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Scott Mayo

With more than 30 years of music industry experience, Scott Mayo brings a unique musical perspective and skill set ranging from record production, composition, and musical direction to Grammy-winning writing, arranging and performing. He is one of the top call musicians in Los Angeles.

Mayo released his third album, Meu Brasil in January 2023. Meu Brasil is his first Brazilian project and features maestro Sergio Mendes, guitarists/composers Dori Caymmi and Guinga and the voice of Gracinha Leporace, among others.

“This album is an homage to a music and a country that has so deeply shaped my musical life. It’s called Meu Brasil because I wanted to share how the music has touched me and, from my Black American perspective, how I feel the music.”

Odd Bird

By Ada Bird Wolfe

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Odd Bird Bop; In The Shade; Something Fast, Something Light; Ericolloquy; Ashes, Ashes; Lover's Leap; The Wave; Samba Batucada; Did I Ever; Ordinary Man; Ocean, Mountain, River, Sky; An Egg.

Jazz Is Dead 18

By Tony Allen

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ebun; Steady Tremble; Oladipo; Don’t Believe The Dancers; Makoko; Lagos; No Beginning; No End.

Tony Allen: Jazz Is Dead 18

by Chris May
June 24, 2023

Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead continues its mission “to exalt the legacies of iconic musicians who have shaped the fabric of jazz across generations, genres and continents." The label's summer 2023 album features the late great Tony Allen. Jazz Is Dead 18 presents the Nigerian jazz and Afrobeat drum legend, who passed ...

Adrian Younge e Ali Shaheed Muhammad : Jazz Is Dead

by Angelo Leonardi
January 23, 2023

Hanno scelto un marchio provocatorio, Adrian Younge e Ali Shaheed Muhammad per l'etichetta discografica e la piattaforma di musica dal vivo che gestiscono a Los Angeles da alcuni anni. I due musicisti e produttori vengono dalla scena hip-hop: il primo ha lavorato con artisti di fama mondiale come Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief e ...

Jazz Is Dead 14

By Henry Franklin

Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2022
Track listing: Karibu; The Griot; People's Revolution; Memories Lost; Feedback; Cafe Negro; African Sun; A Song For Sigrid.

September 2022: Jazz Child

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2022

Sheila Jordan Live At Mezzrow's Cellar Music 2022 Nonagenarian Sheila Jordan is a jazz singer enjoying an incandescent twilight. In late 2021, Jordan appeared on Roseanna Vitro's Sing A Song of Bird (Skyline Records, 2021) singing a song contra-composed in her honor from Charlie Parker's “Cheryl," -"Sheila, Jazz Child." Jordan, ...

Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 14

by Chris May
September 25, 2022

Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead label is a moveable feast when it comes to consistency. In its fourteen albums date, there have been some great ones, some not so great ones and a couple of duds. With bassist Henry Franklin, however, the label has come up with a blinder, its most satisfying ...

Ada Bird Wolfe: Odd Bird

by Richard J Salvucci
July 15, 2022

There is a style of singing--midway between conversation and conventional vocal technique—which can only be called talk-singing, or something to that effect. It puts considerable weight on the meaning of the song, the words themselves, rather than the melody per se. Chances are, one could not hum such a tune if one wanted to. To some ...