"If the music was changing, why wasn’t the format of the jazz magazine shifting around?” Straight from the mind of polymath musician/artist Jason Moran comes a new kind of music publication. Looking at jazz culture from an African American perspective, LOOP features the voices of Moran, his friends, family, and collaborators, including Matana Roberts, Kendrick Scott, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Greg Tate, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. In cooperation with the artist and Luhring Augustine, the Walker Art Center is honored to host LOOP—its inaugural issue, originally published in 2016, and all future ones—in digital form right here on Walker Reader.
"The mysteries are received only by sitting at the feet of the masters." Cassandra Wilson on her jazz lineage, in the inaugural issue of LOOP, Jason Moran's new magazine.
"The bridge represents me realizing that I am way too young to be feeling like this anyway." From the inaugural issue of LOOP, Jason Moran's new jazz magazine, Raven Moran shares a new score.
"I have known people who had all the cash in the world but didn’t have a clue about putting together a killing outfit." In the inaugural issue of LOOP, Jason Moran's new jazz magazine, Jamaaladeen Tacuma shares his passion for vintage fashion.
In the inaugural issue of LOOP, Jason Moran's new jazz magazine, JD Allen and Eric Revis share their ghost stories about a Brooklyn apartment they lived in together.
"I love to get up early for a flight: something about the day waiting to unfold recharges me." Kendrick Scott reflects on a recent trip to Orvieto, Italy.
A Few Preparatory Remarks About What Happened When Freedom Swang Smashed into the Electrifying Mojo
"In a world where lynching is tacitly legal, Black lawbreaking is damn near compulsory and emancipatory—especially in music." From the inaugural issue of LOOP, Jason Moran's jazz magazine, a new writing by Greg Tate.
From LOOP, Jason Moran's new jazz magazine, Moran and Matana Roberts discuss Coin Coin, Marie Therese Metoyer, a freed slave and businesswoman who helped establish a Creole community in Louisiana—and an ongoing inspiration for Roberts.
