Meshell Ndegeocello opens the lid on her self-contained world Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artist Realness is a root position in The Omnichord Real Book, Meshell Ndegeocello's expansive yet interior new album. Ndegeocello, whose father was an accomplished saxophonist in U.S. Army bands, tends to hold the word "jazz" at arm's length — …
Meshell Ndegeocello, 'Virgo' When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness YouTube A few years ago, in a catalog essay for a major exhibition of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, critic Greg Tate cast a sidelong glance at the voguish recent turn for Afrofuturism, a creative mode that took shape on the margins before accruing its cultural and literal …
