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Album Review

Thundercat: It Is What It Is

Read "It Is What It Is" reviewed by John Bricker


If you're looking for some dreamy neo-soul and jazz fusion with a charming sense of humor, no one can satisfy you like Thundercat. Released on April 3, his fourth studio album, It Is What It Is, demonstrates his seemingly limitless confidence and charm as a singer, songwriter and bassist, delivering a solid crop of gorgeous and personal songs. After releasing two acclaimed solo albums and playing some incredible features for artists like Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino, Stephen ...

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Performance / Tour

UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests

UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina,  plus Flying Lotus and special guests

Source: Jessica Wolf

UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests LOS ANGELES—A host of jazz luminaries and some of modern music's most exciting artists gather on the Royce Hall stage Sunday, December 5 at 7 p.m. in honor of the legendary Alice Coltrane. Led by Kyp Malone, of TV on the Radio and Rain ...

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Interview

Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig

Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig

Source: Michael Ricci

With the genre perennially accused of atrophy, it's little surprise that precocious vocalist and “Jazz Times" darling Jose James has been hailed as a so-called “savior of jazz." But the hype surrounding the Minneapolis-bred and Brooklyn-based crooner is well deserved, with his smoky, golden-throated grooves among the most dynamic to emerge from the tradition in recent memory. Boasting the support of hugely influential British DJ Gilles Peterson, plus beats from Los Angeles producer wunderkind Flying Lotus, James' latest album, “Black ...

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Recording

Flying Lotus: New Album w/ Yorke, Badu and More

Flying Lotus: New Album w/ Yorke, Badu and More

Source: JamBase

FLYING LOTUS RETURNS WITH THE NEW ALBUM COSMOGRAMMA SET FOR RELEASE MAY 4, 2010 ON WARP RECORDS

Flying Lotus Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics. Now he returns with Cosmogramma on May 4.

On his new album an ...

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