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WATCH NEW VIDEO! Legendary R&B Group ConFunkShun Returns with New Album, “More Than Love” on April 28th, 2015

Con Funk Shun - 2015
 
CLASSIC FUNK /R&B GROUP
CONFUNKSHUN
RETURNS WITH FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN MORE THEN 20 YEARS
MORE THAN LOVE DUE OUT APRIL 28, 2015
 
Check Out New Video For “I Miss You”-
New Single Currently At Radio!!
 
Once upon a time there were many great self-contained R&B and funk groups, innovative, immensely popular artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, War, The Meters, The Commodores, Kool & The Gang, Lakeside, Slave and many others who created a body of work in the 70’s and 80’s that still thrills audiences today.
 

LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC! R&B/Funk Band Orgone Releases New Album “Beyond The Sun” on April 28th, 2015 | Announces New Tour

Orgone - cropped
 
Photo: Art Arroz Photography
 
ORGONE BRINGS FUNK INTO THE 21ST CENTURY ON SHANACHIE DEBUT BEYOND THE SUN
& READIES FOR BLOCKBUSTER SPRING TOUR!!
 
Orgone releases electrifying bonus track “Sweet Feet,” which they describe as an anthem for wallflowers around the world.
 

 
In the 1970’s, there was a plethora of self-contained R&B/funk bands such as The Meters, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, War, Parliament/Funkadelic, Mandrill, Rufus and of course James Brown’s JB’s, who were creating expansive combinations of R&B, funk, rock, Latin and pan-African sounds, often via wide-ranging, incendiary live performances that put them on the cutting edge of global music-making.

LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC! Italian Jazz-Funk Group Camera Soul Releases New Album “Dress Code”

Camera Soul - Dress Code
 
The Italian jazz-funk supergroup follows up the success of previous album, ‘Not For Ordinary People’, with its third studio album and the debut of lead vocalist Maria Enrica Lotesoriere.
 
Denver, CO, USA (PRWEB) January 20, 2015
 
On January 20, 2015, Italian jazz-funk group Camera Soul will release its third studio album, ‘Dress Code’, through Azzurra Music in Europe and TIMKAT Entertainment in the Americas.
 

Funk/R&B Band ORGONE Signs with Shanachie Ent. | New CD Coming in April 2015

Orgone
 
ORGONE BRINGS THE FUNK INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
 
(Photo: Art Urroz Photography)
 
Beginning as a largely instrumental band nearly a decade ago, Orgone, with the addition of DeLeon, and increased touring up to 150 dates a year, has evolved to become a high-energy band with extraordinary command of a wide range of R & B and funk grooves, laced with jazz, Latin and rock music. Orgone has just been signed by Shanachie Entertainment and is now recording a new album –their first with DeLeon, slated for April release.

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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