The twelve-member, Staten Island-based Budos Band churns out soul music for Daptone Records using eleven instruments, chops worthy of James Brown's backing band, and lots of Staten Island soul. Their ...
Few artists in Soul music incorporated the rhythms, technological interventions, and spiritual ethos of American jazz more fully than the late Donny Hathaway. Over the course of his recording career, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Benson’s music has a way of wrapping around you — like a smooth breeze on a late summer evening or the sound of someone you trust speaking truth with melody. Whether he’s ...
Bob Beamon and Stix Bones. Photo Credit: MarQ Brown, WhoShotYa! BK LLC. Bob Beamon and Stix Bones. Photo Credit: MarQ Brown, WhoShotYa! BK LLC. Olympic gold medalist long jumper Bob Beamon and Stix ...
It’s hard to call the recent popularity of organ-based jam/jazz/soul band The Delvon Lamarr Trio a full-fledged revitalization of an organic keyboard-based sound popular in the ’60s and ’70s. Still, ...
As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...
Beyoncé has dropped new a capella and instrumental versions of her Renaissance lead single “Break My Soul,” ahead of the record’s release on Friday, July 29. Alongside the two new renditions, Queen ...
Every third Wednesday of the month, West Palm Beach hosts Soul in the City. Enjoy jazz at the Lake Pavilion from 7 p.m. to 9 ...