Music
An Oversimplification of her Beauty: Anything But Simple!
A multifaceted mélange of art and music woven together to tell an ordinary story in an extraordinary way. To question oneself repeatedly, remembering small pieces of a puzzle once forgotten that when remembered, create the question anew. This is filmmaker/artist/musician Terence Nance‘s award-winning film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. Terence More...
Talented Tween Emily Bear Tickles the Keys with Diversity – Win Tickets to the CD Release Party
Emily Bear has never met a challenging composition she didn’t like. That this 11-year-old can play anything from heavy jazz riffs to classical concertos and everything in between, all from memory, speaks More...
Gail Ann Dorsey: One More Music Gem Out of Philly
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a city known for producing gifted music talent for the world. Seventies producing duo, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (The Sound of Philadelphia/TSOP), Jill Scott, Musiq, The Roots, More...
“Cover Art” by NEXT Collective – It’s What’s NEXT in Jazz
If you’ve been waiting for the next generation of jazz artists to hit the music scene, wait no more. Sit back, put your feet up, and behold the change in atmosphere as you follow this group of young musicians More...
Shemekia Copeland: Her Blues Are Yours and Mine
Shemekia Copeland – “33 1/3″ Daughter of celebrated blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland is making her mark and singing her way into our minds and souls. Her first offering at age More...
Simply the Coolest Music from Ava DuVernay’s “MIDDLE OF NOWHERE”
As the first African-American woman to win the Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival (2012) with MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, Ava DuVernay continues to shatter ceilings and crash through doors, creating new pathways More...
To Be Invisible. Tribute to Curtis Mayfield & Interview with Todd Mayfield.
Curtis Mayfield on "Soul Train" For a span of nearly 40 years the legendary Curtis Mayfield produced a body of work that today is not only listened to in its original form, but covered and sampled by countless More...
“60 Minutes” Profile of Adele
Via CBS News, “60 Minutes” When Adele performed “Rolling in the Deep” at the 2012 Grammys, she knew that many in the audience were expecting her voice to falter. After all, it had only been More...
Music History: Cuban Born Bassist, Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez
A bit of music history. Cuban Born Bassist, Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez, was born in 1918 and died in 2008. He was credited with inventing the Mambo. Read more about Actor Andy Garcia’s tribute to More...
