Youngblood Brass Band-Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is more of the Youngblood Brass Band’s New Orleans’s inspired jazzy rap to precede the arrival of Pax Volumi this summer.
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Makaya McCraven-Diversion Of Form
Chicago-bred drummer Makaya McCraven’s Split Decision debut was released last year and he has recently collaborated with underground beatmaker MPC (Radius ECT) and DJ Moppy to become Living Beats. “Diversion Of Form” is their first single and video. The EP is available on their Bandcamp page.
Pledge Music Campaign For Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity Documentary
There are 48 days left in the Pledge Music campaign for the Wayne Shorter documentary Zero Gravity. Shorter’s legendary travels as a member of the famed Miles Davis Quintet, his solo career and work as one-half of jazz fusion band Weather Report are incandescent chapters in American music. The documentary was started in 2006 and [...]
$20 Tickets To See Dionne Farris & The Russell Gunn Quartet This Friday & Saturday, April 26th-27th At The Music Hall In Detroit
Dionne Farris & The Russell Gunn Quartet This Friday & Saturday, April 26th-27th, 2013 (8 & 10 PM) Season End Savings From Jazz Cafe- Tickets $20 Jazz Cafe is cutting ticket prices as a “Thank You to Detroit ” for a great Jazz Cafe Season, is offering $20 Tickets for the Grammy winning Dionne Farris [...]
Bassist Anthony Crawford Fuses Musical Genres with “Urban Jazz / My Story” Release
Los Angeles – One might easily contend that bassist Anthony Crawford has music flowing through his veins instead of blood. When you take into consideration that his dad is the noted funk and rock drummer Hubert “H bomb” Crawford, who has played with greats like James Brown, Cyndi Lauper and Mother’s Finest, and his uncle [...]
Throwback:Young-Holt Unlimited-Soulful Strut
Bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac “Redd” Holt met when both were members of a band called The Westside Cleffs. The Chicago natives met Ramsey Lewis who was also a member of the band and soon after formed The Ramsey Lewis Trio. When the trio hit its commercial peak in 1965 with “The In Crowd” [...]
R.I.P. Don Blackman
Jazz-funk pianist and songwriter Don Blackman passed from Cancer yesterday in his native New York. Blackman is mostly known for “Holding You, Loving You,” “Heart’s Desire” and “Since You Been Away So Long” from his 1982 Arista solo album. He started his career as a teenager playing with jazz saxophonist Charles McPherson before briefly working [...]
Youngblood Brass Band-20 Questions
The Youngblood Brass Band has just taken their New Orleans jazz/hip-hop/punk mash-up to Tru Thoughts Records for the summer release of Pax Volumi. “20 Questions” will be the first single from their sixth album.
Jesse Futerman X BamaLoveSoul.com-The Sleepwalker
Jesse Futerman x BamaLoveSoul.com – The SleepWalker by Jesse Futerman The Sleepwalker is a continuous trip of soul-jazz from Toronto producer Jesse Futerman and presented by BamaLoveSoul.com.