Playlist June 22nd.

Norman Brown
Richard Anthony Davis
Kaire
Bob Baldwin
Fredrik Karlson 
and more.

Aaron Brown and Moments Notice

   

 Aaron Brown and Moments Notice

Aron Brown and Moments Notice is a group of well seasoned pros that play the original compositions  of Aaron Brown. After studying music a CCNY in Harlem Aaron went on to be an active session player for recordings, gigs and the likes in the northeast area. As a former member of the group "KARAVAN" who had their first record deal with Columbia Records. 

Over time he embraced the emerging technologies of MIDI,sampling, analog/ digital audio engineering and  digital editing. Armed with these skills he incorporated them into his writing, arranging and production skills. Aaron then establish BOP BROWN PRODUCTIONS, where he honed his skills of recording, editing, arranging and producing music for his many clients. Next he started Phoenix Music & Media Inc. with Juan Coon.

Long Beach Jazz Festival

http://longbeachjazzfestival.com/line-up/

Now playing Chilled Mix

The Coast Radio

The Best of Chick Corea

http://chickcorea.com/

An innovator and pioneer, since embarking on a solo career in 1966, Chick has been at the forefront of jazz, both as a renowned pianist forging new ground with his acoustic jazz bands and as an innovative electric keyboardist with Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, and now the electro/acoustic Vigil.

His extensive discography boasts numerous albums, beginning with his 1968 classic, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.

Bobby Timmons

Bobby Timmons was known for his funky style, and as one of the founders of soul-jazz. This is his début as leader.
This is a classic Riverside set that has been reissued on CD in the Original Jazz Classics series. Pianist Bobby Timmons by early 1960 had already had successful stints with Art Blakey (where he contributed "Moanin'") and Canonball Adderley (writing "This Here" and "Date Dere").

For his first recording as a leader, Timmons (whose "funky" style was beginning to become very influential) performs those three hits along with his own "Joy Ride" and five standards in a trio with bassist Sam Jones and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Always more than just a soul-jazz pianist, Timmons (who effectively takes "Lush Life" unaccompanied) became a bit stereotyped later in his career but at this early stage was at the peak of his creativity.

Rewind/ TCR with MJ

Ramsey Lewis

     Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ramsey Lewis Sr. and Pauline Lewis. Lewis began taking piano lessons at the age of four. At 15 he joined his first jazz band, the Cleffs. The seven-piece group provided Lewis his first involvement with jazz; he would later join Cleffs drummer Isaac "Red" Holt and bassist Eldee Young to form the Ramsey Lewis Trio.

The trio started as primarily a jazz unit and released their first album, Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing, in 1956. Following their 1965 hit "The In Crowd" (the single reached No. 5 on the pop charts, and the album No. 2) they concentrated more on pop material. Young and Holt left in 1966 to form Young-Holt Unlimited and were replaced by Cleveland Eaton and Maurice White. White left to form Earth, Wind & Fire and was replaced by Morris Jennings in 1970. Later, Frankie Donaldson and Bill Dickens replaced Jennings and Eaton; Felton Crews also appeared on many 1980's releases.

By 1966, Lewis was one of the nation’s most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with "The In Crowd", "Hang On Sloopy", and "Wade in the Water". All three singles each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs.  Many of his recordings attracted a large non-jazz audience. In the 1970s, Lewis often played electric piano, although by later in the decade he was sticking to acoustic and using an additional keyboardist in his groups. ^Wikipedia

UNAM- Is That So?

 New single is called "Is That So?" it's going for pre-order/preview on Monday and will be released on the 18. both Radio version and the 6 minute long Album version will be available along with a Playalong Mix!!! @skytownrecords

Find your Freedom in Music!!!

Marcus Miller- Renaissance

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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers

 Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The Jazz Messengers were formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s".
He was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981),the Grammy Hall of Fame  (in 1998 and 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1991
Wikipedia
 
On December 17, 1947, Blakey led a group known as "Art Blakey's Messengers" in his first recording session as a leader, for Blue Note Records. The records were released as 78s at the time and two of the songs were released on the New Sounds 10" LP compilation (BLP 5010). This octet included Kenny Dorham, Howard Bowe, Sahib Shihab, Musa Kaleem, Ernest Thompson, Walter Bishop, Jr., and LaVerne Barker.
Around the same time in 1947or 1949. Blakey led a big band called "Seventeen Messengers." The band proved be financially unstable and broke up soon after.The Messengers name then went dormant for several years.

Blakey and Horace Silver began working together in the early 1950s. Some cite the group that included Blakey, Silver, Kenny Dorham, Lou Donaldson and Gene Ramey in 1953 as the original Jazz Messengers.On February 21, 1954, a group billed as the "Art Blakey Quintet" produced the live set of records called A Night at Birdland. The quintet included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson and Curly Russell. These records were quite successful, and some cite this date as the beginning of the Jazz Messengers.