In a rare coalescing of supernatural talents, the stalwart squadron of Nicholas Payton, Wil Blades, and Otis McDonald linked up for a two-night engagement at Keys Jazz Bistro in the North Beach section of San Francisco.
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Stern Grove Festival, the nation’s oldest continual free summer music festival, kicked off 2023’s iteration on the afternoon of Sunday, June 18th with Grammy-award-winning jazz supergroup Snarky Puppy, with direct support from all-world guitarist Isaiah Sharkey.
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What’s on offer at Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa is the creme de la creme of contemporary Black American music, past, present, and future across three stages, all of it delivered in the breathtaking environs of Napa Valley.
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Hosted by STS9, Resonate Suwannee returned to the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL on March 30 through April 1. The event’s third iteration provided a phenomenal three-day experience, delivering high art and even higher vibes at one of the premiere festival venues in the U.S.
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The Du-Rites’ JAY MUMFORD, formerly known as the producer/emcee J-Zone, has worn many hats throughout his career—rapper, beat-maker, DJ, author/journalist, and finally drummer.
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Celebrating 30 years since first coalescing as a collective in early-’90s Boston, and two decades on from the famed tour that gave us Live in Tokyo, Lettuce is still mining new avenues of creative progression and elevating their craft.
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Love & Gravity is the dynamite new record from Object Heavy, thus far an underground phenomenon hailing from the ganja-farm hinterlands of Northern California.
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6th annual year-end compendium of albums, singles, EPs, DJ sets, and live releases of 2022. Includes Spotify and Soundcloud playlists. Curated by B.Getz
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Welcome BEN BLOOM and JASON GRAY of POLYRHYTHMICS! This wide-ranging conversation took place on the Sunday of Suwannee Rising, after the band dropped a pair of scorching sets on SOSMP
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On a glorious midsummer evening in Morrison, Colorado, future-funk-hop collective Lettuce and pioneering East Bay funk/soul icons Tower of Power took over the palatial Red Rocks Amphitheatre, both bands augmented by the 60-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. ‘
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