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wax poetics - issue 40 - wax poetics - magazines

Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner bares the pleasures and pains of the Ohio Players. Motown co-founder and hitmaker Smokey Robinson ascended soul’s limitations. Detroit collective TRIBE employed jazz to empower the people. Joe Cuba and his Sextet reinvented Latin music many times over. The auspicious apprenticeship of Atlantic Records engineer, Gene Paul. Jazz vibist Johnny Lytle relentlessly went the distance. Plus: Tortoise, Record Rundown with Miles Tackett of Breakestra, Javelin, Gilles Peterson in Havana, and Teddy Pendergrass & Willie Mitchell Remembered