Dave Guy’s “Still Standing” captures the last days of summer with the warm brass of his horn situated in both jazz and funk worlds. The trumpeter is usually busy playing with The Roots on The Tonight Show and tours. “Still Standing” is from his debut album, Ruby, and it follows theContinue Reading
Louis Cole’s fifth album is called nothing and it is a collaboration with the Dutch Metropole Orkest directed by Jules Buckley. Cole is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who is normally thought of as only a drummer. The new album showcases a fuller picture of his creative impulses with inspirationContinue Reading
Meshell Ndegeocello’s curated Red, Hot & Ra: The Magic City is a tribute to the work of the late Afro-jazz futurist Sun Ra. The album is the latest in the Red Hot Organization’s series of projects started three decades ago to raise awareness and money for A.I.D.S. Ndegeocello uses SunContinue Reading
Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” in 1939 and performed it at New York’s first integrated nightclub, Café Society. Abel Meeropol wrote “Strange Fruit” as a poem in 1937 under the name Lewis Allan in response to a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of African-American boys J. Thomas Shipp and AbrahamContinue Reading