The keyboard, everything, came to me,” she said, “including knowing that I wanted ‘Fanga’ to go with that.” It was the moment of inspiration for the title song of “Soaring High,” Kuumba’s live concert ...
Today, the Spotlight shines On trumpet virtuoso and international superstar Ibrahim Maalouf. Ibrahim is exactly the type of artist we love hosting on the podcast--sensitive, open and unwilling to be ...
On Sunday, you get to choose between Irish music and dance in Skokie or real-deal blues in a dive bar in Rogers Park. On Tuesday, choose between our local guitar ace Donovan Mixon or South African ...
When he was 12, Jones began playing trumpet at Bremerton’s Coontz Junior ... becoming the first African American vice president at Mercury Records in 1964, composing film scores for dozens ...
He’d gotten his start as a jazz musician playing trumpet in Lionel Hampton’s band when he was still a teenager. Dinah Washington had given him his big break as a record producer. He’d ...