Georgia Anne Muldrow is releasing a jazz album this summer under the name Jyoti which was given to her by Alice Coltrane. Mama, You Can Bet! is her third Jyoti album but the first one with her vocals. “The Walk” and Cowrie Waltz” are from the album and MuldrowContinue Reading
[youtube id=”sggjSJ3qh8U”] Adrien Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad give a quick look at their work with Roy Ayers for their Jazz Is Dead series. Here they are in the studio working on “Hey Lover.” Ayers, Younge and Muhammad wrote the songs for the album that take inspiration from Ayers’s ’70sContinue Reading
African jazz and funk musician Manu Dibango passed yesterday at the age of 86 from coronavirus complications. Dibango is known for his 1972 hit song “Soul Makossa.” He melded jazz, funk and the music of his native Cameroon into his own transcontinental style. His recording career began in 1968 withContinue Reading
Nat King Cole recorded “Unforgettable” in 1951 and it landed on his 1952 album with the same title and was reissued in 1954. Cole was very popular in the 1950s after having hit songs in the previous decade and the number one record in 1951 with the song “Too Young.”Continue Reading