Brian DiGenti

Cofounder and former editor of Wax Poetics @waxpoetics / University of Florida grad

[Wax Poetics @waxpoetics]

Fuzzy Haskins continues his cosmic journey in the next realm. He left his mark on this one.

[Jesse Serwer @JesseSerwer]

One of my favorite print stories I've ever written is now online for the first time @waxpoetics:
https://t.co/hsbuOJOiCK #funkinforjamaica #jamaicaqueens

[Wax Poetics @waxpoetics]

Rest easy, Lamont Dozier, natural born hitmaker.

[Brian DiGenti @BDigenti]

Sotheby’s:

https://t.co/rtX4VN7jUb

[Wax Poetics @waxpoetics]

When James Mtume passed on January 9, it took a mapmaker to craft an obit. Wax Poetics spoke with three musicians/composers with whom Mtume played, on their records and his, each with their own funny and frank visions of what their friend, meant to them.

https://t.co/l21Rdr6FQH

[Wax Poetics @waxpoetics]

Another bomb from the vaults. Street Time presents the unsung rhythmic soul behind Miles's improvisational funk. 
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Essential reading. Live now. ​
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​Words by Tom Terrell
​📸 Michael Henderson and Miles at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1973.
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https://t.co/akCCqGpz8N

[Wax Poetics @waxpoetics]

RIP, Syl Johnson. Losing the legends is never easy. From our archives, the 2010 Wax Poetics interview by Matt Rogers: https://t.co/iHfs9Z7a5H

[Brian DiGenti @BDigenti]

RIP, Steve Schapiro. Amazing photographer and person. We interviewed him in Issue 65 when he released his book on David Bowie.

[Bootsy Collins @Bootsy_Collins]

We lost one of the greatest Drummer that ever played with James Brown. Mr. Melvin Parker, brother to Maceo Parker. In 1964 Melvin played on three of Brown's recordings: "Out of Sight," "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag," and "I Got You (I Feel Good). Condolences to the Parker family🙏

[Brian DiGenti @BDigenti]

Read some of these today.

[Touré @Toure]

When I was in my early 20s I used to call Greg Tate on a Friday or Saturday night with nothing to say and he’d just talk for 2-3 hours and he was mentoring me without overtly mentoring, I would just ask him about writing and music and culture and just trry to soak in his genius.

[Dan Charnas @dancharnas]

Taught us, tolerated us
Celebrated us, reminded us
Disciplined us, guided us,
Encouraged us, launched us,
Always up ahead of us.

Greg Tate.

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

no language for how thankful I am to have lived in a time where I could learn from Greg Tate. Absolutely devastated by this loss.

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

Greg Tate, from "Love And The Enemy," 1991.

[Jeff Chang @zentronix]

Papa Greg Tate has joined the ancestors. The Godfather of hip-hop criticism. An expansive, gentle soul. His only violence was intellectual. (& it was beautiful & most of them folks deserved it!) He taught me/all of us so many things about so many things. Thank you, Greg.

[Brian DiGenti @BDigenti]

RIP Gift of Gab https://t.co/SVxmD1vZxG

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

"Young, Gifted & Black" -- Nina Simone on @SesameStreet

https://t.co/lZcthQTCXu

#BlackMusicMonth

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

It's almost Fathers Day. Rather than celebrating, I will spend Fathers Day working to prevent other dads from losing children to gun violence. I need your help sending a message to DC. Let's make #DadsForGunSafety the biggest # of all time with 1,000,000 RT's. Let's do this.