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Rap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic ...
Kyrbgrinder: Chronicles of a Dark Machine
by Glenn Astarita
This London-based rock trio brings old school rock standards to the table, featuring award--winning drummer Johanne James (Threshold) who also mans the the lead vocal duties. Even though the band lays down fervent pulses amid Aaron Waddingham's (Land of Cain) weighty guitar phrasings and Dave Lugay's sturdy bass lines, the primary focus here is firmed up ...
Jacqui Naylor Invites Fans To Rate Songs At Upcoming Yoshi's Concert
Tuesday, November 17th , vocalist and songwriter Jacqui Naylor returns to Yoshi’s in Oakland with new music and the opportunity for fans to vote. Guests will be invited to rate each song on a 1-5 scale and the artist will include the highest rated on her tenth recording, due out 2016, Ruby Star Records, eOne Distribution. ...
Moonlight Saving Time: Meeting At Night
by Roger Farbey
"Clouds" opens this set with a barely audible intake of breath, Emily Wright's dulcet voice, augmented in resplendent harmony by multi-tracking, is instantly indicative of her prodigious ability. The “Englishness" of Wright's vocal delivery is also obvious on the title track (with words by Victorian poet Robert Browning), where at times she channels that doyenne of ...
Kansas Smitty's House Band: Kansas Smitty's
by Bruce Lindsay
Kansas Smitty's is the debut album from the eight-piece Kansas Smitty's House Band, a London-based octet with an open approach to the integration of many jazz styles. The result is a refreshingly original debut album filled with some of the catchiest and most engaging music around. House bands have a long history, playing regular ...
St. Germain: Refueling His Passion
by Nenad Georgievski
This article was translated from French. Every once in a while a new album will force you to reconfigure and re-evaluate all of the definitions and assumptions one has had about music in order to realize how vast and endless the possibilities of music can be. When it comes to producer and composer Ludovic ...
Kai Hoffman: Luckiest Girl Alive
by Bruce Lindsay
Kai Hoffman is the self-confessed Luckiest Girl Alive, or so this album would have it. She certainly sounds like a contender for the title across most of the 14 songs, crafting a definite and infectious feel-good atmosphere along with her quintet. Hoffman was raised in Boston but has been based on London for some ...
Convergence Quartet: Owl Jacket
by John Sharpe
Owl Jacket forms the fourth release over a nine year period from the Convergence Quartet. At the outset, few would have predicted that it would become a going concern, uniting as it did two unknown young English improvisers in pianist Alexander Hawkins and bassist Dominic Lash and two of the brighter emerging talents on the New ...
London Mayor Launches Plan To Save Music Venues
As an alarmingly increasing number of live music venues are closing owing to financial challenges and it becomes harder for artists to find venues to play, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is establishing a task force to keep the city's music scene alive. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Live music everywhere is facing ...
Jaga Jazzist's "Starfire" Tour at Electric Brixton on November 5th
Soundcrash is very proud to announce the experimental jazz ensemble Jaga Jazzist will be taking to the stage at Electric Brixton on Thursday the 5th of November to showcase their incredible genre blending style of music. Jaga Jazzist combine and incredible array of instruments with an electronic otherworldliness that has always made them a band that’s ...
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