Soul Clap – EFunk
Soul Clap release EFunk, their highly anticipated debut LP on Wolf + Lamb. The culinary verdict: Best served chilled, goes well with cheese. Soul Clap have been putting out electro and house singles…
Sing It Loud: Jazz and Protest in the Music of Nina Simone & Billie Holiday
Nina Simone and Billie Holiday are two of the greats. Matriarchs in a long line of enlightened performers. They are remembered for the fire in their bellies as much as the warmth in…
Sun Ra: Space is the Place w/ Marshall Allen
Sun Ra was born Herman P. Blount on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, but this is something he categorically denied, even in his later years. To that end, on May 30th 1993…
Duke Ellington – Ellington at Newport 1956 (Complete)
There is one performance from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 that overshadows the rest, making the cream of the bop crop sound, literally, overblown. New England’s annual sit down affair has produced…
Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do
Mayer Hawthorne returns with his neo-Motown sound to tackle “that difficult second album”. iCrates takes a look at how he got on… Mayer Hawthorne’s first album A Strange Arrangement was just that; a…
