And we move on from a lady Andreya Triana featuring in our audio in the mix with Shae Fiol to a fully fledged video of the single “Lost Where I Belong” off her debut album release out on 23rd of August 2010 on Ninja Tune Records. A sister’s soothing voice on a fine jazzy & soul [...]
February 17, 2010
The Far East we go, Nippon [Japan "Land of the Rising Sun"] being precise, with some contemporary smooth sounds by Laidbook. Japanese musicians make soulful jazzy/hip hop like whoa! for instance that DJ Mitsu on the Promise In Love joint, simply classy. Laidbook are a quartet of artists with Mabanua playing drums, Shingo Suzuki on bass, Yukihiro [...]
February 4, 2010
A gem of a track by a brother singer José James with the simplest of words “Code” from album release “Black Magic” on Brownswood Recordings [Gilles Peterson label]. “Code” by José James, so fresh, so clean with production by classy Flying Lotus and on video directorial duties, Mike Vargas and Moni Pineda [of friendswelove]. A bit of cool [...]
January 27, 2010
Take a jug of Jazz, two teaspoons of Soul and a twist of R & B… then add a cup full of Gospel, a sprinkle of Reggae and a pinch of Latin, served with Raw Emotion ~There you have the YolanDa Brown sound. [source: Myspace Bio] YolanDa Brown is on the whole multi instrumentalist throne, but [...]
January 23, 2010
On a quiet and tranquil day in 1976 at the 10th Montreux Jazz Festival, a very attentive audience in anticipation of one talented individual to grace the stage, the legendary singer, pianist and civil rights activist, Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Legend Eunice Kathleen Waymon passed in 2003, her physical body has departed us but her immortal [...]
January 13, 2010
A music break with this freshness, a sister Speech Debelle’s been winning a few accolades and acclaim with last year’s debut album effort “Speech Therapy” through Big Dada Records. This is the 4tn track deep into the album, an infectious and conscious soulful hip hoppy jazzy number entitled “Spinnin’” with themes of positivity, hopeful that things [...]
January 11, 2010
Another week people, another… keep on singing your praises. Here is some fresh music, known about a sister Melissa Czarnik and the Eric Mire Band since last year through 91.7 WMSE “Local Live“ 6-2-09 EP [a freebie], a little snippet into what a lady is about. From the spin of digital, very jazzy, different, organic/acoustic conscious hip [...]
December 24, 2009
Obviously not digging thoroughly on this for instance ahem… never knew producer and drummer Apple Juice Kid like Daru Jones, fronts the classy The Remix Project we reviewed sometime ago, ah well {laughing out loud}. Apple Juice Kid took these back and further ashore with remixing down to a simplistic classic on classic of two jazz [...]
December 2, 2009
A sister came to the attention via a status update by poet and teacher SpeaksBeliefs, in reference to Esperanza Spalding, a multi-talented soul/jazz Spanish & English vocalist, composer, guitarist, bassist and one is sure that’s only mentioning a few… Esperanza Spalding is like one of those musicians from back in the day, way back.. one can [...]
November 26, 2009
In a jazz state of mind no pun intended, its refreshing to step away from time to time, from the quality of electronica flying rampant at the minute and back down to the basic hard instrumental composition of this age, (there is that as well you know, {laughing out loud}); sax, trumpets, drums, piano, guitar [...]
November 23, 2009
This quality track of 10 years ago “The Truth” is from the debut album So… How’s Your Girl? by former the hip hop duo Handsome Boy Modeling School (Dan the Automator & Prince Paul [De la Soul Fame]) and features Róisín Murphy (Moloko fame) this has got to be classic, right? “The Truth’s” vibe and groove [...]
November 20, 2009
Onthebuzz has been in sleep & hibernation for some days on other affairs duty, but here to re-continue the blog/post malarkey. Assembled in 2008, with this jazzy hip hop collective I can only see the rise up the ladder and big things in future hopefully, Sound of Rum (rapper Kate Tempest, guitarist/bassist/loop-pedalist Archie Marsh and drummer [...]
October 29, 2009
This all round the way brother Ishfaq does possess some quality as an aspiring producer. This groovy “I Can See” track by soul collective Jazzanova and remixed by Ishfaq is a refreshingly jazzy soul quality piece. Ishfaq is a producer on the rise I think, with sampling some of his production works and becoming delights, on his [...]
October 16, 2009
We previewed and featured a sister Alisa Ohri (updated with new video) on the jazzy soul music in August. This is her a recent live gig I will call it her second home ;) at the Zinc Bar. Alisa Ohri performs “Could It Be” from her debut album Cuz I Feel. A Laidback vibes of [...]
September 24, 2009
Being a fan not a fanatic {laughing out loud} of Jose James and saw a status update @beyondjazz via ABTv and decided to share the love on this blog channel, a fine tribute performance to the legend jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (RIP). Have a butchers and let it be known.
February 25, 2010