composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Go away. Why won't you skedaddle? Got a nasty hitch in your git-along? Your get-up-and-go got up and went? Turn your toes and make your way yonder, then beyond. Why aren't you heading out? Oh, you came here with a purpose, did you? And you won't go until you get what you want. Boo yah . So, what was it you wanted from me (as if I couldn't guess this, since I am, after all, a seer of renown). You want...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
This week we go back to the early years with a visit to New Orleans blues piano professor, Champion Jack Dupree. Our contemporary travels take us to Cameroun via France for the exciting work of Sandra Nkaké. We close with five versions of "Betcha By Golly Wow" featuring The Stylistics, Cool Riddims and Sista Teedy, [...]
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
Norman Otis Richmond of CKLN radio and Roy Heron at the University of Toronto on September 13, 2008. The photo was taken after a lecture delivered by Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW editor. (Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe). Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos 30th Anniversary of Black Music Month Norman (Otis) Richmond will appear on the African Woman and Family Saturday, June 6th between 12-1pm...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
The lives and careers of Supremes founding member Florence Ballad, Minnie Riperton, Shalamar and Melba Moore will be the focus of TV One's second installment of its "Unsung" series.
The Mo'Kelly Report (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Norman Connors (born March 1, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz drummer. Connors became interested in jazz as a child, and began playing drums early, once sitting in for Elvin Jones at a John Coltrane performance he attended while in middle school. Connors studied music at Temple University and Juilliard; his first recording was [...]
Kevin Nottingham: This Is Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 04/12/2009
Phyllis Hyman: “Magic Mona” From the Fish That Saved Pittsburgh Soundtrack (1979) [See post to listen to audio] Method Man & Redman: “Ayo” From the album Blackout 2 (2009) Produced by Pete Rock [See post to listen to audio] Trav Williams: “Something New” From the album The Trickle Down (2008) Produced by 20 Keys [See post to listen to audio] When I first heard...
SOHH Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
Keri Hilson isn't the only r&b chick with an album out today, one of my favorite soul singers Leela James is dropping her Shanachie Records album Let's Do It Again today as well and I had a chance to talk to her about what it took to make the project, as well as the new look she's rocking on the album cover.
Honey Soul (Free subscription) | 03/14/2009
By Ben J. Brown, Jr. With a voice that is thick in all the right places like she is, Leela James is a distinctive soul/blues vocalist. After dropping her debut album A Change Is Gonna Come back in 2005, she is back with her sophomore effort Let’s Do It Again. Since blues and funk [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/25/2009
TV News: Orders eight episodes from A. Smith & Co. -- A. Smith & Co. has received an order from TV One to produce eight new episodes of the biography series “Unsung.”
breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
Norman Connors demonstrates music doesn’t have to be profound to be deep—here is the soundtrack for the deeptitude of romance.
Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Above: More pics from the Double Visions reception at Space 7:10 on Friday, December 5th. Bassey Ipki performed One Good Reason To Stay, a Poem for the late Phyllis Hyman.
Black And Married With Kids (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
For this week's Videos We Love segment we've made a tribute to the artist featured on this week's TV One Unsung series. Great music, check it out!
Yazmar.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
TVONE put together a wonderful documentary called “UNSUNG” on amazing talent “Phillis Hyman”…Her voice was one of the best! Clive Davis introduced Whitney Houston to Arista Records, and at that point life wasn’t much the same for Phillis. Very interesting look into her life, career and untimely suicide in 1995
The Starting Five (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Since you men won’t let the Top Ten Sexiest chill on ice, I thought I’d take this opportunity and turn your attention to music. Who makes your soul shake with a mere whisper of her voice? I like the ones who soothe with their vocal and spiritual sensuality and give me songs I listen to [...]
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Vocal effects, T-Pain, and Ludacris have their place — pop-oriented R&B singles fronted by lifelike automatons with limited range, for instance — but beyond cynical sales interests, they make zero sense on a Jennifer Hudson album. Anyone who has heard Hudson sing, whether through American Idol, Dreamgirls, or even that baffling duet on Meat Loaf’s [...]
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