Results for "Marvin Gaye"

Dave Stryker: Blue Soul

by Jerome Wilson
June 29, 2020

Germany's WDR Big Band has welcomed a great variety of musicians such as Fred Hersch, Michel Camilo, Ambrose Akinmusire and Jimmy Heath as guest soloists over the years. On this occasion they provide an invigorating backdrop for the springy and soulful guitar of Dave Stryker. The set list on this CD finds Stryker and ...

A response to yet another senseless public murder of a Black Citizen by officers of the law

by Wynton Marsalis
June 8, 2020

With the crescendo of public outcry and proliferation of opinions and justifiable expressions of outrage by so many experts, officials and popular celebrities, I fear there's little room or need for yet another person voicing a commonly held opinion. I also believe that the everyday tragedies that are commonplace and routine to our everyday ...

Idris Ackamoor: An Afro-Futurist Odyssey

by Chris May
June 3, 2020

In summer 2020, Idris Ackamoor will release Shaman! on Britain's Strut label. It is his third album with the post-2015 incarnation of his 1970s band, The Pyramids. It reunites Ackamoor with flautist Margaux Simmons, with whom he had co-founded The Pyramids in 1972. Ackamoor's route to Afro-Futurist jazz began in the US in ...

Dave Stryker with Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band: Blue Soul

by Jack Bowers
May 17, 2020

Bob Mintzer had an idea. The renowned tenor saxophonist, who serves as principal conductor of Cologne, Germany's world-class WDR Big Band, had made several appearances as guest artist with guitarist Dave Stryker's New York-based organ trio and was so impressed that he thought it would be a good idea to re-orchestrate some of Stryker's music for ...

Strata-East: Seizing the Time

by Chris May
April 19, 2020

Operating on minimum finance and maximum passion, Brooklyn's Strata-East label was a pivotal platform for the spiritual-jazz movement that emerged during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1970s. Its closest contemporary comparator was Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Both were non-profit organisations. The AACM was non-profit by design. With Strata-East, co-founder Charles Tolliver ...

Jazz In Paris

by Martin McFie
March 19, 2020

Various VenuesParis, France March 11-15, 2020 jny:Paris is a timeless and beautiful city, uniform in its Hausmann architecture and relaxed in its easy, cool charm. Not all jazz clubs here have the same presentation. These are some of the clubs and the styles of music being presented live in the city. ...

Jonathan Goldman: Bump and Let It Slide

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 27, 2020

On Saturday February 29, Spanglish Fly will celebrate completing their tenth full year as America's leading producer and exporter of the wicked hot musical sauce known as Latin boogaloo with a special anniversary performance hosted by the legendary Brooklyn hotspot Barbes. The quintessential musical melting pot Spanglish Fly features musicians with roots in Puerto ...

Marvin Gaye

You're the Man

By Marvin Gaye

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2019
Track listing: You're the Man; The World Is Rated X" (alternate mix); Piece of Clay; Where Are We Going?; (alternate mix 2); I'm Gonna Give You Respect; Try It, You'll Like It; You Are That Special One; We Can Make It Baby; My Last Chance" (Salaam Remi remix); Symphony" (Salaam Remi LP mix); I'd Give My Life for You" (Salaam Remi LP mix); Woman of the World; Christmas in the City; You're the Man" (alternate version); I Want to Come Home for Christmas; I'm Going Home; Checking Out (Double Clutch)

Gary Alesbrook: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 25, 2019

It's hard to believe this is only trumpeter Gary Alesbrook's second record under his own name. Like Venus emerging fully-formed from the head of Zeus, Alesbrook's tasteful proficiency is truly startling until you realize it was honed outside of jazz, with years of busy sideman efforts in other types of music. Another surprise is ...