Documentary Young James Brown The Tony Wilson Story
BILOXI, Miss. - Oct. 16, 2016 - PRLog -- Entertainment Mogul, Leesa Robinson, Owner of Leesa Robinson Entertainment Group announced today that Leesa Robinson Productions will film a documentary film...
View ArticleSax great Maceo Parker blowing into town for Belly Up gig
Sax great Maceo Parker developed his reputation for blowing the roofs off of joints, musically speaking, during his storied tenure with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic. As a solo artist, he...
View ArticleThis Day in Music History: Pink Floyd scores their first #1 album,...
1963 - On the first day of their first foreign tour, The Beatles spend the day in Stockholm, Sweden. They record a performance for a radio program called "The Beatles popgrupp fran Liverpool pa besok i...
View ArticleParker, Jones Family Singers visit Mondavi
It's widely acknowledged that American rock and roll grew from a seedbed of traditional gospel music. Friday's Mondavi Center audience will hear soulful music by saxophonist Maceo Parker - a soul and...
View ArticleMovie review: 'Miss Sharon Jones!' hits powerful notes
The timing of Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple getting the call to discuss her interest in making a movie about singer Sharon Jones came at an odd time. The singer, often called the female James...
View ArticleArchie Bell On "Tighten Up": "I Hear It In My Sleep!"
On a recent sunny afternoon in Houston, I sat down with septuagenarian soul legend Archie Bell to discuss - among other things - his popular, perhaps improbable, smash hit from 1968: "Tighten Up," by...
View ArticleTube Fabrication Industries Upgrades Their Capabilities
Present at the announcement of the equipment sale : Tom Worley, saws and end machining sales for BLM Group; James Brown, a sales executive for Tube Fabrication Industries; Julie Ellis, the president of...
View ArticleAG not compelled to answer -
Attorney General Alan Wilson will not be required to answer questions about what has happened under his watch with the estate and education charity of entertainment legend James Brown. In an order...
View ArticleThis Day in Music History: Bruce Springsteen gets his first #1 album, ...
Within a few years, it starts focusing on billboards for entertainment shows and drops "Advertising" from its name, and by the 1930s, it is covering radio and sales of a new medium: jukebox records....
View ArticleRoxy Roca @Barrelhouse South
Bring in the Thursday funk with Roxy Roca. With 600 shows under their belt and three released albums, the Austin, Texas-based band hearkens the greats like James Brown, Chubby Checker, Little Richard,...
View ArticleMaceo Parker Brings Legendary Funk to Campbell Hall
The dim room stirred in anticipation as nearly every seat was filled with eager bodies. The stage was brightly lit in hues of blues, red and violet.
View ArticleDave Matthews Band Releases 2002 MSG Show With James Brown As 'Live Trax 40'
One of the most memorable collaborations to take place at a Dave Matthews Band concert took place on December 21, 2002 in New York City at Madison Square Garden when the group was joined by James Brown...
View ArticleIrving Berlin touches the American soul in Rep's spectacular "I Love a Piano"
There was no James Brown nor Sam Cooke nor Lou Rawls nor Sam and Dave, but the musical that hit the Stackner Cabaret Sunday night is the greatest tribute to soul music you may ever see on a Milwaukee...
View ArticleTopeka Police Chief Brown resigns to take position with Kansas National Guard
Pictured is Topeka Police Chief James Brown. Brown, Topeka's police chief since October 2014, announced Monday he was resigning to take a fulltime position with the Kansas Adjutant General's Office.
View ArticleUK's Uncle Frank Debuts New Single 'Fountains'
Following the release of 2015's 'MAXIMUM RESPECT', Uncle Frank- the funky, technicolored, UK group invoking the spirit of Barry White, James Brown, Hall and Oates, Nile Rodgers and more are back!...
View Article7 Strangest Places in DFW
At one time, Longhorn Ballroom hosted some of the best and biggest acts to ever come through Dallas: Sex Pistols, Merle Haggard, Patti Smith, James Brown and Otis Redding. We have yet to coin a...
View ArticleCharles "Wigg" Walker continues to build on his long and winding career
KEEP COMING BACK: After years playing with big R&B orchestras, including his own Nashville-based group, The Dynamites, Charles "Wigg" Walker has begun performing with a smaller, more intimate...
View ArticleJazz Fusion Orchestra Bandzilla to Release New Album Bandzilla Rises
What happens when a group of top studio musicians get together in their free time? A unique mixture of sophisticated composition, passionate improvisation, scathing social commentary and biting humor,...
View ArticleCity DJ makes comeback after 20-year gap
Jerry 'Red Dred' Crawford, from Wapping Road, is about to return to a city centre club after a 20-year gap to entertain Friday and Saturday night crowds with tunes from the present day to James Brown,...
View ArticleJames Brown lives again in NJPAC tribute
James Brown lives again in NJPAC tribute They lined up around the block to see James Brown live at the Apollo. Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2fuqcSJ And they may line...
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