And make it hot!
30th April is International Jazz Day
It is said that more than a musical genre, jazz is a witness and a protagonist of modern history. International Jazz Day is chaired and led by Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, and legendary jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, who serves as a UNESCO Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
Diggin' Crates
It's International Record Store Day, and I should be hangin' in my favorite store, digging in vinyl crates. But... Our new media manager and video person - we call him Evil Eye - is bugging me about finding old pictures, press material and other crap from the old days. So instead of working on that horn arrangement I dreamed about, I'm digging in the dusty crates from the last century. Hoping this all will make you peeps happy...
Lati tweaking samples on the S-1000 at Arthur Baker's Shakedown Studios in New Jersey, 1993.
BFE Goes Social
Brooklyn Funk Essentials are adding more Social Media, such as Google+, Tumblr, Flickr and Twitter to their already existing Facebook and MySpace accounts, as their forums of choice when communicating with fans. Also our new website will function as a central hub for all BFE content.
Stay tuned.
Photographs by Richard Ahlstrom ©