“I’ve never doubted the power of music to cure, heal and make sense of things” Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick has always given credit to the music from the beaches of Mauritius for being the nucleus of the Incognito sound. The Sega music he heard during his youth started his visceral understanding of music’s power to heal [...]
Last month Esperanza Spalding paid a visit to Los Angeles Internet radio station KCRW and gave a mini concert and performed “Smile Like That,” “Black Gold,” “Crowned and Kissed,” and “Radio Song.”
The lineup for this year’s Annual JazzReggae Festival has been announced and it includes The Roots, Gary Clark, Jr., Bobby Womack, Shaggy and Sonnymoon among others. This is the 26th year for the festival that takes place on UCLA’s Intramural field during Memorial Day weekend. Tickets are currently on sale at UCLA’s Central Ticket Office [...]
April 30th is International Jazz Day and various cultural workers, artists, educational institutions and fans will observe it with concerts, workshops, film-viewings and exhibitions. The Jazzday website will stream the Sunset and Sunrise concerts tomorrow live from their New Orleans and New York City locations. Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Ron Carter, [...]
Los Angeles – When Russel Blake creates, he taps deep into his inner most God source. It is evidenced by music the renowned music producer and jazz bassist has gifted the planet with, including three CD’s and over 432 compositions within his repertoire encompassing classical, Spanish classical, traditional jazz, Brazilian, opera, Latin and blues music [...]
Esperanza Spalding made an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show a few days ago and “Black Gold” was one of the songs she performed from her current album Radio Music Society.
Tom Browne grew-up in Queens, New York and began his professional music career as a sideman on a date with Weldon Irvine in 1975. He signed his first recording contract with GRP in 1978 and his instrumental Browne Sugar debuted in 1979. It would be his second and third albums, Love Approach and Magic that [...]
“Be Good (Lion’s Song)” is the title track of Gregory Porter’s latest album of the same name.
Mo Brandis is a new young vocalist with Incognito and he helped write “Goodbye To Yesterday” with Bluey. Incognito’s 25th album Surreal comes out Tuesday.
