June Rochelle is a humanitarin,songstress, professional songwriter, television show producer, director, media content editor, graphic artist, animator and overall making this world a better place. On her soulful and sexy new single, June Rochelle offers an empowering message for those who think perhaps that hope has abandoned them for good -- a compelling R&B, urban and jazz styled reminder that while it may hide as we experience life’s darker moments. The power of “Love Is Here To Stay” and the resulting collaboration between June and Michael Houston is all the more incredible considering that they have only been working together since they reconnected last November. The two have a music chemistry that is undeniable and the lyrics and the music to “Love is Here to Stay” is masterfully written, produced and arranged by Rochelle and Houston. He also added his stellar, jazzy piano work to complement the emotion of her vocals. Tony Cummings of the UK’s Cross Rhythm Magazine called her “one of the classiest new soul divas to emerge in recent times,.” and Clarence Waldron, former Senior Editor of JET Magazine wrote during her inspirational music days, “June Rochelle is helping make gospel music last.”
Electric organist Rory More is still the one-stop shop for melody-intense grooves, dusty oscillations and liltingly hip lounge pop vocal excursions. It began with the über organtastic loungsters Les Hommes - the retro moderne jazz exotica trio who swung their way around much of Europe in the early 2000s. Still ensconced within a uniquely niched jazz pop panoramica, and after a decade of solidly collectible 12s and 45s, Rory More's curiously seductive and unapologetically magical mondo moods have maintained his profile at medium-cool status. Rory More's new long player Looking for Lazlo is a concept album of sorts with motifs recurring and ebbing, plundering a lush dynamic array of tonalities and mood vibrations, taking the electric organist out from behind his console to incorporate sweeping soulful strings, rare electronica, orchestral tempos, the pop-noir tones of Gemma Ray and the arcadian lyricism of Brit folk discovery Anna Sheard. From the soaring swing of the Main Title, the harmony-laden lament of Lost To The Blue, the other-worldly exotica of Misty Atoll to the out-there harp of Free At Last... Lazlo, whoever he thinks himself to be, is fearlessly adrift amongst it all. Available as limited edition vinyl and download.
RUDY ROYSTON - 303
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first album as a leader from drummer Rudy Royston – a player we've enjoyed for
years in the company of others, and one who emerges here with a really fresh
voice of his own! Rudy's drums are bold, but also have this way of opening up
and allowing magical interplay between all the other members of the group – a
warm combo that features Jon Irabagon on saxes, Nadja Noordhuis on trumpet, Nir
Felder on guitar, Sam Harris on piano, and either Mimi Jones or Yasushi
Nakamura on bass. The guitar and piano combo is wonderful – ringing with these
compelling chromes, especially on the tracks that feature Jones' wonderfully
soulful work on bass. Most tracks are originals by Rudy – furthering the
personal voice of the record – and titles include "Mimi Sunrise",
"Play On Words", "Miles To Go", "Gangs Of New
York", "High & Dry", and "Bownze". ~ Dusty Groove
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