There's a fullness in ten years. A lot of work, if rather relentlessly done, can really make a discernible impact. Ten years ago, folks were making all the talk as rather cyclically that jazz was dead. It was such an exhausting conversation. Folks were around making this music, obviously. It couldn't be that dead. The problem was in the awareness and the tweaking of the … [Read more...]
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence – ‘Work Songs’
Most modern producers/songwriters seek to highlight the triumphs of American culture; Jaimeo Brown Transcendence's Work Songs invokes the way music was influenced under the most dire of circumstances. The follow up to the 2013's Transcendence debut, drummer Jaimeo Brown and guitarist Chris Sholar weave jazz and hip-hop so tightly the boundary between the two might as well not … [Read more...]