Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
D'Angelo ft. Princess: Sometimes It Snows in April
Music guest D'Angelo pays a moving tribute to Prince by covering his classic "Sometimes It Snows in April" with help from Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum's cover band, Princess, for the Tonight Show audience.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Kamasi Washington and the Next Step, Scala, London
In being at Scala to see Kamasi Washington's unscheduled pop-up show when he and his band should've been playing in Paris, I heard echoes of the past and saw the present but it was the future that resonated loud and clear. Divine energy. A truly #epic performance by a superior, otherworldly band.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Tuesday, July 07, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Debate About French Muslim Identity Plays Out In Hip-Hop
As part of our stories about Muslims in Western Europe, commentator Hisham Aidi, author of the book Rebel Music, talks about how music factors into the cultural differences between French Muslims.
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Monday, December 08, 2014
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
D’Angelo Gives GQ His First Interview in 12 Years
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| Thanks to Clutch for posting |
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Pure Class: Robert Glasper Experiment
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| Robert Glasper |
I’ve reviewed Robert Glasper before so I
won’t say much. Except that his latest album, Black
Radio is the best new release to come out since his last one (2009’s Double Booked).
It’s testament to the pianist and his three-man band that they managed to fill the soulless Barbican
Hall with such a complete sound that you could almost forget that you were in the
cavernous space. Playing for close to three hours, it was such an intimate and
transcendent experience that RCDC (or RCDM, in this case) could have played for
another three and no one would have minded. The show was recorded for BBC Radio
3 so check it out when it airs in early June.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
This was Whitney Houston
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| "You Give Good Love," "Saving All My Love," "How Will I Know," "All At Once"... too many good tracks to mention. Still remember every word. |
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| Allmusic got it wrong on this one. Every track on this album is a classic. |
RIP Whitney.
Monday, February 06, 2012
Music lives: D'Angelo live in London
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| Pure. artistic. genius: D'Angelo |
It's been over a decade and it proved to be well worth the wait. James Brown, Fela Kuti, Sly Stone, Prince... D'Angelo is back. In a set that lasted just over two hours, D'Angelo grooved through his back catalogue of tunes from his critically acclaimed albums, 1995's Brown Sugar and 2000's wonderfully intense, Voodoo. The Virginia native had the audience wrapped around his finger from the first bar to the last. From the opener, Playa Playa to the album classics, The Root and One Mo Gin ..
The band were tighter than a leg cast. There was no room for improvement. It was like being party to a studio jam session where everything went down in one take, maintaining the looseness of the jam. It's easy to forget that D'Angelo is a musician as well as a vocalist but we were definitely reminded that he is a multi-instrumentalist equally at home on the guitar strings as the piano keys.
An intimate moment came when the band left the stage and D'Angelo was alone with his audience. He went through a medley of hits from Brown Sugar accompanied by the keyboard and the audience.
Sold out and with good reason, we all knew that we were in the presence of greatness and we were witnessing the re-claiming of a crown. The King is back. Long live The King.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
An anthem for our times
In these times of global social and political unrest, here's a little gem of a tune to soothe fraught minds.
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