Today is Philip Bailey’s 72nd birthday and what better way to celebrate one of the premier falsetto singers of all-time than to look back at the lead single from his third solo album, Chinese Wall. Prior to the release of Chinese Wall, Bailey had already lent his incredible voice to…
I admittedly was about half a year late to the Big K.R.I.T party. I watched people on my Twitter feed keep going back and forth virtually yelling “LEMME TELL YA BOUT DIS COUNTRY SHIT!” and wondering just what the hell they were talking about. It’s the fall of 2010. Little…
The early 1980s were a tough time for Black musicians as R&B/Funk bands were caught up in the anti-disco avalanche that killed the genre in the late 1970s. Ever the innovators, Black musicians and producers embraced modern technology, which took away from bands and session players of various instruments, but…
To say it’s good to have one of the true talents of R&B back is an understatement. After a few years between projects and releases, Miguel is back on the scene with the Scoop Deville-produced single “Give it to me,” a mid-tempo thumper that is all about working towards getting…
That is the (altered) mind of 29-year-old George Clinton in the winter of 1971 when Funkadelic recorded their third album Maggot Brain, which was released 50 years ago today. Clinton says that he and the late, great guitarist Eddie Hazel were trippin’ on acid when he told Eddie to play…
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have waited 35-plus years to release an album under their own names after giving countless acts in the music industry scores of hits and classics in that same time period. Their first “solo” effort, Jam & Lewis: Vol. 1, proves that good things indeed come…
One of the more exciting developments for this music fan is this new era of jazz and jazz-influenced artists/musicians putting a modern spin one of the more elite genres in music. Thundercat of course stands out among the pack of this new wave of artists, but one talented young musician…