?uestlove & Capt Kirk of The Legendary Roots Crew are known in a very small circle in New York as Black Simon and Garfunkel. Last night on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” they took on Lorde’s hit song “Royals”.
Live Performance
Before he was the Grammy award winning Gregory Porter, he was just Gregory Porter, the incredibly awesome jazz singer. Here is a performance from The Jazzwoche Burghausen on March 16th, 2013. Gregory performs tracks from his first two releases Water and Be Good, both of which are available on Mr. Porter’s website. If you have heard Liquid Spirit then and love it as you should, then you will love these two albums as well. Gregory’s voice is just a dynamic live as it is on record. He is a real treasure to the Jazz community and I look forward to many years of amazing music from him.
The Personnel at this performance are:
GREGORY PORTER – vocals
YOSUKE SATO – alto sax
CHIP CRAWFORD – piano
AARON JAMES – bass
EMANUEL HARROLD – drums
JOHN FADDIS – trumpet (On My Way To Harlem, Work Song, & But Beautiful)
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Last night, Snoop Dogg made a pit stop by Hal and Mal’s in Jackson on his way back from the All-Star weekend in New Orleans. I was apprehensive about checking out the show for various reasons. That was until they announced that 5th Child / DJ Young Venom / Southern Comfort would be opening up the show. 5th Child (Vintage Noize) took full advantage of the opportunity to open up for a superstar. Assisted by James Crow and Violator All-Star DJ Young Venom on the tables, 5th set the bar high for the night. As people were pouring in they were treated to a great performance with incredible energy. The crowd’s reaction let’s everyone know what they thought. They didn’t even drop 5th Child when he dove from the stage into the crowd. One thing was made certain last night, if you have a hip-hop show in Jackson this guy should be on your bill, period.
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Freestyle Fellowship/Project Blowed/Good Life veteran P.E.A.C.E. freestyles over a trap beat proving why he is the very embodiment of an EMCEE. If you are not up on P.E.A.C.E. or the FF or PB, then once again Google is your friend and be prepared to dig deep. These cats influenced some of your favorite emcees in the game. And by influenced I mean birthed their styles.
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PyInfamous, is not only one of the coldest emcees and a rapper’s rapper, but he is also the subject of of The Turnup Sessions third volume. PyInfamous talks to the Turnup guys about his inspiration and musical influences in between snippets of his songs “Praise” and “New Life”. Both selections are taken from PyInfamous’ last release Final Discussion, produced entirely by Sam.I.Am The Son. I think they read my mind, because these two tracks are my personal favorites on the album. Soulful and introspective, which is usually a prerequisite when it comes to my personal tastes in music. PyInfamous might be familiar to you as he was Coors Light’s Coldest Emcee a short time ago, recognized by his live performance and given the chance to open up some shows for N.E.R.D. as a result.
PURCHASE: PYINFAMOUS & SAM.I.AM THE SON – FINAL DISCUSSION
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Jesse Fischer & Sly5thAve got the band together to do a Herbie Hancock/Headhunters tribute show. That’s great, you know what else is great? They got Dr. Eddie Henderson to perform “You’ll Know When You Get There” from Mwandishi. Something else is great too, they recorded it so they could share with the world. enjoy……
Dr. Eddie Henderson – trumpet
Jay Jennings – flugelhorn
Irwin Hall – flute
Sylvester Onyejiaka (Sly5thAve) – bass clarinet
Jesse Fischer – rhodes
David Cutler – bass
Keita Ogawa – percussion
Jerome Jennings – drums
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Next Saturday, January 18th, The Basement presents New Jacks live at Morningbell Records & Cafe. A showcase of up and coming artists from the Jackson hip-hop scene. The show will start at 7pm sharp and the price of admission is no dollars and no cents, or as I like to put it $Free.99. The roster for the evening includes Tira D, TSG, D.O.L.O., Renee Lee, and Jaxx City. If you did not make it to the last Basement event, you missed out. Don’t sleep this time.
If you don’t know where Morningbell is located it is at
4760 I-55 N Ste A
Jackson, Mississippi 39211
Click the more button below to check out some music from the featured artists.
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Oh, Jeremiah does a nice live cover of Josh Ritter’s “Change Of Time” featured on So Runs The World Away. Oh, Jeremiah’s Tall Tales And Tiny Fables is available now on iTunes. Click the link below and support excellent new music for your ears to hear.
PURCHASE – OH, JEREMIAH – TALL TALES AND TINY FABLES
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Richard Pryor sings the mess out of this blues standard. They just don’t make ’em like this any more do they?
Spotted over at Death and Taxes Mag
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The track originally appeared on Nina Simone’s 1967 RCA Victor release Sings The Blues. Written by Nina’s friend Langston Hughes, an activist, poet, writer, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. She dedicates the song to Mr. Hughes who passed away in 1967. If you are unfamiliar with Langston, then you can start by googling him and then just go from there. I highly recommend you make sure you have enough time, this is a man who accomplished much in his 60 some years on this Earth. If you look up Renaissance Man in a dictionary, Mr. Hughes picture is just to the right of it.
Back to the song, taken from Nina Simone’s 1976 Live at Montreux performance. A time some would call a valley in a life defined by peaks and valleys. But if you watch this entire performance, you’ll see a stripped down Nina. The entire concert plays like a conversation between Nina and her audience. Emotions run high with the songstress as they usually do. I’m sure you can dig the entire performance up on Youtube as well, so take some time and get up close and personal with one of America’s most gifted singers of, well of ever.
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