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The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Disasters Vol. 1 (Hot Cup) Bassist Moppa Elliott’s MOPDtK…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Vocalist Somi will release her full-length personal tribute to the legendary Miriam Makeba on March…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
The extraordinary life of South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba has been a constant…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
A new collection of a spiritual jazz legend’s previously unreleased recordings; a visionary guitarist’s personal…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
The winners of the 63rd GRAMMY Awards were announced on March 14 during a ceremony…
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This winter was supposed to be different for jazz vocalist Somi. The singer, who was…
Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and the chairman of the newly named Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, had a message for the thousands of spectators on hand at the Hamer Auditorium in Melbourne, Australia, on April 30, as well as for the millions of fans watching him online via live web stream: “Jazz,” he said, “is the universal language of peace.”
Say “G’day” to your 2019 International Jazz Day lineup. Today, the UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock announced the program for the 2019 edition of International Jazz Day, which will be launched in Australia and celebrated in more than 190 countries.
Somi’s vocals are delicate yet visceral, and her lyrics are equally powerful, illustrating the gentrification of Harlem’s African immigrant community.
Somi's latest record is personal, emotionally direct, politically poignant and stylistically progressive. Borrowing heavily from neo-soul, R&B and African pop, Petite Afrique flourishes in an aesthetic niche that harnesses the spontaneity and expressive range of the jazz musicians involved within the structures of intricately arranged songs. Somi’s vocals are delicate yet visceral, and her lyrics are equally powerful, illustrating the gentrification of Harlem’s African immigrant community. —Asher Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wSNeXwAFw
Our Song of the Day is "The Wild One," a dense yet surprisingly buoyant tune in which Somi's serene, cool-headed vocal melody threads its way through a spiky rhythmic landscape of woodblock, shaker and HighLife-style soukous guitar. The lyrics speak to personal independence and cultural pride. "She likes her tea with milk and rum and spices" Somi sings. "She wears her hair down and brags about her vices."