If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Millions of viewers have been charmed by Soul, the new animated film from Disney and Pixar, which is streaming exclusively on Disney+. The Jamie Foxx-starring film follows the …
Read More »Onyx Collective Turn Rodgers and Hart's 'Manhattan' Into a Jazz Age Dreamscape
New York City jazz outfit Onyx Collective have unveiled a starry-eyed take on the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart classic, “Manhattan,” which will appear on their tribute to the Rodgers and Hart/Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook, Manhattan Special, out Friday,April 24th, via TMWRK Records. A New York City anthem since it …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Brandon Seabrook Trio, 'Bovicidal'
One of the wilder musical episodes this writer has heard in 2018 gets going a little more than three minutes into “Bovicidal,” the opening track on a new album by guitarist Brandon Seabrook’s eponymous trio. As double-bassist Henry Fraser sets up a steady pulse, the leader solos over top, moving …
Read More »Hugh Masekela, South African Jazz Giant, Dead at 78
South African trumpeter and jazz musician Hugh Ramopolo Masekela, who had a Number One hit with his version of “Grazing In the Grass,” died Tuesday in Johannesburg after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 78. In a post on Twitter, the Masekela family wrote: “A loving father, brother, grandfather …
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