Kyle Shepherd -][- SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY !X – [Fineart Music, 2012] –

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Buddy Wells, Cape Town, Composer, Creative Artist, Fineart Music, Jonno Sweetman, Kyle Shepherd, Pianist, Poet, Shane Cooper, South African

You may or not be familiar with South African pianist/composer Kyle Shepherd, either way it goes his compositions, lyricism and style are definitely worth a close listen and consideration. –Rob Young | Urban Flux Media

Kyle Shepherd, South African History !X

Kyle Shepherd -][- SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY !X –Mp3– [Fineart Music, 2012] –

Kyle Shepherd, born in Cape Town, South Africa on 8 July 1987, is widely regarded as one of South Africa’s most influential and accomplished jazz pianists and composers. Shepherd has released three critically acclaimed Albums to date. His his first two Albums, ‘fineART’ [2009] and ‘A Portrait of Home’ [2010], earned him SAMA (South African Music Award) nominations; ‘fineART’ for ‘Best Traditional Jazz Album’ and ‘Best Newcomer’ [SAMA 2010] and ‘A Portrait of Home’ for ‘Best Traditional Jazz Album’ [SAMA 2011].

Mike Mahoney -][- WALLINGFORD – [Mike Mahoney, 2012] –

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Mike Mahoney, WALLINGFORD

Mike Mahoney -][- WALLINGFORD –Mp3– [Mike Mahoney, 2012] –

This first record of music collecting the spirit of friends and band mates into a single, cohesive and multilayered voice, guided by the stars of our own radiant milky way wilderness, includes Mark Allen on baritone and soprano saxophones and flute, Jon Rees on alto saxophone and flute, Dylan Babitch on piano and fender rhodes, Ian Brick on electric guitar, Jon Smith on electric bass, and Jason Fraticelli and Brian Howell on upright bass. i went to music school with most all of these guys, (except Jason, whom i met through mutual friends), where this group was conceived and went through various growths and forms performing around philadelphia. this music has been in the making for nearly 5 or 6 years now, and was recorded in january 2011 at morningstar studios.

(RIP) Gil Scott-Heron, Called Godfather of Rap, Dies at 62

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Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet, singer and author who rejected the title often given him as the “Godfather of Rap” because he said rap “is aimed at the kids,” has died in New York City. He was 62.

He had spent much of the last two decades battling drug addiction and in and out of prison before releasing an album last year, “I’m New Here,” that brought him something of a comeback.

Doris Nolan, a friend of Scott-Heron’s told The Associated Press, “We’re all sort of shattered.”

From his first album, “125th and Lenox,” released in 1970, Scott-Heron was a unique and powerful voice in American music.

At a time when popular music was moving away from the anthems of protest of the ’60s, Scott-Heron, with his hard-edged but somehow tender, aching voice, gave an unflinching yet poetic look at the realities of inner-city life at a time when the hopes of the civil rights movement were battered in the anger of riots and the ravages of spreading drug addiction. –By LAUREN VANCE and DEAN SCHABNER

:: SOURCE: ABC.com ::..