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The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967

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.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sly Stone, Tessa Souter, Cedar Walton

Read "Sly Stone, Tessa Souter, Cedar Walton" reviewed by David Brown


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 ...

News: Video / DVD

Sly Stone (1943-2025)

Sly Stone (1943-2025)

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Phil Haynes: Return to Electric

Read "Return to Electric" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


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 ...

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Article: Book Review

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

Read "Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - A Memoir (Paperback)" reviewed by Doug Collette


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

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

Read "Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound" reviewed by Chris May


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 ...

Article: Album Review

Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix

Read "Phoenix" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A dodici anni dal debutto funk di Retox e dopo il sentito omaggio a John e Alice Coltrane di tre anni fa (Pursuance: The Coltranes) la sassofonista newyorchese realizza il disco della prima maturità, dimostrando di saper padroneggiare le molte influenze assimilate dall'infanzia. Influenze che partono dalla musica latina che ascoltava nel quartiere di Washington Heights ...

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Article: Album Review

Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

Read "Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


With the release of his chart-topping, funk-fueled Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd found himself in a volatile place in jazz circles. He was being hailed as having finally stepped out of Miles Davis' considerable shadow, while simultaneously many found the album to be Byrd's selling out his bop legacy for chart success. As most defining ...

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Article: Live Review

Kronos Festival at SFJAZZ Center

Read "Kronos Festival at SFJAZZ Center" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Kronos Quartet SFJAZZ Center Kronos Festival 2022 San Francisco, CA April 7-9, 2022 Founded in 1973, Kronos Quartet has long been one of San Francisco's musical treasures. Yet, because the quartet tours internationally, a performance in its home city is an event to take note of. The three-day Kronos Festival ...


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