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December 7, 2010

Bob Marley’s Family Launches 1Love.org to Promote Unity Awareness

The Marley Family Launches The Marley Missions & The Giving Center from 1Love.org

 

Global Movement Spreads Bob Marley’s Message of Unity and Peace, Encourages New Generation of “Young Gongs” to Change the World

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Bob
Marley believed he could make the world a better place through his
music. Now, his heirs are working to multiply his good works through 1Love.org, a global social community to promote unity, peace and positive global change. 1Love.org-supported
charities currently include The United National Environment Programme
(UNEP), Charity: Water, Invisible Children, and the African Leadership
Academy.

As part of the global movement, 1Love.org
today unveiled two platforms that offer a new generation of “young
gongs” a way to spread Bob Marley’s message and strike the hammer for
charities, causes and ideas that can change the world. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh Drops New Jazz Trio Album, “I Will Follow You”

Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh Releases Trio Album, “I Will Follow You” (Bee Jazz) – December 7, 2010


French-born,
Brooklyn-based tenor and soprano saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh brings his
singular vision to the fertile ground of improvised music. Bolstered by
the broad color palate of virtuosic guitarist and longtime collaborator
Ben Monder, and the masterful rhythmic orchestration of legendary
drummer Daniel Humair, Sabbagh’s lyricism and glowing sound serve as
beacons in an improvised journey at once hauntingly beautiful and
aggressively unhinged.

I Will Follow You follows three critically
acclaimed efforts as a leader. North (voted Best CD of 2005 by the
readers of French monthly magazine Jazzman) and Pogo (four stars in
DownBeat) both feature Sabbagh’s uncanny, song-like compositions and
lush tone, in a quartet that includes Monder, bassist Joe Martin, and
drummer Ted Poor. One Two Three (four stars in DownBeat), an album of
standards played in the totemic sax-bass-drums instrumentation pioneered
by Sonny Rollins, features bassist Ben Street and drummer Rodney Green.
I Will Follow You represents a bold departure from the more controlled
settings of these albums, yet retains the lyricism, clarity of purpose,
and melodic flair that are the hallmarks of the saxophonist’s style. To continue, Please click “MORE”!

Hit-Making Songwriter Claude Kelly Receives Grammy® Nomination for Fantasia’s “Bittersweet”

HIT-MAKING SONGWRITER CLAUDE KELLY RECEIVES GRAMMY® AWARD NOMINATION FOR PENNING FANTASIA’S “BITTERSWEET”

December 2, 2010 (New York, NY) – Last night marked yet another milestone for hit-making songwriter Claude “Studio Beast” Kelly, who received his career-first GRAMMY® Award nomination in the Best R&B Song category for co-writing Fantasia’s “Bittersweet”
with Charles Harmon.  Known for penning numerous chart-topping hits
including Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You,” Miley
Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.,” Britney Spears’ “Circus,” Jason Derulo’s
“In My Head,” and Ke$ha’s “Take It Off,” the Studio Beast’s work in 2010
with Fantasia has proved to be no different.  Together, he and Fantasia
are nominated for three awards (one and two, respectively).  The 53rd
Annual GRAMMY® Awards air live February 13, 2011 from Los Angeles, CA on
CBS. To Continue, Please click “MORE”!

Jazz Vocalist Gregory Porter Receives Grammy® Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Gregory Porter’ s Debut, Water, Receives GRAMMY® Nomination as Best Jazz Vocal Album


A scant six months after the release of his debut album, Water, vocalist Gregory Porter has been nominated in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category of the 53rd Annual Grammy® Awards. Porter has received raves internationally for Water,
which cracked the JazzWeek  Top 10 radio chart shortly after its May
release, and which has been selling briskly in the US and Europe.  AllMusic.com
called Gregory “an absolute showstopper of personalized soul” and
Straight No Chaser declared, “Simply put, Gregory Porter may be our next
great jazz singer.” Porter continues to gain consistent praise as one
of the best male vocalists on the scene today, with comparisons to Joe
Williams, Nat King Cole and Donny Hathaway.  Water is also being singled
out on several “Best Of 2010” year-end lists.


For the recording of Water,
Porter tapped a powerful cadre of players, among them the iconic alto
sax player James Spaulding (Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, and Bobby
Hutcherson, et al,) who plays a featured role on two tracks: “Wisdom”
and “Black Nile.”  The CD was produced by saxophonist, pianist and
composer Kamau Kenyatta, and features seven stellar original
compositions by Porter that range in style from velvet jazz ballads to
the searing soul anthem “1960 What, which has been storming radio
airwaves.  To Continue, Please click “MORE”!

Wyclef Jean Releases New 6 Track EP called, “If I Were President: My Haitian Experience” on Dec. 7th, 2010

If I Were President: My Haitian Experience, the New Six Song EP From Wyclef Jean, Available on the iTunes Store

 

Video for First Single, “Election Time,” Filmed in Haiti

NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia Records will release If I Were President: My Haitian Experience, the new six song EP from Wyclef Jean, available on the iTunes store today. If I Were President: My Haitian Experience,
includes “Election Time,” a provocative new universal song written in
the wake of Wyclef’s recent attempt to run for president in Haiti.  The track is currently streaming here: http://soundcloud.com/they-win-u-lose/wyclef-jean-election-time

“This song is
inspired by Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick In The Wall,’ with the chant,
‘We don’t need no education,'” says Wyclef Jean.  “It is also inspired
by Fela Kuti‘s  ‘Zombie.’  It’s the voice
of the youth.  It is the voice of this generation.  It’s the artist
once again doing what the politicians should be doing.  This is about
inspiring the voice of this generation.” To Continue, Please click “MORE”!