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Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)

by Tony Poole
January 28, 2025

George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...

Alawari: Leviathan

by Troy Dostert
December 12, 2024

Although Denmark's Alawari has been a known quantity in Europe since its founding in 2016, the group has yet to achieve the visibility it deserves elsewhere--but maybe that will change with Leviathan, the band's sophomore release. Filled with dense arrangements belying the sextet's diminutive size, emotionally resonant themes and fine musicianship, Alawari has crafted a gem ...

Stacey Ryan Has a Lot to Sing About

by Mark Robbins
April 15, 2023

When 21 year old Canadian singer songwriter multi instrumentalist Stacey Ryan's parents told her she needed to have a backup plan in case this music thing didn't work out. Her reply was ..."I knew it had to be music or nothing else. There was never a plan B." Judging from the millions of people following her ...

Meet Mary Foster Conklin

by AAJ Staff
October 27, 2020

About Mary Foster Conklin Mary Foster Conklin is a jazz vocalist based in New York City. She hosts A Broad Spectrum, a weekly broadcast celebrating women composers and lyricists on Sunday afternoons on the HD2 channel at WFDU FM based at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. The campus closed down in March due to ...

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss Curate 3-CD Set for 50th anniversary of A&M Records

July 18, 2012

It’s an archetypal story of the modern record business – two guys with a dream running their nascent label out of a West Hollywood garage in the summer of 1962. The label quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes one of the most important record companies the world has ever seen. The two guys were Herb Alpert ...