An actress, attorney and vocal powerhouse, Yolanda Rabun is a triple threat who succeeds mightily in whatever she sets her mind to. After building an enviable professional resume thanks to working with the likes of Jennifer Holiday and the late Isaac Hayes, Ms. Rabun created considerable buzz for her own skills with her 2011 release,… Continue reading Yolanda Rabun’s “Christmastime” ST Link/CD Review
Category: Jazz, Pop, Etc.
Dennis Angel, “Timeless Grooves,” ST CD Review & Preview Link
Whoever coined the phrase ‘don’t quit your day job’ probably couldn’t have envisioned someone like Dennis Angel coming along. A native New Yorker and trumpet player who studied under the tutelage of the acclaimed William Vacchiano, music was an early love and easy passion for Mr. Angel, but he opted for law school (he presently… Continue reading Dennis Angel, “Timeless Grooves,” ST CD Review & Preview Link
Kem, “What Christmas Means,” The ST CD Review
Let’s just keep it real, ladies and gentlemen: While it’s a given that most people enjoy music and Christmas, combining the two in the form of a holiday-themed CD can garner results that are not unlike a badly-made fruitcake, where the effort is pain-staking and well-intended, but the results are a cloying and super-sappy mess.… Continue reading Kem, “What Christmas Means,” The ST CD Review
Jackiem Joyner’s “Church Boy”, a ST CD Review
Selling on the secular charts yet raised in the realm of the sanctified: it’s a typical circumstance that defines many musicians, and what dictates their direction as artists differs from one to the next, since some see returning to spiritual leanings as an embrace of the past or inevitable recognition of their future (or fan… Continue reading Jackiem Joyner’s “Church Boy”, a ST CD Review
Lalah Hathaway: “Where It All Begins” For The First Daughter of Soul
My 2011 chat with one of music’s most revered voices, the incomparable Lalah Hathaway, LOVE this lady…. With a groomed-in-the-gospel mother and a soul icon as a father, there was practically no other option for Lalah Hathaway except music. And the release of her latest CD, Where It All Begins,only cements the righteousness of that… Continue reading Lalah Hathaway: “Where It All Begins” For The First Daughter of Soul