Chaka Khan Chaka Khan is this season’s SOS feature artist. She is the latest woman to be inducted into the coveted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023. Chaka is a global music star that has served as an inspiration for generations of singers, songwriters, recording artists, storytellers, and musicians. Aside from being a singer, she… 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 »
Listen to Hip Urban Soul On-Demand, the fresh Soul R&B tunes from emerging artists now in rotation on Sun Music Live. Get the tracks you love on Apple Music from “Buy What You Hear”. Hip Urban Soul “Buy What You Hear”
Tune in to That Jazz On-Demand to hear the fresh jazz tunes by musicians recently added to the Sun Music Live playlist. Purchase the tracks you enjoy via “Buy What You Hear” from Apple Music. That Jazz “Buy What You Hear”
Stevie Wonder The incomparable Stevie Wonder is our SOS Fall On-Demand featured artist. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 100 million records worldwide. Wonder’s single “Fingertips” was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, at the age of 13, making Stevie the youngest solo artist… 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 »
Sun Music’s Sheila Anderson talks to composer, band leader, and trumpeter extraordinaire Etienne Charles about his new CD showcasing his new Big Band. Trinidad born Etienne Charles is a performer, composer and storyteller, who is continuously searching for untold stories and sounds with which to tell them. His lush trumpet sound, varied compositional textures and pulsating percussive grooves… Read More »
