The Bronx Boheme
BRONX BOHEME is the inter-disciplinary creative world of MWALIM DaPhunkee Professor, named for his place of physical birth and initial place of artistic development, Bronx, NY. MWALIM has distinguished himself in music, theater, and literature as a creative force. Below is his novel, LAND of the BLACK Squirrels as well as his recordings.
Soul - Funk - Jazz House
MWALIM’s music: is it soul, jazz, funk, house, rock, or hip-hop? The answer is “Yes”. When you point of entrance into the music industry was as a studio session player, your sense of commitment to a single genre tends to be over-shadowed by the chameleon-like, code-switching requirements of your job.
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LAND of the BLACK SQUIRRELS
A Bronx Boheme Novel by Mwalim
Land of the Black Squirrels is the first book in the Bronx Boheme literary series (Thirty-three Pages publishing). “The Bronx Boheme” made its debut at the Book Seller in Cambridge, MA in 1993 at a Brother Blue Storytelling session; and again 10 years later at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe in New York City as a long-form storytelling and jazz piece.
In Land of the Black Squirrels, Master storyteller, Mwalim weaves a vibrant and epic Hip-Hop Jazz folktale about the spirits that dwell within the jazz clubs, and old lofts turned into underground dance clubs, art galleries and performance spaces around New York City.