Ego Ella May is going on a UK tour, and she has shared a video of “What You Waiting For” performed live. The tour will start in April at YES in Manchester, and it will be in support of her sophomore album, Good Intentions. The British-Nigerian singer-songwriter emerged in 2020Continue Reading
Candid Records jazz recording artists Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell are celebrating a Grammy nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album for their 2025 protest project, We Insist 2025!. The album arrived during the 65th anniversary year of We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite—the landmark recording written by Max Roach and Oscar Brown Jr., featuring Abbey Lincoln, originallyContinue Reading
John Coltrane’s New York home will reopen as an interactive museum in 2026. The John and Alice Coltrane home in Dix Hills, New York, was deemed a national treasure in 2018 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The saxophone innovator and his wife, Alice, who was a respected jazzContinue Reading
Soulive and Van Hunt pay homage to Sly Stone, Brian Wilson, and D’Angelo with “Flowers At Your Feet.” The funk/jazz trio connected with the soul maverick by sending him an almost completed track. Van Hunt describes his feelings about the song in a press release. “When Alan sent me theContinue Reading