CERISSA McQUEEN is a gospel-trained soulstress from Virginia who cites her influences as Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and Stevie Wonder. Right now she’s busy promoting a new single, a gentle, pleading soulful...
TYRA LEVONE is a singer/songwriter from Washington DC. Her background is in gospel but if you’re familiar with her work, you’d know that. Ms. Levone possesses a splendid, old school soul voice, its nuances...
GREENWOOD AND HORN are new UK music making duo, though the pair Ian Greenwood and Ali Horn aren’t actually newcomers. Ian is a well-known dance music producer (often using various aliases) and he was ...
SUSANNE SMITH is a blue-eyed singer/songwriter who grew up in the black areas of Charlotte, North Carolina. There she got to love the music of what she calls “Old School Soul” and R&B music,...
Trained at Berklee College, CLIFF BEACH is a Washington DC- born indie soul and gospel singer/songwriter. He debuted in 2013 with the imaginatively titled EP, ‘Who The Funk Is Cliff Beach?’ and his latest...
Age is no barrier to creativity, as the prolific 84-year-old saxophonist, flautist and NEA Jazz Master CHARLES LLOYD undoubtedly proves with his new project, ‘Trio Of Trios,’ for Blue Note Records. The much-garlanded veteran...
We’ve been following the progress of US soul and jazz songbird, LORI WILLIAMS for a few years now. Not that well-known outside of her homeland, she’s built up small but devoted European fan base...
JULIAN JONAH is a London based musician who’s been on the scene since the 80s working chiefly on the house and acid jazz scenes. His best known outings are probably 1988’s ‘Jealousy and Lies’...
FUNK DIVISION is a soul outfit from the UK’s West Midlands. Fans of a certain vintage might know them as Sound Garden… but in 2013 the “gardeners” morphed into Funk Division, feeling that the...
