Studies completed and back in Lesotho, Morojele founded the small Afro-jazz group Black Market and later the trio Afro-Blue. He worked intermittently with other Basotho music groups including ...

By Hank Shteamer Al Foster, a drummer who worked with some of the most illustrious names in jazz across a career ... “I didn’t know you could make music on the drums, so after that, when ...

They were figuring out how Akipa, who doesn’t read music, could be cued for a new section. Emmanuel Black Bear — the keeper of the drum ... “We don’t go by sheet music.” ...

Larry Blumenfeld, a culture reporter and music critic ... is that jazz bands and orchestras tend to function very differently onstage. “I can signal a beat and the jazz drums come in and hit ...

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis once said that the sheet music is just a starting point ... as well as any other band marching to the beat of its own drum.

Hay was fiddling with the drum machine and keyboard ... licensing of indie artists’ music. The distributors were flagging Smith and Hay’s music, from Jazz and from other projects, for ...

It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

The Sony ULT Field 3 is a surprising new entry that offers bass-boosted sound. While it can stand tall against the elements ...

Most of the key narrative drivers are buried in liner notes on the lyric sheet but aren't represented anywhere in the music ... piano and the slow beat of a kick drum. Yet they all manage to ...

This article refers to artists that the Brighton & Hove News & Sussex News team covered only on Saturday 17th May. There was ...

Pop music has ... You can’t beat this song on the 4th of July. Faith Hill celebrates America with this passionate tribute that namechecks Motown, Texas skies, and New Orleans drums.

The best Rolling Stones 80s songs found the group utilizing a host of different music genres ... Stones’ studio albums to contain a lyric sheet in the US. The Emotional Rescue album features ...