Join Us For The Special 35th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Coverage & Interviews on T.U.M.S.! 2013 Good Morning Readers and whats happening? T.U.M.S. kicks off the week with a slew of special interviews with yours truly slated to perform this weekend at the 35th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival. It’s happening …
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June 10, 2013 – New York, NY – Robert Randolph, the slide guitar jam/rock/blues phenomenon who’s been captivating global audiences for a decade, has debuted the first song from his upcoming album Lickety Split, set for release July 16th from Blue Note Records. The song, “Born Again,” is available for streaming and embedding at this link.
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New York, NY June 10, 2013—One of the industry’s more interesting qualities is its uncanny ability to produce those few innovative producer/musician/songwriter collaborations that bring a unique “something special” to whatever music project they are working on. They have an unequaled degree of persona, innovative ideas, and represent a certain unexplained vision of life and music that the masses can identify with. Not complacent with just being the front man for multi-platinum R&B Supergroup Mint Condition, Stokley Williams, known as Stokley, is adding a new chapter to his career as a Producer and this music wunderkind’s goal is to bring “the musicality back to music”.
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The compilation Funky Party is a melting pot of greats Funky Grooves that are coming from a bunch of talented FunkSoul Brothers: The leaders of the new school Uptown Funk Empire, Cool Million and Los Charly’s Orchestra and Fatback 4Way, Confection from Australia, Uraz Kurt from Istanbul and a brilliant newcomer from France: Moonshoes. They are backed by a dream team of vocalists: The Maestros Rotimo Soul, The Supa Soul Brotha Del of the Neutronics, and Don Dolla, the Divas Cagri Ultay, Me’lisa Morgan, Diane Marsh and Janice & Ange. It’s absolutly essential modern Funk business here !!!
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Detroit, MI — Legendary Clark Sister Twinkie Clark has released a new audio and video single – “God Gave Me Favor” from her forthcoming CD LIVE & UNPLUGGED (on Larry Clark Gospel, LLC). The famed songwriter and Queen of the Hammond B3 recorded her new project at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI. The audio single is available on iTunes and Amazon now and is impacting radio stations across the U.S.
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STYLUS™ – DISCOVER THE WORLD OF JAZZ
June 10, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA – Stylus™, a music application specially designed for leading music streaming service Spotify, premiered today as a fun, easy and exciting way for listeners to explore and discover the best of classic and contemporary jazz from among an essential database of over 1,200 titles.
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LindsaySlatonheadshot.jpg (Washington, DC) – June 10, 2013 – Lindsay Slaton has been singing since she can remember. Born and raised in Richmond, VA, and currently a resident of Waldorf, MD, Slaton has been in love with music since she was a little girl. Belting out tunes as a member of the children’s choir of Mount Hermon Baptist Church, she realized she had a gift for singing.
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The iKhan Project: Alive Now Scheduled for Release This Fall
(Los Angeles, CA – June 6, 2013) – Chaka Khan Enterprises announced today that Khan has had to cancel four concert dates in June due to extended vocal rest ordered by her doctor. The concert dates include, The Capital Jazz Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD (Saturday, June 8); the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, held outdoors in the downtown Cultural District in Pittsburg, PA (June 9); an appearance with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at Columbus Commons in Columbus, OH (June 14) and Joni: A Portrait in Song at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada (June 18 and 19).
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NEW YORK & LONDON, JUNE 6, 2013 – Blue Note Records, the world’s premiere jazz label, has launched an iPhone and iPod touch version of its Blue Note by Groovebug App, which was introduced for iPad last year, both versions available exclusively on the App Store.
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SOUL/JAZZ/R&B DIVA MAYSA SET TO DELIVER FINEST ALBUM YET
BLUE VELVET SOUL
COMING JUNE 18, 2013
Maysa is the kind of singer who takes hold of a song and enraptures her audience in the palm of her hands, as she delivers lyrics, phrases, melodies and harmonies in a way that only she can.