Malcom Strachan – Point Of No Return
Scottish jazz trumpeter Malcolm Strachan has been playing professionally since leaving Leeds College of Music in 1996. He was one of the founders of the horn section of the funk band The Haggis Horns.
Malcolm has already played or toured with Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jamiroquai, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Jess Glynne, The Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band, Black Honey, The New Mastersounds, Abstract Orchestra and Blue Note Records jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson.
His debut album ‘About Time’ saw the light of day in March 2020, and this is its successor. The album was officially released on January 27th on Haggis Records, and reached me through Willwork4funk.
This new album celebrates Duke Ellington’s music as it is Planet D Nonet‘s favorite music. It is situated between 1956 and 1963.
Singer, saxophonist, arranger, composer and founding member of The New York Voices are all aspects of Darmon Meader.
American jazz singer Libby York grew up in Chicago in a musical family. Her father sometimes sang in big bands and wrote a nightlife column for a student magazine. Both mother and father played the piano, and the house was filled with the music of Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, etc.
American composer, pianist and producer Dan Alan Levine is currently enjoying success with his new smooth jazz single ‘Our Kind of Love’.
In 2018, the band No Substitution was founded by German guitarist Arndt Worbis. The group performs contemporary jazz, with elements of blues, jazz, funk, soul, Latin and pop.
American singer Mary Foster Conklin was born in New Jersey, but moved to New York to work in theater. When she teamed up with drummer & composer Art Lillard’s Heavenly Band she transformed herself into a singer.
The latest project by the American trombonist Eric Goletz will not be released until February 10, but I have already received a review copy.
Neo soul singer Rebecca Jade from San Diego has been performing with Sheila E. and Sir Elton John for years, as well as at jazz festivals around the world. However, she has never released a CD with her own songs.
African-American David Williams used to have a career as an MC and DJ during the early days of rap & hip-hop (think of Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash) as a composer, producer and musical visionary.
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