Jazz Articles about Irma Thomas

About Irma Thomas

Radio & Podcasts

This week's edition of The Jazz Continuum celebrates Mother's Day with an energetic mix of soul-jazz, jazz-funk, R&B, and groove-oriented selections. The program opens with classic organ-driven tracks from saxophonist Lou Donaldson, funk pioneers The Meters, and organist Jimmy McGriff, laying the foundation for the show's rhythmic theme. As the sound evolves into 1970s jazz-funk, selections include works by keyboardist Herbie Hancock, drummer Idris Muhammad, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, and Philadelphia native Charles Earland. These artists helped ...

Album Review

Irma Thomas: The New Orleans Collection: Love Is The Foundation

Read "The New Orleans Collection: Love Is The Foundation" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
January 12, 2021

Newvelle Records, which was established in 2015, believes that in this digital age there is an opportunity to build a new model for creating and distributing music. Each year, Newvelle releases a series of six albums, exclusively on vinyl, that pairs musicians wth celebrated artists, writers and poets. The New Orleans Collection contains four single sleeve 180-gram clear vinyl albums, each of which was recorded in New Orleans between January and March 2020 at Esplanade Studios, a former church built ...