With the album, “I Learned The Hard Way,” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings show that they know what the f^#* soul music is all about, PERIOD. From the opener, “The Game Gets Old,” to the title track, The Dap Kings orchestrate the quintessential soulful landscape of slow-to-mid tempo grooves, filled with rich horns, flutes, strings, and God-given grace…
So Michael Jackson has sold over one billion dollars worth of music in the year since his untimely death. That must surely beat Elvis Presley hands down to the title of “King of Music.” Oh, and those Jackson sprogs must be three very rich white kids!
The voices of many musical stars have left great impact on the heart but I struggled to change the channel as Robin Thicke’s smooth sultry voice cried out “lost without you…”
A number of Hip-Hop stars are objecting to the creation of a new Hip-Hop Museum in Harlem. Their objection is not rooted in the potential presentation of this history, or in the quality of any personal portrayal, it is money. These are past stars from the very beginnings of Hip-Hop that have fallen on hard times and feel that the new museum should pay them for their stories.
With his début album, Music is The Food of Love, David Mensah, is a man on a mission—to single-handedly revive modern soul music—taking it back to its rightful place in our hearts. It’s the soothing, jazzy, mellow flow, that ultimately refreshes the parts other vocalists cannot reach.
If things had gone to plan, Ephraim Lewis would have been a household name. Music execs spent millions trying to turn the boy from Wolverhampton into the British Michael Jackson. Then in 1994, Ephraim jumped from a balcony in Los Angeles. The secrets of his brief, troubled life only emerging a year after his death.
There are many reasons to like JJC’s “We Are Africans”; a positive, inclusive and unhesitatingly pan-Africanist message, contributions from several rappers, including women rappers and a music video for the remix featuring the wonderful Femi Kuti.
Our grandparents had Ruby and Ossie. Our parents had Ashford and Simpson. Our generation…Well, we have Will and Jada, Beyonce and Jay Z, Aja and Fatin. Aja and Fatin you may ask? Outside of Philadelphia, they are better known as Kindred the Family Soul.
MISTY IN ROOTS’ status in the canon of British Reggae is unparalleled; not just because of the band’s longevity (still going strong) but also because they have stuck to their original brief of playing spiritual, rootsy, African fusion reggae.
Voted the 3rd Best Classical Moment of 2003 by the New York Times, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is by no means your average classical musician and composer.
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Couldn't Love You More by John Martyn
