y Los Caporales Del Magdalena Shaolin Soul El Michels Affair Channels the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ruckus Gravitational Pull U.K.’s Broken Keys Forged a Funky Core of Heavy Sounds Organic Synthesis STS9 Integrates the Power of the Computer Into its Live Instrumentation The Hard Way Glass Candy Fights to Shatter Disco’s Stereotypes Daily Operation Lord Finesse is on a Habitual Quest for Musical Knowledge Natural Groove Ralph MacDonald Put His Artistic Touch on Classic Soul and Jazz Sides Soul Current Organist and Memphis Native Booker T. Jones Was the Life Force of the Stax Sound Dynamic Dragon Musician Byron Lee’s Renowned Studio Lit a Fire Under Jamaica’s Music Scene Cold Fusion The Mahavishnu Orchestra Broke New Musical Ground Despite icy Relationships Dusty Fingers Dust Brother E.Z. Mike Simpson Pulls Endless Possibilities From the Funky Past Heavy Rhymes Rapper Def Jef Weighed in with a Conscious Voice The Black Last Supper Thellus Singleton Golden Throat Roger Troutman’s Talk Box Sings the Human body Electric Analog Out Talk Box


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