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Flutist Lori Bell to Release Tribute Album “Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson” on April 19th, 2024 | WATCH VIDEO! Announces New Tour Dates for 2024


 
Virtuoso LORI BELL Pays Homage to Music Titan JOE HENDERSON
 
Releasing April 19, ’Recorda Me’ Reimagines 8 Henderson Classics Including 60s Era Groundbreakers “Isotope,” “Serenity,” “Inner Urge,” “Punjab,” and “A Shade of Jade”
 
San Diego, CA: Accomplished arranger, virtuoso musician and esteemed educator, Lori Bell returns April 19th with Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson, an extraordinary new collection paying homage to one of the all-time greats, hard bop, jazz icon, Joe Henderson.

Bassoonist Joy Guidry Releases New Single “I Will Always Miss You” | LISTEN! New Album “Amen” Coming May 10th, 2024


 
Joy Guidry Releases “I Will Always Miss You” Today In Advance Of Full Length LP AMEN Out May 2024 on Whited Sepulchre Records
 
Love is a verb. It is an action taken, one that must be renewed within the self. It is a process of learning, evolution, and the very nature of what it means to nurture ourselves and others. And few artists know this as intimately as Joy Guidry, the Texas-bred, California-based bassoonist. The fruits of her efforts can be heard through Guidry’s latest album, Amen.

Saxophonist Kirk Whalum to Release New Album “Epic Cool” on May 17th, 2024 | LISTEN to New Single “Bah-De-Yah!”! Announces New Tour Dates for 2024


 
Award Winning Saxophonist Kirk Whalum Announces
EPIC COOL
New Album Out May 17 via Mack Avenue Music Group/Artistry Music
 
First Single “Bah-De-Yah!” Available Today
 
April 5, 2024: Today, award-winning Memphis-born jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum announces the release of his newest single “Bah-De-Yah!” taken from his upcoming album Epic Cool which releases May 17th via Mack Avenue Music Group/Artistry Music.

Producer/Keyboardist Chris “Big Dog” Davis to Release New Album “After The Storm” on April 5th, 2024 | LISTEN!


 
Producer/Keyboardist Chris “Big Dog” Davis to Release New Album “After The Storm”
 
With a long list of #1 Billboard productions for other artists and a few Grammy nods, Davis and the label came to the conclusion that it is now his season and that the time was more than right for him to show himself fully to the music world.

Saxophonist Randy Scott to Release New Project “Oasis” on April 19th, 2024 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Saxophonist Randy Scott to Release New Project “Oasis”
 
Randy Scott is a professional musician, record producer, educator, and composer. He signed a recording deal with Sony distributed label, Trippin’N Rhythm Records in 2011, and his latest album, “Elevation” resulted in three back-to-back Billboard #1s. As a result, Randy was named international “Breakout Artist of the Year” in December of 2020.

Multi-Faceted Music Master Kevin Toney Passes From Cancer at 70


 
Multi-Faceted Music Master KEVIN TONEY Passes From Cancer at 70
 
Detroit-born prodigy was Leader of `70s Soul-Jazz hitmakers The Blackbyrds founded at HBCU Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Under the Mentorship of Donald Byrd
 
The legacy of pianist/composer/bandleader/educator Kevin Toney stands as among the finest of the artform – not only as a player and performer, but as a human being who strived throughout his lifetime to excel so-as-to be of service.

Jazz Ensemble Spontaneous Groovin’ Combustion Releases New Track “Spontaneity” | LISTEN!


 
Jazz Ensemble Spontaneous Groovin’ Combustion Releases New Track “Spontaneity”
 
Experiencing success as a NYC rocker in the 80s and Nashville songwriter in the 90s—woodwindist/composer, Warren A. Keller now channels his most vibrant, grooving influences into his role as leader of the perfectly named urban jazz/funk ensemble, Spontaneous Groovin’ Combustion (SGC).

Jazz/Funk Bassist Christian de Mesones to Release New Album “You Only Live Twice” on April 12th, 2024 | LISTEN!


 
Reborn, Reimagined and Remixed: Jazz funk bassist Christian de Mesones returns with “You Only Live Twice,” a new album dropping April 12 that contains the Billboard No. 1 hit “Hispanica” featuring keyboard legend Bob James.
 
ORANGE COUNTY, VA (25 March 2024): A lifetime ago, Christian de Mesones was a New York City cabbie and heavy metal bassist who had a voracious appetite for the seedy decadence the Big Apple’s music scene was known for in the 1980s.

The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation to Release New Live Project “Jamalot” on May 24th, 2024 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Guitarist Bobby Broom Serves Up a Platter of Spicy Organ Jazz with “Jamalot,” Set for May 24 Release by Steele Records
 
For his 14th album, guitarist Bobby Broom has assembled choice live recordings by his finely tuned organ trio, The Organi-Sation, with Ben Paterson on Hammond B3 and drummer Kobie Watkins, that demonstrate the group’s dynamics and telepathy.

Percussionist Eric Frazier to Release New Project “That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman” on March 29th, 2024


 
BROOKLYN BASED PERCUSSIONIST,
VOCALIST, POET, EDUCATOR
ERIC FRAZIER
RELEASES NEW CD
That Place Featuring “Return of The Panther Woman”
 
Brooklyn-based percussionist, drummer, vocalist, composer and bandleader Eric Frazier’s new recording That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman, is an impressive and infectious collection that moves and grooves in multiple musical genres.