Grammy Award-winning musician Esperanza Spalding will release her new LP Radio Music Society, a companion piece to her brilliant 2010 album Chamber Music Society, on March 20. Guest appearances on the album include rapper Q-Tip and soul songbirds Algebra Blessett and Lalah Hathaway, among others.
The collection will also accompanied by a separate deluxe DVD that contains 12 conceptual music videos on which Spalding expresses her inspiration for the album and tells the story behind each track.
The 27-year-old artist will embark on a North American tour in April in support of the project. Click HERE for tour dates.
Source: thejazzline.com
Rise In Peace, Cesaria Evora.
Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African island’s music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70.
Source: thesmithian
Girl, You Know It’s True …
On this day in history, Milli Vanilli won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1989. They later admitted they were not the vocalists on their album, inciting media backlash.
Source: rightnowradio
![Steve Stoute Airs Out the Grammys For Eminem, Kanye, Bieber Snubs
“The feedback I’m hearing — artists are saying I’m not coming next year,” Steve Stoute told The New York Observer. “Why would I show up on TV to be the star of my own demise? Many, many artists are very upset. Everybody knows the artists that I’ve worked with. [Jay-Z] wasn’t there because he’s just sick of it. They showed his picture [during the broadcast], and it’s from Reasonable Doubt. They don’t even have a picture more recent out of the last 15 years.”
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Steve Stoute Airs Out the Grammys For Eminem, Kanye, Bieber Snubs
“The feedback I’m hearing — artists are saying I’m not coming next year,” Steve Stoute told The New York Observer. “Why would I show up on TV to be the star of my own demise? Many, many artists are very upset. Everybody knows the artists that I’ve worked with. [Jay-Z] wasn’t there because he’s just sick of it. They showed his picture [during the broadcast], and it’s from Reasonable Doubt. They don’t even have a picture more recent out of the last 15 years.”
Read more, HERE
Source: translationllc.com
![[Attention: the Recording Academy, Grammy voters, Bieber bigots/dickheads and hipster music critics]
From samuelfromtheshire:
Just because you started listening to someone this year doesn’t mean they’re a new artist.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgoc8hC24j1qayumio1_500.jpg)
[Attention: the Recording Academy, Grammy voters, Bieber bigots/dickheads and hipster music critics]
From samuelfromtheshire:
Just because you started listening to someone this year doesn’t mean they’re a new artist.
Source: samuelfromtheshire
Bruno Mars won one trophy at the Grammy Awards but it wasn’t televised.
Oh, and he loves Snooki from the Jersey Shore. Awww….
Source: randomnessasusual
I hope people realize that there are a lot of things happening in the jazz world that they may not know about — and that I’m one of them
Spalding was the first jazz artist nominated for best new artist in 35 years. But she is not exactly a newcomer, having released her breakthrough album in 2008.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
#MagazineMonday
Fight the Power!
From tumblinerb:
Flavor Flav & Slick Rick boycotting the Grammys, 1991. To this day neither Ricky D nor Public Enemy have ever won a Grammy.
#GrammyWeekend
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Closer to Her Dreams
(l. to r.) Kerry “Krucial Keys” Brothers and (my future baby mama) Goapele
#GrammyWeekend
Source: hiphopwired.com
Prince Honors Striesand With MusicCares Award; Donates $1.5M To Harlem Children’s Zone, ABT and UDA
Source: drfunkenberry.com
