Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Nicholas Payton, a multi-faceted jazz artist and social activist, recently released his 26th recording, Drip. The album features new versions of six previously recorded compositions, including collaborations with Robert Glasper, Michael Franks, and Patrice Rushen. Payton emphasizes the importance of life experiences in his work, with a goal to uplift his audience and challenge status quo.
As I continue to exit all things Twitter/X dumpster fire, I hope you’ll follow your favorite contemporary jazz quick posts over at Threads! Today, I posted how awesome it might be for people discovering Moonlighting on Hulu to experience the…
My son, now a freshman at college, asked me if I’d heard about a French jazz band called Cortex. I said I had not and he shared a link with me. I laughed and said “this sounds like 1975!” He…
Bobby McFerrin had the top recording on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart 35 years ago. Simple Pleasures was spending its second week as the #1 album the week of June 25, 1988. Simple Pleasures was a bestseller thanks to…
Contemporary jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger David Benoit feels new energy after a recent kidney transplant. “I’ve been given this incredible gift… and I feel like I can almost start over again.” In a good article by Bondo Wyszpolski,…