Richmond gets it. More than any other city in Virginia. So here’s Weekend Frequency, a reader-curated playlist built for the city, by the city.
This week’s mix comes from RVA Magazine directly. A jazz playlist from our co-publisher and editor-at-large, Landon Shroder, to help break the summer heat, steady the mind, and remind us that resistance always has a rhythm.
“There’s this idea I keep circling: That to be fully realized, you have to successfully internalize John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. There’s obviously no right way to engage with the music you love; we each express that love in our own unique way. Yet Coltrane’s ability to collapse time and space into a singular piece of art this transcendental, reflects a supreme universality that we’re not altogether worthy of—not yet, anyways.
With that in mind, we wanted to curate a jazz playlist that reflects this new era of uncertainty in America— an era that would feel deeply familiar to the jazz legends you’ll find here, whose music offered a language of defiance and spiritual clarity that was carved from the chaos of their own time.”
Weekend Frequency is part revival, part continuation of our long-running RVA Mag Weekend Playlists which started before the world flipped upside down. Dig into the full archive here.
Want to curate your own playlist? Email us at hello@rvamag.com with Weekend Frequency in the subject line.
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