Contemporary Jazz Saxophonist J White Releases New Single “What If I Told You” feat Tanya Tiet. Available NOW on CDBaby.
JWhite opens up a fresh new approach to the world of Jazz with a Jazz/Soul collaboration. The title track, “What if I told you“, featuring songstress, Tanya Tiet and billboard charting producer Paris Toon pays high respect to the essence of organic Jazz and Soul music.
Fourplay celebrates their 25th anniversary with the November 20 release of Silver.
For two decades, the contemporary jazz quartet known as Fourplay has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B, pop and a variety of other sounds to their unwavering jazz foundations.
An entrepreneurial “Harp” full of soul
Urban-jazz harpist Mariea Antoinette will release a special edition of her Billboard Top 5 album “Straight from the Harp” on September 25 in conjunction with receiving a Phenomenal Women in Entrepreneurship Award from the National Council of Negro Women.
San Diego, California (6 August 2015): To infiltrate the upper echelon of the Billboard album charts with an ancient instrument while cross-pollinating musical genres certainly has taken the imaginative vision and inspired creativity of a trailblazing entrepreneur. On September 26, urban-jazz harpist Mariea Antoinette will receive a Phenomenal Women in Entrepreneurship Award from the National Council of Negro Women, the 49th annual community event in San Diego, California at which she will perform.
Christian McBride Trio Celebrates Long Term
Residency at Historic New York City Venue
with Live at the Village Vanguard –
Available September 18 via Mack Avenue Records
When Philadelphia-born bassist/bandleader Christian McBride arrived in New York in 1989 as a Juilliard student, he was the “Godchild of the Groove” with unlimited potential. Today, with over 300 recordings as a sideman and 11 critically acclaimed albums as a leader, he now reigns supreme as the “Lord of the Lower Frequencies.”
Ms. Lauryn Hill Performing Nina Simone And Her Own Hits At Pier Six Concert Pavilion
PRLog – Aug. 3, 2015 – BALTIMORE — Baltimore, MD (August 3, 2015) -Grammy-Award winning artist and hip-hop icon Ms. Lauryn Hill is performing her classic hits and songs from the new compilation album Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone the Pier Six Concert Pavilion in Baltimore on Friday, August 7, 2015. Ms. Lauryn Hill contributes six songs to the new album, which serves as the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?
Tenor Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis Releases Days Of FreeMan, A Tribute To His Hip-Hop Roots — Album Available Now
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NEW YORK, July 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Visionary composer and tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis‘s bravest, yet most palpable artistic feat, Days Of FreeMan, opens with a poignant and profound introductory monologue from a maternal sage. She says: “The best thing of living is living who you are. You can’t be somebody else; you gotta be what God gave you to be and who you are. You look in the mirror and see yourself and say ‘I’m James Brandon Lewis.”‘ Next, bass and drums congeal around the sapphire melodic motif of “Brother 1976,” recalling one of those jazzy jewel-like hooks from a 1990s Native Tongue hip-hop jam. The effect is like 1990s hip-hop’s fascination with jazz being spit back by a prodigious jazz innovator.
SOUL/JAZZ/GOSPEL SINGER/SONGWRITER
OLETA ADAMS
SHARES HER BELIEF IN THE POWER OF
MUSICAL PRAYER ON TWO NEW
DIGITAL SINGLES, “LONG AND LONELY
HOURS” AND “SAFE AND SOUND”
Twenty four years after Oleta Adams’ empowering version of the Brenda Russell-penned “Get Here” became a Top 5 Billboard 100 hit, earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was adopted as an anthem for the U.S. troops in the Gulf War, the veteran soul, jazz and gospel singer, songwriter and pianist continues to touch people around the world with comfort, compassion and a beautiful, much needed sense of catharsis.
Groove therapy: contemporary jazz singer Carol Duboc keeps her diary open on “Colored Glasses”
Her seventh album, due September 18, is bolstered by collaborator Jeff Lorber’s R&B rhythms.
Los Angeles, California: On Carol Duboc’s deeply personal 2013 release, “Smile,” the contemporary jazz singer-songwriter opened up in a way that she had never done so before, revealing the pain and heartache involved with dissolving her marriage while being the mother of a young daughter. She described writing the album with producer and jazz keyboards legend Jeff Lorber as therapeutic.
Jazz Saxophonist Lebron Dennis Returns with new disc “New Era” from Trippin’ and Rhythm Records.
Contemporary Jazz Saxman Lebron Dennis comes back to the scene with a new, energetic project entitled, “New Era” – first released on June 24th, 2015 on Trippin and Rhythm Records. Joining Lebron on a few selections are special guests Julian Vaughn (bassist), Keith Fluitt (Vocals), Lin Rountree (Trumpet), Rachael Gehmilch (Violin) and many more. This is Lebron’s 2nd offering to date behind the successful release of “Shades” back in 2013. The ‘young lion’ joins an impressive list of jazz musicians who are still parading the circuit, helping to keep the pure essence of modern jazz music alive.
Lafayette Harris
New CD
“Bend To the Light”
+ Upcoming Live Appearances
Musicians: Lafayette Harris Jr.-piano, Lonnie Plaxico-bass, Willie Jones III-drums
Bend To The Light, which is my 7th CD, is a collection with music that is meant to leave people feeling good and inspired. Bending towards that positive energy in life is a lifelong goal for all of us and this music is inspired by that aspiration – especially the title cut. I wrote that tune for my sons who were quite active (thank god they are so strong and healthy) but, they doing the usual troublesome things that parents have to deal with: acting up, shouting, fighting, taking each others toys, etc. (They were about 5 and 7 years old at the time.)
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