-Kevin Walker and the Jazz Chronicles -Craig Alston and the Syndicate -Marc Evans -Saffhi -Mosno -Aquil Mizan and Thelonious Coltrane -E-The Poet Emecee -Komplex -Substantial -The Love Peace Project -t3n -Drifish -Brownfish -Janice B -Austin Ellis -Axiom -Joe Keyes and the Late Bloomers -CTW -Ama Chandra and Sunday Moon -2nd8nature
I have had the fortunate pleasure of meeting and conversing with alot of young brothas in the jazz world. Many college graduates who have overcome the impossible of odds of not becoming statistics in the Amerikkkan genocide. Brothas who have been racially profiled like common thugs and have shed tears over fallen comrades in the […]
I may never give you the note in your head But I can be the inspiration f0r your song I can be the melody in your heart and the harmony in your soul…..
Broken promises had deeply lacerated my heart, leaving a gaping wound of betrayal and rejection. I stumbled in darkness, crying out to the Creator to free me from this fallen world and let death be the remedy for my pain. The Lord refused to answer my cry, reminding me the bitter cup of […]
May 9, 2011 12:15 pm I completed my first year of conservatory training with only finals and a jury left to go. Background (skip this part if you don’t like grimey melodrama) In August of 99 as a newlywed student at The University of Virginia, I pawned my trumpet at the insistence of my […]
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” ~ Kofi Annan In the global economy, information is the most valuable commodity. Or as it is written thousands of years ago “My people perish for a lack of knowledge” Hosea 4:6. Information is key to changing […]