greg tate

A new posthumous piece from him now available, on the genius of A.R. Kane

https://www.luakabop.com/products/a-r-kane-americana

He went deep in that

huge wall mural portrait of tate in Brooklyn near BAM, can't seem to find any online pictures for some reason.

Per a tip via unperson's newsletter, a remarkable celebration of him by Vijay Iyer

https://www.movementsjournal.art/volumes/1-dissonance/fanfare-for-a-warrior

That is very nice .

Ah now this is phenomenal!

https://mreeves.substack.com/p/cutting-room-jams-greg-ironman-tate

Earlier this spring, I picked up a collection of back issues of Musician magazine from a person I found on Craigslist. Musician was a favorite of mine growing up and the person, who lived in San Rafael, gave them away for free. Most of the issues were published in the early 80s and included cover stories on Prince, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and others.

Fast forward to October 16, when I caught a post by Michael Gonzales on Twitter/X celebrating the late Greg Tate’s birthday.

When I responded to Gonzales’ post that I found a handful of Tate articles in Musician magazine that I couldn’t find online, he asked me to post them. I refuse to contribute original content to Twitter/X any longer for obvious reasons, so I have posted them here.

Cool, thanks.

Wow!

nice!

Thanks! I think I understand harmolodics slightly better now thanks to his intro in that Tacuma interview.

Does anyone know where Greg Tate's De La Soul piece "Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop" first appeared? I assumed it was in Village Voice, but it's not on their site.

(I know it's in Flyboy in the Buttermilk.)

Writer Michael Gonzales referenced the article in a piece he did, but he doesn’t link or cite specific place where he first read it. He just refers to Tate and the Village Voice

Thankscurmudgeon. All I needed to know was where it first appeared. Weird that it's not on the VV site!

Think it goes back further than the digitized (also the search function on current uh of that site is not always reliable)(which is why I made my own archive of my own VV offerings)

That is, *if* it was published in the Voice---would be 80s-to-early 90s, since Flyboy came out in '92.

Yeah, the Voice website is not 100% reliable (I sometimes find pieces I wrote but they're not archived under my byline) and doesn't contain everything.

I don't remember seeing anything on there from before, say, 1995.

Yeah. The De La review is 1989, so I would have expected to see it on the VV site since there are quite a few of his pieces from the period up there. But it's probably true that the site is not at all exhaustive.