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Morphine – You Speak My Language
“Low Rock” is Morphine’s unique combination of jazz, blues and pop/rock, sung with darkly comic and ironic lyrics. Their guitarless sound relied on an unusual combination of baritone/tenor sax, percussion and a two string slide bass. Morphine was formed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in 1990 by Mark Sandman (vocals, bass) and Dana Colley (saxophone). Jerome Dupree became the group’s drummer in [...]
The Roots – What They Do
The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning hip hop group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. Inspired by the “hip-hop band” concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, the Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced [...]
Cake – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Cake is a band formed in 1991 in Sacramento, California. It has had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from its five recorded albums. Although Cake’s music is often classified as alternative or indie rock, it combines multiple musical genres, such as funk, ska, pop, jazz, rap, and country. Cake’s music features droll lyrics rife [...]
Joe Bataan – Call My Name
Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942, in Spanish Harlem, New York City) is an Afro-Filipino American Latin R&B musician from New York. In 1965, he turned his attention to music and formed his first band, Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African American [...]
Róisín Murphy – The Truth
[blipfm http://] The solo discography of Róisín Murphy, an Irish electronic music singer, consists of two studio albums, two live albums, seven singles, and five music videos. Murphy debuted in 1995 as lead singer of the electronic music duo Moloko. The duo achieved success in the United Kingdom, producing four top twenty singles. Moloko broke [...]
Philharmonic Weed – Puxa Lá
[blipfm http://] Reggae, rock, afro, hip-hop, drum-bass, funk, samba and jazz, here is PHILHARMONIC WEED. PHILHARMONIC WEED were born in 1997 and they immediately started a whole new cultural movement in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. With backgrounds in Mozambique, Angola, Cape Vert and Portugal, and living in places like Brazil and Saudi Arabia, they started [...]
General Electrics – Techno Kid
#1 General Electrics is a free electron Behind this name hides RV (Hervé Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60’s and 70’s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi’s Spy [...]
Mark Ronson – Just (feat. Alex Greenwald)
Mark Ronson is an English Brit Award and three-times Grammy award-winning music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. His second album, Version focused on the British music scene, with covers of songs by the likes of Radiohead, Maxïmo Park, The Smiths, Amy Winehouse, The Zutons and Kaiser Chiefs. The album includes three top ten [...]
Nina Simone – Sinnerman
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated american singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term “black classical music”. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her [...]
Fela Kuti – Billy Jean Remix
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk and Traditional African Chant. It is characterized by having African style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The “endless groove” is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, muted guitar, [...]