MILES SMILES! DON CHEADLE MOVING FORWARD WITH MOVIE IN 2014


“Jazz Rap”  with the Impresario Al Carter-Bey, the Impressario – the musical host with 30+ years of jazz radio experience, a musical library of 30,000 recordings; keeping the musical history of jazz alive. Jazz, America’s only original art form, as the American classical art form within the idiom of jazz.  Join the impresario  Al Carter-Bey, along…

COMING JUNE 21 2014 CELEBRATING BLACK MUSIC LEGACY


RJC Mediatainment & Hipster Sanctuary.Com Celebrating Black Music Month Presents A Love Supreme 50th Anniversary:The Spirit of John Coltrane’s Legacy an Evening of Living Art – live Jazz – Performance Poetry Guest Artist Exhibit on Display  Hosted by R.J.  Carmack The Performers Corner  214 Hardy St. Inglewood, CA. JUNE 21  2014  ONE NIGHT ONLY –…

The Jazz Spotlight With Harvey McKnight


Join Harvey McKnight -the Jazz Warrior  each and every Sunday  11:AM to 3:PM EST.   WGVU 88.5 and 93.5 streaming Online at http://www.wgvu.org      WGVU FM 301 W.Fulton   Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504 Jazz has been called America’s classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the…

JAZZ JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION’S SPECIAL APRIL


ABOUT JAZZ APRIL 2014 | ABOUT JJA The Jazz Journalists Association‘sJazzApril campaign supports both Jazz Appreciation Month and International Jazz Day (April 30) We use JazzApril to refer to both and to stress that all of “April is Jazz Month.   http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=70 On this site, you’ll find ways that YOU, whoever you are, can participate. ‎

Revolutionary Poet Laureate Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka Dies at 79


Imamu Amiri Baraka His death at Beth Israel Medical Center,Thursday, January 9 was confirmed by his son Ras Baraka, a member of the Newark Municipal Council. He did not specify a cause, but said that Mr. Baraka had been hospitalized since Dec. 21. Mr. Baraka was famous as one of the major forces in the…

TIME TRAVELING DIZZY (REECE) ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY


Happy Birthday, Dizzy Reece …Just revisiting a great Unsung trumpeter; You want a passionate  player  to interpret your favorite standards or just conjure up the tenacity of those fiery jam sessions of the  40s, Check Dizzy Reece! After spending the 1950s playing in Paris, Jamaican bebop trumpeter Dizzy Reece landed in New York City in 1960. He has…

New Year’s Eve Gig: Raw Sugar Quintet with Dale Fielder


Posted by Robert J. Carmack   Happy New Year 2014!!!  Veteran jazz  saxophonist  Dale Fielder, shown on stage with “Doc,” Trumpeter Dr. Richard Allen Williams. Featuring  RAW SUGAR QUINTET for a private New Year’s Eve gig at the Double Tree-Hilton Hotel in Culver City,California. Bassist, Jeff Littleton with Giovanni D. Nickens on drums. Rounding  out the quintet , though…