Wax Poetics

Title: Issue #29
Format: Magazine

- Israeli multi-instrumentalist Kuti Man gets Inspired
- Planlife's Jack Splash cultivates homegrown formula for success
- Ocote Soul Sounds fosters folk traditions
- Chicago expats bring spiritual soul to the Holy Land
- The musical liberation of funky Lagos
- Overshadowed producer K-Def makes noise with his MPC
- Back to basics with Pete Rock
- The Cinematic Orchestra sets the mood with sound noir
- Lee Fields rediscovers new ways to make his music
- Jazzman Sam Rivers helmed the New York loft scene and charted a new direction for big band
- Composer and jazz pianist Lalo Schifrin harmonizing with his musical surroundings
- Herbie Hancock and his Mwandishi band explored the funky outer limits of the avant-garde
- Spoonie Gee delivered some of Rap's first urban sermons
- Saxaphonist Cedric Brooks weaves the rebelious history of Jamaica into his music
- Freddy Fresh produces the encyclopedia of rap records
- As Jackson Conti, Madlib & Mamao craft a stellar Brazillian record

Hip-Hop is a musical and cultural archive, it's foundation rich with Jazz, Soul, and Funk. Since 2001, Wax Poetics has been hailled as no magazine's equal in its fresh approach to independent music journalism. Staunchly unique in quality and focus, Wax Poetics is a classic in it's own time, rigorously exploring the musical legacy of our past and revealing it's relevance for today's reader. Wax Poetics is a high caliber music journal focusing on Hip-Hop's brilliant evolution-from its birth as a collision of classic Disco, Soul, Jazz, and Funk, to its present domination of contemporary music culture and its limitless future as a popular art form. Wax Poetics delivers a unique mix of content that includes compelling interviews with famous and forgotten Jazz, Funk, and Soul artists, as well as profiles of the most innovative and historically relevant Hip-Hop and dance producers, DJ's, and artists worldwide.