Sound of the Sun On-Demand Winter 2025
Chaka Khan Chaka Khan is this season’s SOS featured 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 »
Sun-Music Interview – Delfeayo Marsalis
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 »
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Sound of the Sun On-Demand Fall 2024
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 Interview – Stanley Clarke
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 »
Larry Tye’s The Jazz Men
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 »