Date: September 21, 2016
Venue: Piano’s (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
South African born singer-songwriter Jeri Silverman offered a set at NYC’s Pianos. I was mildly intrigued; frankly, there are a lot of singer-songwriters. To stand out in this, one must have something of artistic depth, or risk being lost in the crowd. With this in mind, I went to Pianos to hear what she had to offer.
Artist: Bitter’s Kiss
Title: My God
Label: self-produced
Genre: indie Pop
Release date: out
Bitter’s Kiss is the vehicle for singer/songwriter Chloe Baker to showcase her wide range of talents. The New Jersey teenager has garnered attention for her emotional delivery of poignant songs that deal with such complex subjects as love, religion, suicide and growing up in today’s world.
Chloe grew up in a home filled with music, with a home recording studio, a guitar collection, and a father who regularly played in bands. Chloe has been serious about writing music for the past couple of years, and has worked with her father to record and produce her music over the past several months.
Artist: Phil Gammage
Title: Used Man For Sale
Label: World Wide Vibe
Genre: Blues/Americana
Release date: October 4, 2016
New York blues/americana musician Phil Gammage returns with a new 10-song album Used Man for Sale featuring all original songs. In this collection, Phil explores blues, lounge, and countrypolitan, all to great success. The result is an album of unforgettable melodies and music.
Support “The Cornel West Concerto” recording featuring Arturo O’Farrill Arturo O’Farrill‘s The Cornel West Concerto is a tour-de-force musical and oratorical plea for justice, love, and respect… with text by Dr. Cornel West – based on questions proposed by W.E.B. Dubois at the turn of the 20th Century – questions as relevant today (if not more so) as they were then:
Photo by Photo by Kendall Reeves
Be a part of a very special celebration of the life and music of jazz composer, author, and educator David Baker. Claim your recording now or join at any other reward level and support the recording, production, and major national release of Basically Baker Volume 2: The Big Band Music of David Baker by the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra. Your contributions are tax deductible as funds will go to the Patois non-profit organization.
Upon release, 100% of all proceeds generated by sales of the recording will go directly to the David N. Baker Scholarship Fund.
