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Keyboard Legend Bernie Worrell’s Classic CD, “Elevation – The Upper Air” Released | Available NOW

Bernie Worrell’s First Ever Solo Piano CD Released On M.O.D. Technologies –
Elevation, The Upper Air


Bernie Worrell, keyboard legend, founding member and essential collaborator / composer / arranger in George Clintonʼs Parliament/Funkadelic, has worked with an extremely diverse array of artists -Talking Heads, Bootsy Collins, The Rolling Stones, Lee ”Scratch” Perry, Black Uhuru, Fela Kuti, Burning Spear, Pharoah Sanders, Buddy Guy, Sly & The Family Stone, Mos Def, Albert King, Sly & Robbie, etc. He is among the most influential and emulated electronic keyboardists in modern music. His synthesizer work defined 80ʼs and 90ʼs West Coast Hip Hop and is still recognized in the pop hits of today.

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The Wah Wah Collective to Release Debut Album, “Cry Baby Soul” on Feb. 24th, 2014 | LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC!!

The Wah Wah Collective
‘Cry Baby Soul’
Debut Album



Artist:  The Wah Wah Collective
Album:  Cry Baby Soul
Label:  I-innovate
Catalog:  innowah
Release:  24th February 2014
Format:  CD/Digital iTunes/Amazon

LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE BELOW!!

‘Cry Baby Soul’ is the first album offering from The Wah Wah Collective. A gathering of previous vinyl only releases mixed with unreleased songs from the now London based group.

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Eric Benét Joins Production Company to Launch Campaign to Create “Sub Stars”

Grammy Nominated Artist Eric Benét Joins Emmy Award-Winning Production Company to Launch a Campaign to Create “Sub Stars”



A New Reality Competition Show Giving “Underground” Performers a Real Platform to Debut Their Talent and Rise to Stardom

Grammy Nominated Artist Eric Benét Joins Emmy Award-Winning Production Company to Launch a Campaign to Create Beverly Hills, CA, November 14, 2013 –(PR.com)– Viardo Artists, a Beverly Hills-based entertainment company in partnership with the Emmy Award-winning production company Natural 9 Entertainment, have announced today that they have teamed up with Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter/producer Eric Benét, to co-produce a new reality music competition show titled “Sub Stars.”

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Royalty Exchange Announces Auction Feat Catalog of R&B Singer/Producer Kashif

Kashif
 
Royalty Exchange Announces Auction Featuring Catalog Of R&B Icon Kashif
 
Song Royalties Include Top 10 Hit Singles From Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston
 
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Royalty Exchange, the online marketplace for music and entertainment royalties, today announced the upcoming auction of royalties from the catalog of iconic R&B singer, songwriter, producer and six-time Grammy nominee, Kashif.

Trombone Shorty Releases New Disc, “Say That To Say This” | WATCH NEW VIDEO

Critcally Acclaimed Multi-Instrumentalist Trombone Shorty Releases New CD,
“Say That To Say This”
WATCH NEW MUSIC VIDEO


Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews has God-given talent, natural charisma and a relentless drive to bridge music’s past and future. His third outing for Verve Records, Say That To Say This, was co-produced by Andrews and kindred spirit Raphael Saadiq, and sounds like nothing else out there, as Andrews and his longtime band, Orleans Avenue – guitarist Pete Murano, bassist Mike Ballard and drummer Joey Peebles – continue their natural musical evolution.

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New Jazz Release: Guitarist Calvin Keys | “Electric Keys” (Avail NOW)

Wide Hive Records Presents
Calvin Keys
“Electric Keys”
Available Now


 
Nine New Compositions of Jazz / Funk / Blues

 
Innovative Jazz guitarist Calvin Keys is a legend among soul-jazz fans for his appearances as a session musician and his small catalog of releases under his own name. Known for his lean, muscular single-string solo style, Keys was born in 1943 in Omaha, Nebraska.
 
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New Group MUTINY to Release Album, “Funk Road” on Sept. 3rd, 2013

Mutiny “Funk Road”  to be Released on September 3rd
from Catbone Records


 
Genre jumping Neo Funk from former Parliament Funkadelic heavyweight, Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey and crew

 
Funk Road, the latest album by Mutiny is scheduled to be released September 3, 2013 on the Catbone Music label. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey, was drummer during the peak of Parliament-Funkadelic’s fame and co-writer of such classic hits as “Tear the Roof Off” until he split from “The Mothership” to form his own band, Mutiny.

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George Duke: An Appreciation by A. Scott Galloway

From Adderley to Zappa…and All the Space Between:
An Appreciation of George Duke
 
by A. Scott Galloway
 
Some losses leave unfathomable fissures in the foundation of family, community and industry. The transition of George Duke at age 67 from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is such a loss. The proof lies in the first 48 hours of homage that swept across social media – emanating as much from the hearts of folks who knew him as among the warmest, funniest and most generous of men to walk the earth as from musicologists who strained to mainline the panoramic palette of his musical breadth and depth. The passing of George Duke demands that one ponder long and hard of the experience, wisdom, perspective and personality that has ascended. Yet voluminous traces have been left behind for generations to study and enjoy long into the future. It is “the future” that the electric keyboard and synthesizer wizard always had his third eye locked on…heart anchored in ancient reveries of Afro-acoustic ivories…and The Spirit ever in it.
 
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London Based Jazz/Soul Group Personal Life to Release New CD, “Morning Light’ on July 8th, 2013 | WATCH TEASER VIDEO!

London’s Jazzy Soul Group Personal Life is Set to Drop New Project,
“Morning Light”
on July 8th, 2013 | WATCH TEASER VIDEO!


‘Personal Life’ is a London based jazzy soul collective formed by Robert Strauss, featuring the classic sounding voice of Stuart Lisbie plus core members of Amy Winehouse’s touring band.

The vision for this project is to bring back into popular consciousness the sound,…

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The 12th Annual Independent Music Awards Announce Winners

THE 12TH ANNUAL INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED


Ben
Kweller, Band Of Skulls, Killer Mike, Dethklok, Willie Nile, Passenger,
Five Finger Death Punch, Team Me, Gungor, Bernie Worrell Orchestra, The
Wiyos and Little Freddie King Among The 12th IMA Winners

Banned Iranian duo Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat Take Top Honors in World Traditional Album

Fan Online Voting Will Determine The 12th IMA Vox Pop Winners


Ben
Kweller, Band Of Skulls, Killer Mike, Dethklok, Little Freddie King,
Passenger, Five Finger Death Punch, Team Me, Gungor, Bernie Worrell
Orchestra, The Wiyos, and Willie Nile are among the exceptional self-released and independent label talent named today by Music Resource Group (MRG) as the Judge-determined Winners of The 12th Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), the influential international awards program for independent bands and fans.

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