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Luther Allison

Born: August 17, 1939

A New Beat

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sticks; Better Days; London Towne; Until I See You Again; Soulful; Heart Full Of Rhythm; Bird Lives; Helen's Song.

Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat

by Jack Bowers
March 19, 2024

The rhythms presented on award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s latest album are not exactly A New Beat, as they have been heard in various configurations for at least eighty years or more, but they do provide a plausible indication of the path that Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers would presumably have followed had Blakey lived into ...

Introducing Bassist Liany Mateo

by Sanford Josephson
October 9, 2023

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Liany Mateo started playing the bass when she was 13 years old. “They opened up a performing arts school in Jersey City," she recalled. “At that time, I knew I wanted to play an instrument. I was into '70s punk music, and all of my favorite ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 11, 2023

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...

Samara Joy at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center

by Mark Robbins
June 4, 2023

When Samara Joy performed last June at the Vocal Jazz Summit in Virginia Beach she was fairly new on the scene and even though she could deliver a song like a seasoned pro she was a little shy interacting with the audience. What a difference one year and two Grammys make. The singer, who appeared at ...

Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill

by Jerome Wilson
April 14, 2023

Gregg Hill is a jazz composer favored by several jazz musicians who have recorded entire albums of his work, such as guitarist Randy Napoleon and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here trombonist Michael Dease joins the party with a full album of Hill pieces arranged for a quintet. Hill's writing on this album delves into a ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2022: The 43rd Edition Returns to a Live Audience

by Paul Rauch
September 22, 2022

Detroit Jazz FestivalHart Plaza and Campus Martius jny:Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2022 The main lobby of the Detroit Marriott at Renaissance Center was abuzz with greetings and joyful conversation. You could feel the ardent positivity in the room as well as you could feel the near ninety-degree heat and accompanying steady ...

Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes

by Doug Collette
May 20, 2022

Is blues music the most mutable of all musical forms? It's a question worth asking when taking into account the expanse of styles within the genre that stretch all the way from the skeletal acoustic likes of Son House and Reverend Gary Davis to the earthshaking electric onslaughts of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Henry ...

This is Our Environment

By Joseph Herbst

Label: Next Level
Released: 2021
Track listing: They Say There Are Beautiful Trees; Momma Nature (ft. Dasan Ahanu); Solastalgia; Mama E (ft. Cynthia ‘THiA’ Sharpe); Is This My Fault?; Erring of the Revolution Pt. 1 (ft. Yexandra 'Yex' Diaz); Makes No Cents; Erring of the Revolution Pt. 2 (ft. Yexandra 'Yex' Diaz); Iron Eyes; LEGACY (ft. RaShad Eas); Estrange Us; Communion (ft. RaShad Eas); Simple Life (ft. RaShad Eas); Visions of Freedom.