Happy Birthday Monty Alexander. ‘The Full Monty’
This day (June 6, 1944), in Kingston, Jamaica, is born Monty Alexander, a jazz pianist with a strong Caribbean influence.
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Omar Sosa, Brad Mehldau, Hank Jones, Monty Alexander, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Chick Corea, Randy Weston, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Earl Hines, George Shearing, Eubie Blake
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Duke Ellington, Charles Lloyd , Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Robert Glasper, McCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Ravi Coltrane, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk, The Bad Plus, Monty Alexander , Dave Holland, Fourplay, Herbie Hancock
This week In Jazz Legends 23/52
Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Monty Alexander, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Hilton Ruiz, Cyrus Chestnut, Berklee Sextet, Paquito D'Rivera, Hendrik Meurkens, Stanley Turrentine, Kamasi Washington, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy Quartet, Sun Ra Arkestra
Paul Weller has put a lot of acoustic guitars, strings and ballads in his mod music. ‘That’s all folk…music!’
Paul Weller's "True Meanings" is his fourteenth solo album featuring among other guests Martin Carthy, Danny Thompson, Noel Gallagher and Rod Argent of the Zombies and released on September 14, 2018 by Parlophone
>>> his voice smooth and low over acoustic guitars before giving way to pastoral strings on the instrumental break. >>>>>
> It’s a sign of his openness to new ideas, to outside influences, with Weller commenting in the press note: “that’s what it’s about really, I always want to see what people can add to my ideas.” >>>The Irish Times>>
> It is Weller’s singer-songwriter album, acoustic and reflective in tone, and carefully, delicately textured. >>>
Paul Weller - True Meanings
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Natalie Cole releases ‘Unforgettable… with Love,’ an album of standards performed by her father, Nat King Cole (1991)
Natalie Cole's 'Unforgettable… with Love' is an album featuring covers of standards performed by Natalie's father, Nat King Cole and released on June 11, 1991 by Elektra..
Happy Birthday Sly Dunbar. ‘Sly from the Dunbar Family’
This day (May 10, 1952), in Kingston, Jamaica, is born Lowell 'Sly' Fillmore Dunbar a.k.a Sly Dunbar, a drummer usually orking together with bassist Robbie Shakespeare.