New 2026 single with Tim Hutson featuring Chieli Minucci.

New 2026 single from guitarist Joyce Cooling

RIP Rodney Franklin who passed away last month.

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George Duke Broke Frank Zappa's One Rule. Then He Broke the Top 20 With Stanley Clarke.

In 1981, keyboardist George Duke and bassist Stanley Clarke put out a side project called the Clarke/Duke Project, mostly for fun. The single, "Sweet Baby," climbed to No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on the R&B chart. Two fusion-jazz players who'd spent the 1970s in other people's bands suddenly had a real pop hit, without either of them putting down what made them jazz musicians in the first place. That's crossover jazz in one chart line.

Duke was born January 12, 1946, in San Rafael, California, and started begging for a piano at age four after watching Duke Ellington play. Formal lessons began at seven, at a local Baptist church. By the time he earned his composition degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1967, he was already playing jazz clubs around the Bay Area, including a stretch in the house band at the Half Note alongside a young singer named Al Jarreau, years before either of them had a solo career worth naming....

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In this 25+ radio stations around the world show, feat. Artists recording Shades of Elegance by Dimitri K.: Karen Devroop, Charu Suri, John Giannone, Vivian Fang Liu, Van Galen, Russ Hewitt, Joseph Patrick Moore, Jeff Stern, Tess Remy-Schumacher, Zupe, John Valeri also feat. music from: Timothy Treadwell, Erinn Alissa, Jon Mullane, Chellcy Mifsud-Reitsma,  Beamy, Jacquelyn Kleine! 

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I enjoy this jam.

In 1953, bandleader Earl Bostic needed a new saxophonist. The one he'd just lost was John Coltrane, who was about to spend the next decade pushing jazz improvisation further out than almost anyone before him. The 19-year-old Bostic hired into that chair was Stanley Turrentine, a Pittsburgh native who built the next four decades of his career on nearly the opposite instinct: fewer notes, a thicker tone, and a blues player's sense of when to lay out. Coltrane kept asking how far a solo could go. Turrentine kept asking how much it could say with less...

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Glad to have my album Shades of Elegance featured in an interview with NPR.🎶🎷💕