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GRAMMY-Winning Musician Don Was Announces New Group Don Was and The Pan-Detroit Ensemble | WATCH NEW VIDEO! Announces New Tour for 2024


 
Six Time GRAMMY-Winning Musician, Producer, Composer,
and Blue Note Records President
Don Was Announces
Don Was and The Pan-Detroit Ensemble
 
March 19, 2024: Today, six-time GRAMMY-winning musician, producer, composer, and Blue Note Records President Don Was announced his new group Don Was and The Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Made up of stellar jazz musicians from his hometown, the band features longtime collaborators including Blue Note Records artist Dave McMurray on sax and Eminem’s Oscar-winning collaborator keyboardist Luis Resto.

R&B Singer Devon Howard Releases New Album “Morning Son” | LISTEN!


 
R&B Singer Devon Howard Releases Anticipated New Album “Morning Son”
 
With the success of leading single ‘Forever and Always’ (2022) and the follow up single, ‘Your Love Is,’(2022) both reaching #1 on The Indie Soul Charts in both The United States and England, and the third single ‘Wherever You Are’ (2023) peaking at #4 in the U.S., Indie R&B, Soul Singer/Songwriter/Producer Devon Howard finally delivers his highly anticipated full-length album Morning Son.

Director P. Frank Williams Launches Multimedia Venture “For The Culture, By The Culture”


 
Hulu’s Highly-Anticipated “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told”
Executive Producer and Director P. Frank Williams
Launches Multimedia Venture
‘For The Culture, By The Culture’
 
The Emmy and 8x NAACP Image-Award Winner Creates Opportunities
Behind the Camera for People of Color
in Projects Focused on Black Culture
 
Los Angeles, CA – P. Frank Williams, a recipient of an Emmy and eight NAACP Image Awards for his work in television and film production, has launched his multimedia production company, For The Culture By The Culture (@FXCXC).

Sheila E. Releases New Single “Bemba Colorá” feat Gloria Estefan & Mimy Succar | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Sheila E, Gloria Estefan and Mimy Succar pay astounding homage to Celia Cruz on “Bemba Colorá”
 
When Sheila E stepped out strutting her vocals and drums on “The Glamourous Life” – the 1984 dance gem co-produced and written by Prince, this was a grand opening of a gifted musician (a co-recipient of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 with her father Pete Escovedo) who has crossed several genres in astounding style.

Funk/Soul-Jazz Group The New Mastersounds to Release New Album “Old School” on March 29th, 2024 | LISTEN! Announces New Tour for 2024


 
The New Mastersounds’ New Record ‘Old School’ Will Be Available via the Color Red Vinyl Club in the US
New Single “Smoothie” Out Today
 
Today, longstanding international funk and soul-jazz heroes The New Mastersounds have released “Smoothie,” the second single off of their forthcoming album ‘Old School’ available via One Note Records on March 29th.

Singer Lawrence Rosenborough Releases New EP “Human Relations” | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Singer Lawrence Rosenborough Releases New EP “Human Relations”
 
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lawrence discovered his love for music at an early age. Starting as a background singer, he quickly rose to become the lead vocalist of a nationally recognized gospel group before embarking on his solo career. Throughout his journey, Lawrence has collaborated with various national recording artists across different genres, showcasing his versatility and musical prowess.

Soul-Blues Singer Sugaray Rayford to Release New Album “Human Decency” on June 14th, 2024 | LISTEN!


 
SUGARAY RAYFORD ANNOUNCES
NEW ALBUM ‘HUMAN DECENCY’ DUE JUNE 14th
VIA FORTY BELOW RECORDS
 
LOS ANGELES, CA – Sugaray Rayford is pleased to announce the June 14th release of Human Decency via Forty Below Records. The title track is a simple reminder that our similarities are more substantial than our differences, and in the end, there is no black or white or left or right; there are only hearts and minds.

Bay Area Saxophonist Raffi Garabedian Releases New Project “The Crazy Dog” | LISTEN!


 
Rising Bay Area Saxophonist Raffi Garabedian
Releases New Album The Crazy Dog Today
 
A series of lustrous chamber jazz compositions drawing inspiration from letters written by his paternal grandparents, who fled the Armenian genocide during World War I, and his father’s historical fiction inspired by the family’s experience settling near Boston
 
Raffi Garabedian has release the first single, “A Mother’s Letter,” from his forthcoming album The Crazy Dog. Raffi says: “A Mother’s Letter” was the first song I composed for this project.

Latin Jazz Ensemble Dave Schumacher & Cubeye to Release New Album “Smoke In The Sky” on April 12th, 2024 | WATCH & LISTEN!


 
Jazz Ensemble Dave Schumacher & Cubeye to Release New Album “Smoke In The Sky”
 
An accomplished versatile virtuoso baritone saxophone player, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene for more than forty years. His big, bold baritone first came to international attention during the eighties, spending much of those years touring the world with Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra.

Photographer Matthew Jordan Smith to Release New Book “Aretha Cool: The Intimate Portraits” on March 15th, 2024


 
Celebrity, Fashion and Beauty Photographer Matthew Jordan Smith Releases ‘Aretha Cool: The Intimate Portraits’, A Tribute to The Queen of Soul, Available Now on Amazon
 
(Los Angeles, CA – March 14, 2024) – Celebrity, fashion, and beauty photographer Matthew Jordan Smith releases his fourth book, Aretha Cool: The Intimate Portraits (ICLA) in tribute to The Queen of Soul during Women’s History Month on Friday, March 15, 2024, available now on Amazon.

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