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Sly Stone

Born: March 15, 1943

Iconic Music in Film: Boomer Edition

by Alan Bryson
July 1, 2026

One of the pleasures of looking back at film music from the boomer years is realizing how quickly the walls were coming down. Classical themes turned into jazz-funk hits. Soul records won Oscars. Rock songs became character development. Bluegrass, blues, disco, Latin jazz, and spaghetti-western minimalism all found their way onto the screen, and in the ...

Steven Bernstein: ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance

by Doug Collette
June 2, 2026

Rightfully described as a thinking (wo)man's jazz musician, trumpeter-composer-bandleader Steven Bernstein makes deeply cerebral music no matter whether with his own ensembles such as Sex Mob and Millennial Territory Orchestra or in heady collaborations with other artists such The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (see Race Riot Suite (Royal Potato Family, 2011)).  In fact, the ...

Reimagining Bitches Brew at the New York City Winter Jazzfest

by Dave Kaufman
January 26, 2026

Each year, the New York City Winter JazzFest, in collaboration with the music-promotion collective Pique-Nique, presents its “Take Two" series, which revisits and reimagines landmark recordings from the jazz canon. Previous editions have paid tribute to historically significant works, including a memorable presentation of Max Roach's Members, Don't Git Weary (Leo Lab, 1968) several years ago. ...

The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967

By Sly and the Family Stone

Label: High Moon Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Ain’t Got Nobody (For Real); Skate Now; Show Me; What Is Soul?; I Can’t Turn You Loose; Try A Little Tenderness; Baby I Need Your Lovin’; Pucker Up Buttercup; Saint James Infirmary; I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor) / Funky Broadway.

Sly Stone, Tessa Souter, Cedar Walton

by David Brown
June 26, 2025

This week we remember progressive soul and funk pioneer Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone with two interpretations of his classic tunes: “Family Affair" from Bobby Hutcherson and “If You Want Me to Stay" from David Murray. Songs featuring some wonderful “oohs" and “aahs" in the background will be follow from Nina Simone and ...

Sly Stone (1943-2025)

June 10, 2025

Sly Stone, whose late-1960s eclectic brand of polished Bay Area funk-pop launched a music revolution that influenced artists ranging from Miles Davis to Stevie Wonder, Prince and all the major funk bands that followed in the 1970s and beyond, died yesterday. He was 82. The singer-songwriter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist was a fashion trend-setter and tireless composer ...

Phil Haynes: Return to Electric

by Dan McClenaghan
April 29, 2025

The band Return to Forever was a seminal jazz fusion group led by pianist Chick Corea. The eponymous first album, on ECM Records, was released in 1972, opening doors for scores of other like-minded ensembles. Electricity was a main aspect of the move away from acoustic jazz. The Fender Rhodes piano and plugged-in bass and guitars ...

Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - A Memoir (Paperback)

by Doug Collette
December 21, 2024

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir: (paperback) Sly Stone with Ben Greenman 336 Pages ISBN-13: 978-1250872265 Macmillan Publishing/AuwaBooks2024 Reading Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir, it' is hard to know who to compliment most (even if no additional content appears in the ...

Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound: Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound

by Chris May
August 3, 2024

Britain has been enriched by immigrants from many parts of the world, but people arriving from Spanish-speaking Central America and the Caribbean have been relatively few in number, and far less visible. So in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when salsa edged out of Spanish Harlem towards the US mainstream, Britain was mostly left out ...