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Album Review

There is something quietly disarming about Smoove Vibes. It is the kind of album that does not shout its ambitions but simply settles into the room with you. Warren Wolf working from his basement, handles an impressive range of musical duties, including vibraphone, marimba, drums, keyboards, vocals, and sampled elements that shape the music from its rhythmic foundation to its final polish. You can hear him thinking like a band, not just a soloist, building each arrangement piece by piece ...

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Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art

by K. Shackelford
October 12, 2024

Imani-Grace Cooper is a vividly impressive vocal talent. Although she lends her voice to diverse musical genres, she has an ethereal execution of jazz that charmingly raises the eyebrow and puts a pleasurable smirk on her listener's face. Musicians dig her a lot. You can see them smiling when she's singing--she understands the idiom of jazz, inside and out, which rewards them with clever musical interplay. Several years ago, the Howard University graduate received praise from legendary artists ...