London keyboard wizard Bill Laurance and Californian multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Michael League are best known for their roles in Snarky Puppy, the Grammy-winning, US-based band they co-founded. Now though, the pair have joined forces outside...
FRED DAVIS is a little known blues man. He worked in and around Cleveland and fronted a band – Dave & The Blues Express. For reasons never explained his career terminated when he was...
Over the past year or so, Toronto-based CLAIRE DAVIS has emerged as a contemporary soul contender. She’s made real impact via a series of quality singles, the last being a sweet and lovely throwback...
Ace’s KENT subsidiary imprint continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a plethora of vinyl releases to satisfy the most discerning of soul collectors. Amongst the upcoming 7”s is a disc on the Houston...
By common consent one of last year’s best contemporary soul album’s was RAJA-NEE’S ‘The Sovereign Of 14742’. (see our review… https://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/reviews/raja-nee-the-sovereign-of-14742-jarf-music-group/ ). The album went #1 on both the Amazon and UK Soul chart...
BOBBY WASHINGTON is an American indie, R&B/soul singer/producer who gained mileage with his singles, ‘Burn It Down’, ‘Not Just A One Night Stand’ and ‘Feanin’’ both highlighting Mr W’s unique, idiosyncratic but appealing vocal...
The steel pan isn’t an instrument that immediately springs to mind when discussing jazz, but steel pan virtuoso LEON FOSTER THOMAS is on a mission to change that. Leon has a Bachelor of Music...
The award-winning, OBE-decorated British jazz singer CLAIRE MARTIN follows up 2020’s Songs And Stories, her acclaimed hook-up with rising trombonist/arranger Callum Au, with another collaborative venture: this time with noted US conductor/arranger SCOTT DUNN...
Now in its 47th year, the annual, world-renowned North Sea Jazz Festival returns to Rotterdam’s Ahoy Centre this July promising a star-studded gala of performers spread across fifteen stages. As the world’s largest indoor...
