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Louis Cole: Quality Over Opinion
by Scott Lichtman
Louis Cole is a chameleonic genius--merging beats, samples and catchy tunes across styles ranging from metal-funk-fusion" to pastoral falsettos." His loose incorporation of jazz traits, including syncopation, funk keys and sophisticated horn arrangements, has yielded new validation with a Grammy 2024 Best Alternative Jazz Album nomination for Quality Over Opinion (originally released in 2022). Cole plays fluid keys, guitar, drums, sings and produces. There are twenty pieces on Quality Over Opinion. Practically every tune--the majority clock-in at under ...
read moreSize Matters: (Mostly New) Jazz for Big Bands and Orchestras, Part 4
by Ludovico Granvassu
In the early days of jazz, Orchestra" was used to identify bands larger than a septet. Nowadays, jazz orchestras and big bands are much larger than that, like those we feature in our final installment of our mini-series dedicated to (mostly new and upcoming) releases by big bands and orchestras which can be found at the intersection of beauty, fun and mischief. Happy listening and don't forget to check out the previous installments of this mini-series: Part 1, ...
read moreWho Is Louis Cole
by Leo Sidran
Multi instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, arranger, video maker, surrealist, funk monkey, producer and personality Louis Cole on where he came from, what he's doing now, and where he hopes to go. Along the way he touches on writing nostalgic music that feels almost like a memory of something that never happened," overcoming fear, being a better person, staying up late into the weird part of the night, insanity music," money, honesty, humor, the problem with 100bpm, YouTube Poop, the spirit of ...
read moreLouis Cole and Genevieve Artadi Release "Think Thoughts"
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Experimental-electronic-fusion-funk-popsters Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi continue their voyage with sophomore album Think Thoughts, anticipated to drop November 29th. Since their 2010 self-titled debut, Louis and Genevieve have gained unyielding momentum with notoriously cracked out radio pop covers and undoubtedly unique originals all played out on their YouTube channel, which has over 6,100 subscribers and about 629,000 upload views. Their YouTube cred also includes a collaboration with the beloved Pomplamoose as well as a front-page feature for their song Window ...
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