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Album

Evolutionary Minded

Label: Motéma
Released: 2013
Track listing: Offering; All We Got; Voice Of The People; Liberation Psychology; Opponent; Winter In America; It's A Time Warp; Go Ahead On Bobby; Young Blood; Recurring Cycles; Losin' Our Minds; Headhunters; Occupy Planet Earth; Uncle Sammy Full Of Lucifer; (Re)Evolution; Unknown Varietables Ahead; Tradition; Song Of The Wind;

Album

Liquid Spirit

By Gregory Porter

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: No Love Dying; Liquid Spirit; Lonesome Lover; Water Under Bridges; Hey Laura; Musical Genocide; Wolfcry; Free; Brown Grass; Wind Song; The “In” Crowd; Movin'; When Love Was King; I Fall In Love Too Easily.

Article: Year in Review

Bruce Lindsay's Best Releases Of 2013

by Bruce Lindsay
December 19, 2013

As 2013 drew to a close the Jazz Police appeared to be resurgent, at least in the UK--busily condemning those foolish enough to make and/or enjoy popular music and entertainment rather than listen to the latest cutting-edge ensemble from somewhere or other. Thankfully, the musicians just got on with it. In at least ten cases, they ...

Article: Profile

Kosi: Onwards and Upwards

by Sammy Stein
December 15, 2013

Akosua Gyebi, known as Kosi, has a voluptuous, mesmeric voice and has just released her first solo album One More Cup Of Coffee on her own label which received positive reviews. Kosi is a songstress who tells stories through her music. In her songs, you find tales of the seedier side of New York, the darker ...

Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz Festival 2013

by Adriana Carcu
December 7, 2013

Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany October 2-November 18, 2013 Enjoy Jazz is an event that can be attended in its entirety only by the lucky residents of the metropolitan area located in the Rhine-Neckar Triangle--and that for the simple reason that it runs for seven weeks. The good news is that ...

Article: Album Review

David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love

Read "Be My Monster Love" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes
November 29, 2013

If jazz is ever to escape from the “specialist" ghetto in which it finds itself in 2013 the simple truth is that we need more people with the vision of David Murray and more records as good as this one. Murray has a long and distinguished jazz career on tenor sax that began in ...

News: Recording

Motema Music Releasing Gregory Porter's "Water" And "Be Good" On Vinyl On November 26

November 15, 2013

Water Will Include Opolopo's Remix of “1960 What?" as Bonus Track In 2010, when Motéma Music was still a fledgling label, albeit one with an already impressive roster that included such lauded artists as Lynne Arriale, Rufus Reid and Marc Cary, President Jana Herzen signed a relatively unknown vocalist by the name of Gregory Porter. At ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Gregory Porter - Vinyl LP" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

November 9, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Motema Music “Gregory Porter - Vinyl LP" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 9th. Each winner will receive the vinyl editions of Gregory Porter's Motema releases, Water and Be Good. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming ...

Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival 2013

by Larry Taylor
October 9, 2013

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, California September 28-30, 2013 Like a lavish banquet, one can't indulge in the whole spread, but only savor favorites. That was the case with the lineup at the 56th annual Monterey Jazz Festival which ran at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Northern California. Topping the ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Kosi

by AAJ Staff
October 5, 2013

Meet Akosua Gyebi: I am a songwriter born and raised in New York City. Instrument(s): Vocalist. Teachers and/or influences? Salim Washington, Katchie (Katchie) Cartwright, Miles Griffith, Abbey Lincoln, Jill Scott, Gregory Porter, and Nina Simone. Your sound and approach to music: I've ...