Gracie Terzian is blessed with an angelic voice and fittingly so accompanies her singing with the plucking of a harp, more specifically, a harp ukulele (say what?). Her latest project, the Christmas EP Bells & White Branches, is simply stunning from start to finish, melding jazz and folk with hints of medieval minstrel music. The EP revisits six timeless Christmas favorites, … [Read more...]
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Watch the Video for ChimyTina’s Cover of Wham!’s “Last Christmas”
ChimyTina, the duo of vocalist Martina DaSilva, leader of the jazz vocal harmony group The Ladybugs, and bassist Dan “Chimy” Chmielinski (Wynton Marsalis, Marc Cary, Brad Mehldau, and Joey Alexander) began collaborating in 2014 for what has now become a semi-regular video series featuring bass-vocal renditions of classic standards such as “The Best Things In Life Are Free”, … [Read more...]
Nextbop Radio Hour (Ep. 4 | Christmas Edition)
We’re back on this very special Christmas day inaugurating the brand new mic Santa got us. Hope you enjoy this week’s edition of the Nextbop Radio Hour featuring Christmas favorites by Gregory Porter, Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant, Diana Krall & the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Willie Nelson & Norah Jones, Jimmy Fallon, … [Read more...]
Geri Allen On Her First Christmas Album and Embracing It All
Geri Allen is, with all certainty, the renaissance woman of Modern Jazz. Musician (and more pointedly, instrumentalist), scholar, professor, mother, African American, and female, Allen has deepened the complexities (and possibilities) of what it means to be a jazz musician. It is likely for this reason that she has been recognized in ways not characteristic of typical jazz … [Read more...]
Stream Vocalist Demi Grace’s ‘Demi Xmas’ EP (Premiere)
Demi Grace, née Grace Abidemi Ayorinde to Nigerian parents, is a singer, model, and music producer with grand aspirations. From her humble beginnings in her father’s church choir and her high school's music program, Grace went on to earn a Bachelor's degree in Business Management, to become the first model with dreadlocks in a major international hair ad campaign, and to … [Read more...]