Record Labels
AVAILABLE NOW: Physical – Ranky Tanky’s “Ranky Tanky” on Resilience Music Alliance
Ranky Tanky Breathes Life To the Gullah Culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry With A Range of Playful Game Songs to Heartbreaking Spirituals Set to a Unique Sea Islands Groove Eponymous Debut Release Available Digitally on October 20 with Physical Product Available on November 3 via Resilience Music Alliance From the South Carolina Lowcountry,…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Vincent Herring – “Hard Times” – Smoke Sessions Records
Saxophonist Vincent Herring Soothes Modern Day Turbulence on Hard Times – Available November 3 on Smoke Sessions Records There’s no avoiding the hard times. Every human being that’s walked this Earth has had his or her share of the blues, from the personal to the political, the local to the global. But with another ominous…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Dave Bennett – “Blood Moon” – Mack Avenue Records
A “blood moon” is a natural phenomenon that evokes a sense of foreboding yet captivating wonderment. However, the moon eventually returns to its natural state, shedding its reddish hues back to normalcy. Clarinetist Dave Bennett has not returned to normalcy and neither has his music. Blood Moon, Bennett’s sophomore release for Mack Avenue Records, is…
Read MoreVisionary Pianist & West Coast Get Down Founding Member CAMERON GRAVES Rounds Out a Year of Critical Praise for Debut Album “Planetary Prince”
Planetary Prince – Available On Digital Platforms & Physical Formats (LP & CD) via Mack Avenue Records Psychotropic Eight Song Release Captures Seismic Shift in Jazz Featuring Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Ryan Porter and Ronald Bruner Jr. “‘Planetary Prince’ picks up where Washington’s impactful album, ‘The Epic’ (featuring Graves) left off, blending jazz with…
Read MoreRanky Tanky – “Ranky Tanky” – Digital Release: October 20 – Physical Release: November 3 on Resilience Music Alliance
Ranky Tanky Breathes Life To the Gullah Culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry With A Range of Playful Game Songs to Heartbreaking Spirituals Set to a Unique Sea Islands Groove Eponymous Debut Release Available Digitally on October 20 wit Physical Product Available on November 3 via Resilience Music Alliance “Ranky Tanky, from Charleston, S.C., sings…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Rondi Charleston – “Resilience” – Digitally on Resilience Music Alliance
Rondi Charleston knows the power of a story well told and knows how to tell it like it is. This talent, which led her to winning both Emmy and Peabody Awards as a field producer for ABC’s Diane Sawyer, led also to her back to her innate passion and a third act: that of a…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Johnny O’Neal – “In The Moment” – Smoke Sessions Records
While every great jazz musician knows the value of spontaneity, few understand the true value of being in the moment quite like Johnny O’Neal. A rising star in the early 1980s, O’Neal left New York after a mugging in 1986. Performing and recording in Atlanta, St. Louis, Montreal and his native Detroit, he experienced another…
Read MoreVarious Artists – “Oscar, With Love” – Available November 17 on Mack Avenue Records
In 2015, a special 3-CD set, Oscar, With Love, was released to observe the 90th birthday of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson (1925-2007). To honor her late husband, Kelly Peterson assembled some of the most celebrated jazz artists in the world to perform and record on the luminary’s prized personal piano, then released the recordings…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Cécile McLorin Salvant – “Dreams and Daggers” – Mack Avenue Records
GRAMMY® Award-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant has had a remarkable rise to stardom in her professional career, and she’s taking another big leap forward with Dreams and Daggers, her third album for Mack Avenue Records, available September 29. “The songs on this album are of dreams and daggers. The daggers have been used at times…
Read MoreNew Music Label: Resilience Music Alliance Launches with Culturally Diverse, World-Class Recordings Celebrating the Power of the Human Spirit
Fall 2017 Release Schedule: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal and Paul Avgerinos Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome Released August 25, 2017 Rondi Charleston Resilience October 13, 2017 Ranky Tanky Ranky Tanky October 20, 2017 In times of social and cultural uncertainty, Resilience is key to societal harmony, advancement and survival. This innate quality…
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