Sound of the Sun On-Demand Spring 2025
Quincy Jones This season we celebrate Quincy Delight Jones Jr., musician, bandleader, composer and producer. There are many ways of achieving great success and wealth in music. Jones’ path to that pinnacle was as unique as it was unexpected and open-ended. Ultimately it made him the only musician in jazz history to achieve the status of an authentic… Read More »
Hip Urban Soul On-Demand Spring 2025
That Jazz On-Demand Spring 2025
Sun-Music Interview – Adrian Younge
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 Interview – Jazzmeia Horn
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 Interview – Nicholas Payton
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 »