Results for "Kris Johnson"

Kris Johnson

Motions

By Louis Jones III

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: stuck; Motions; Sunlight; The Episode; The Martyr; Trials; The Wicked; peekaboo; Do Not Touch; WYFD; Alternative Facts; HEAVYDENTS.

Louis Jones III: Motions

by Paul Rauch
October 9, 2025

Drummer and composer Louis Jones III is an artist steeped deeply in the Detroit jazz tradition. A Motor City native, Jones is a prominent figure on the scene there, applying his talents across a variety of genres. That versatility is ever-present in his jazz playing but, to be clear about this, he is a jazz drummer ...

Trunino Lowe: The Vision

by Paul Rauch
November 5, 2023

You can try and look away. You can try to see the musician as a single entity that grew in the shadow of his native city's historic lineage. “Assess the young man's music on its own merits, without drawing comps to the past," would be the objective. But this was the trumpet, and the young man ...

Jim Crow's Tears

By Kris Johnson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Prologue; Minstrel Theme; Plantation Days; Never Approve; Pearl The Jezebel; Please Understand; Massa Come Down; Tan That Hide; The Final Straw; Jim Crow’s Tears; Motherless Child; These Chains; They Still Hate You; We Can’t Forget Our Past; Unbind My Eyes; No More Coonin’; We Can’t Live This Way; Modern Day Minstrel Show.

Kris Johnson: Jim Crow's Tears

by James Nadal
November 10, 2016

The term Jim Crow, reputedly, has its origins in West Africa, based on a Yoruba folk tale of a crow called Jim, who appeared lazy, yet was clever and lucky. This story was brought to America by the enslaved Africans, who embellished it, and turned it into a song and dance routine to take their minds ...