Tag: Neosoul
Elfen’s NEOSOUL NEW ALBUM TUESDAY SOIA MOOD SWINGS
ATTENTION TO ALL MY NEWBIE NEOSOUL HEADS!!! LISTEN UP You got to ad Soia 2013 album Mood Swings to your Neosoul collection.
What’s old to you may be new to me. What’s new to you may be old to me. I’ll just let her Neosoul music sing for itself! See you next week!! Give Soia album a listen on Bandcamp or iTunes
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Elfen’s NEW MUSIC NEOSOUL HIP HOP TUESDAY July 31st 2018 Stimulator Jones
Each week I think I’m going to feature one artist then I end up featuring another artist. Well this week is that week. I bring you Stimultor Jones. The Album Exotic Words and Masterful Treasures. Stimulators album has that 1980s early 1990s Newjack swing feel to it. This is the kinda album where us ol skool R&B hip hops heads would pull out our record player and put this record on and TURN IT UP!!
Follow Stimulator Jones on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram You can also find Stimulator Jones latest single on Bandcamp
Upcoming Concert Dates:
Oct 07: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Stimulator Jones, Prophet, San Francisco
Oct 09: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Stimulator Jones, Prophet, Salt Lake City
Oct 10: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, Denver
Oct 12: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Stimulator Jones, Prophet, Minneapolis
Oct 13: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Stimulator Jones, Prophet, Chicago
Oct 14: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, Toronto
Oct 16: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, Montreal
Oct 17: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, Burlington
Oct 19: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, New York
Oct 20: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Prophet, Stimulator Jones, Philadelphia
Elfen’s Neosoul New Music Tuesday The Internet
Now I’ve been lovin’ this Neosoul band for sometime now!! The lead singer Syd can sang. Her vocals are so unique. SIGH if only mainstream radio would play Neosoul. I bring you The Internet and their latest album Hive Mind. My favorite from the album is called come over. The lyrics and the music video is so relatable for anyone you can’t tell if this song is for a heterosexual couple or a lesbian couple a gay couple or whatever couple. I JUST LOVE THIS SONG for this purpose . In fact all their albums are for ANYONE in love or wanting to be loved. See you next week ya’ll
Elfen’s EXTRA EXTRA DOPE OL’ Skool Hip Hop artist Slick Rick
I saw that slick rick was trending on Apple Music. Slick Rick gives you his rhyming style like a nursery rhyme. LOVE HIS 16 BARS!! There’s a message in this music video called Behind bars.
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday NxWorries Oh Lawd
OMG Ya’ll I did it again. This weeks what’s old to you is new to me. What’s new old to you. Is new to me. Is the most sexiest album I stumbled upon. I was on YouTube and I saw this DOPE cartoon drawn thumbnail. And clicked so fast my ears was ringing. I fell in love with the duo NxWorries album Oh, Lawd. EVERY TRACK is dope af! My favorite Track is Lyk Dis
Elfen’s R&B TBT Music Video of the week George Benson Give Me The Night musical performance Music Video
George Benson at work Give Me The Night
Elfen’s TBT R&B 1980 George Benson give me the night
I remember this album playing on my mama’s record player. I loved the song blasting Give Me The Night. Years later I discovered she owned almost all his albums. As an 80sblackgirl my home was filled with music all day everyday. George Benson is one of the best Jazz musicians of the 20th century. Mainstream Radio needs give the POWER BACK to Radio Personality AKA Disc Jocky AKA DJ. Because of the DJ George Benson was heard and recognized world wide. If the Gorillaz choose to have George Benson on their new album. Then you know you are collaborating with greatness.
See you next Throwback Thursday! Next week I got some D Train….
Bio
Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of seven, he first played the ukulele in a corner drug store, for which he was paid a few dollars. At the age of eight, he played guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights, but the police soon closed the club down. At the age of 9, he started to record. Out of the four sides he cut, two were released: “She Makes Me Mad” backed with “It Should Have Been Me”, with RCA-Victor in New York; although one source indicates this record was released under the name “Little Georgie”,while the 45rpm label is printed with the name George Benson.The single was produced by Leroy Kirkland for RCA’s rhythm and blues label, Groove Records.As he has stated in an interview, Benson’s introduction to showbusiness had an effect on his schooling. When this was discovered (tied with the failure of his single) his guitar was impounded. Luckily, after he spent time in a juvenile detention centre his stepfather made him a new guitar.*
Benson attended and graduated from Schenley High School.[8][9] As a youth he learned how to play straight-ahead instrumental jazz during a relationship performing for several years with organist Jack McDuff. One of his many early guitar heroes was country-jazz guitarist Hank Garland.
At the age of 21, he recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, featuring McDuff. Benson’s next recording was It’s Uptown with the George Benson Quartet, including Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone saxophone. Benson followed it up with The George Benson Cookbook, also with Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber on baritone and drummer Marion Booker.Miles Davis employed Benson in the mid-1960s, featuring his guitar on “Paraphernalia” on his 1968 Columbia release, Miles in the Sky before going to Verve Records.
Benson then signed with Creed Taylor’s jazz label CTI Records, where he recorded several albums, with jazz heavyweights guesting, to some success, mainly in the jazz field. His 1974 release, Bad Benson, climbed to the top spot in the Billboard jazz chart, while the follow-ups, Good King Bad (#51 Pop album) and Benson and Farrell (with Joe Farrell), both reached the jazz top-three sellers. Benson also did a version of The Beatles’s 1969 album Abbey Road called The Other Side of Abbey Road, also released in 1969, and a version of “White Rabbit”, originally written and recorded by San Francisco rock group Great Society, and made famous by Jefferson Airplane. Benson played on numerous sessions for other CTI artists during this time, including Freddie Hubbard and Stanley Turrentine, notably on the latter’s acclaimed album Sugar.
1970s and 1980s
By the mid-to-late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, a whole new audience began to discover Benson. With the 1976 release Breezin’, Benson sang a lead vocal on the track “This Masquerade” (notable also for the lush, romantic piano intro and solo by Jorge Dalto), which became a huge pop hit and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. (He had sung vocals infrequently on albums earlier in his career, notably his rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” on the Other Side of Abbey Road album.) The rest of the album is instrumental, including his rendition of the 1975 Jose Feliciano composition “Affirmation”.
In 1976, Benson toured with soul singer Minnie Riperton, who had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer earlier that year and, in addition, appeared as a guitarist and backup vocalist on Stevie Wonder’s song “Another Star” from Wonder’s album Songs in the Key of Life.
During the same year, 1976, the top selling album ‘Breezin’ was released on the Warner Brothers label featuring the Bobby Womack penned title track and the Leon Russell penned This Masquerade which is now a jazz standard. Both tracks won Grammy awards that year and the LP put Benson into the musical limelight both in the USA and in Europe. Ironically, Benson had been discouraged up until this time, from using his singing skills, mainly as the company decision makers felt he wasn’t competent enough vocally, and he should stick to playing the guitar. It was here that he clearly proved them wrong.
He also recorded the original version of “The Greatest Love of All” for the 1977 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest, which was later covered by Whitney Houston as “Greatest Love of All”.[12] During this time Benson recorded with the German conductor Claus Ogerman. The live take of “On Broadway”, recorded a few months later from the 1978 release Weekend in L.A., also won a Grammy. He has worked with Freddie Hubbard on a number of his albums throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Qwest record label (a subsidiary of Warner Bros., run by Quincy Jones) released Benson’s breakthrough pop album Give Me The Night, produced by Jones. Benson made it into the pop and R&B top ten with the song “Give Me the Night” (written by former Heatwave keyboardist Rod Temperton). He had many hit singles such as “Love All the Hurt Away”, “Turn Your Love Around”, “Inside Love”, “Lady Love Me”, “20/20”, “Shiver”, “Kisses in the Moonlight”. More importantly, Quincy Jones encouraged Benson to search his roots for further vocal inspiration, and he rediscovered his love for Nat Cole, Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway in the process, influencing a string of further vocal albums into the 1990s. Despite returning to his jazz and guitar playing most recently, this theme was reflected again much later in Benson’s 2000 release Absolute Benson, featuring a cover of one of Hathaway’s most notable songs, “The Ghetto”. Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums.
Elfen’s Neosoul Music Video pick of the week Xiomara You don’t know jack
After watching this video go give a listen to Xiomara’s 2016 album Seven Nineteen on Apple iTunes, Bandcamp or Spotify!
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Album of the week Xiomara Seven Nineteen
This weeks New Music Tuesday is a little different. I’m calling it what’s old to you is new to me. And what’s new to me is old to you. I can’t help being attracted to the unusual and the unique. I don’t like to be stuck in a box. Especially when it comes to music. So a few years ago. When I saw this album cover. I just had to click and give a listen. I love this album and her music. Her name is Xiomara. The album seven nineteen. And my favorite song is Mic Check. There’s nothing more I need to write. Ya’ll just give her a listen. See you next Tuesday for another new album!