Nat Adderley, Jr. has released his first solo project “Took So Long”. Sun-Music’s Tessil Collins got to talk to Nat about his dear friend Luther Vandross, his entry into music arrangement, the excitement of rocketing up the jazz music charts and more. As Luther Vandross’ long-time musical director, Nat’s compositions include “Stop to Love”, “Wait for Love”, “Make… Read More »
Sun-Music.net’s Tessil Collins had the distinct pleasure of having a wide-ranging conversation with muti-faceted artist, Ledisi. They talk about her new release, “For Dinah” and more. She is a free-spirit who seriously follows her muse. This attitude has shielded her throughout her career. Ledisi walks her walk and is very pleased to be where she is. Growing up,… Read More »
Sun-Music’s Tessil Collins caught up to multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer Adrian Younge. They talked about his “Something About April” dream tour. He broke down his companies – Art Don’t Sleep, Linear Labs & Jazz Is Dead – and discovering himself as an artist. Adrian Younge is a rare force in the music world, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and Emmy Award-winning… Read More »
Sun-Music’s Tessil Collins got to chat with the extraordinary vocalist Jazzmeia Horn about her tour, assembling her bands and reflects on the state of jazz scene performance, production and radio. As Grammy-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn looks out the window of her 11th-floor hotel room in Tokyo, she describes the surrounding skyscrapers, the yellow and pink clouds floating by… Read More »
Sun-Music’s Sheila Anderson caught up with multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger, essayist, and social activist Nicholas Payton to review his upcoming tour schedule, new band, new position at Berklee College and reflect a bit on music education. The New Orleans-born Payton has followed his calling since growing up under the tutelage of his parents — acclaimed bassist Walter… Read More »
Trombonist, composer and bandleader Delfeayo Marsalis speaks with Sun Music’s Sheila Anderson about his new CD, Crescent City Jewels, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, and the importance of New Orleans music. As an acclaimed trombonist, composer, and producer, Delfeayo Marsalis has also dedicated his prolific career to music theatre and education. Along with the Marsalis family of musicians including… Read More »
Sun Music’s Sheila Anderson talks with legendary bassist, Stanley Clarke, about his 3 year BroadStage residency, curating the Future of Sounds Jazz festival, his upcoming show in Portsmouth NH on 9/1 at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club and new box set, Last Train to Sanity. Long before he became a four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, performer, composer, conductor,… Read More »
How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by T. Brooks Shepard There is a plethora, a multiplicity, a panoply of routine “jazz” books available in the music publishing marketplace. They tell the same stories, repeat the same tired myths, sagas, jokes and anecdotes. They pretty much all say the same things-over and over. Not so… Read More »
