New York-based duo Acute Inflections – with singer/songwriter Elasea Douglas and bassist/composer Sadiki Pierre –…
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Forty years have passed since the death of beloved reggae icon Bob Marley, but his…
Monty Alexander’s new album, Wareika Hill: RastaMonk Vibrations, will be released August 23 on MACD…
His vast discography, which reaches back to 1964, showcases a repertoire spanning a broad range of jazz and Jamaican musical expressions — the American songbook and the blues, gospel and bebop, calypso and reggae. His latest album is Wareika Hill: RastaMonk Vibrations, a delightfully imaginative, unique and compelling interpretation of the music of Thelonious Monk. It’s been described as a “mind-boggling collective of classic Monk songs infused with a sensibility that melds the worlds of Jazz, Ska and Reggae into a unique melting pot of Monk with a twist.” It’s due out August 23 on MACD Records.