Happy Father's Day from Grupo Ciruela!

Celebrating father's day with Grupo Ciruela's 2016 performance of their Mexican heavy rock classic "Padre" 

Remembering Augustus Pablo on his birthday

Raising a glass to Augustus Pablo on his birthday with a performance of "Java" along with a few stellar recordings. 

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Field Frequency salutes Augustus Pablo on Real Roots Radio – listen here.

Cassandra Wilson celebrates 30 years of New Moon Daughter @ Koerner Hall, Wednesday

Cassandra Wilson reprises the music of her acclaimed 1995 album New Moon Daughter with the musicians who cut it. 

 

Toronto Jazz Festival presents Cassandra Wilson

at Koerner Hall (273 Bloor St. West) 

Wednesday, June 24

Tickets: Starting at $95 available here. 

The Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi makes her Koerner Hall debut with an all-star band from her critically-lauded New Moon Daughter (Blue Note) album from 1995 including Sisters Euclid guitarist Kevin Breit, bassist Lonnie Plaxico. guitarist Brandon Ross and percussionist Jeffrey Haynes in addition to Swiss-born, NYC-based harmonica ace Grégoire Maret (who has worked with Herbie Hancock, Sting, Pat Metheney).      

Critic Gary Giddins described Wilson as “a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field” by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. Her honours include two Grammy Awards, the Django d'Or Award, the Edison Award, and a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Ms. Wilson also performed in one of the leading roles for Wynton Marsalis’s Blood on the Fields, the first jazz album to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In 2022, she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship and was named an NEA Jazz Master alongside Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison.      

Wilson’s tour celebrates the 30th anniversary of her release New Moon Daughter, which artfully blended jazz and Americana, and catapulted her to a new echelon of fame in the jazz world – hitting #1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and earning her a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Her Koerner Hall performance features four of the musicians who joined Wilson for the New Moon Daughter recording. 

Watch a few of Cassandra Wilson's performances below. 

Remembering guitar great LeRoy Crume on his birthday

Soul Stirrers guitarist LeRoy Crume cut "Funky Walk" with brother Dillard after numerous records as the Crume Brothers.

Fabienne Delsol shares trippy new video for "She Is Gone"

"She Is Gone" is taken from Fabienne Delsol's fifth album "Indigo Red" out July 10th via Damaged Goods!

Happy Birthday Ernest Ranglin!

Celebrating the 94th birthday of Jamaican music legend Ernest Ranglin with some footage with Monty Alexander some rare tracks.

It's Juneteenth – Happy Freedom Day!

Juneteenth celebration at Eastwoods Park in Austin, Texas. Photo by Grace Murray Stephenson on June 19, 1900.