• Momo Wandel Soumah

    M'mu Akolon Momo Wandel Soumah

    Momo Wandel Soumah

    Guinean singer, composer, and alto saxophonist, Momo “Wandel” Soumah, was considered one of the greatest saxophonists in Africa. He was the troupe Circus Baobab and was very influenced by jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman. He mixed jazz and traditional music from the lower coast of Guinea (the Soussou and the Baga). Endowed with has superb voice Wandel surrounded himself with a highly talented group of traditional musicians. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Aja Monet

    elsewhere (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello, Georgia Anne Muldrow & Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow) Aja Monet

    Aja Monet

    Aja Monet (sometimes stylized in all lowercase) is an American contemporary poet, writer, lyricist and activist based in Los Angeles, CA, United States. She has published many books and poems. Here on Last.fm we will focus on her recorded output, mostly spoken word poetry to a musical background. In 2019, Monet collaborated with Eryn Allen Kane for Kane's album, A Tree Planted by Water. In 2021, with Smoke Signals Collective, Monet released 'The FREE Tape' Read more on Last.fm

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  • Bruno Berle

    Outra Noite Bruno Berle

    Bruno Berle

    Maceió, the capital of Brazil’s Alagoas state on its sprawling east-coast, is home to pastel coloured colonial houses, white sand beaches and a brilliant young composer, poet and multi-instrumentalist named Bruno Berle. With a voice of pure gold and a startling sensitivity for heartfelt pop songwriting, on No Reino Dos Afetos (In the Realm of Affections), Berle firmly embraces earnestness, through starry-eyed Brazilian love songs, ambient vignettes, warm, home-cooked beats and gentle strokes of MPB genius. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Anaiis

    Sunshine Anaiis

    Anaiis

    Anaiis (formerly known as Anaïs) is a London-based singer-songwriter who released her debut EP 'before zero' in 2018. Born in Toulouse, France to a Senegalese father and Franco-Italian mother, Anaiis played violin and sang in a classical choir. At the age of ten, she moved to Dublin, learned English and started to experiment as a songwriter. Later relocating to California, where her first exposure to gospel and R&B led to a love of soul music, and to New York, where she graduated from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Lenny White

    Sweet Dreamer Lenny White

    Lenny White

    A versatile drummer, Lenny White is still best-known for being part of Chick Corea's Return To Forever in the 1970's. White was self-taught on drums and he largely started his career on top, playing regularly with Jackie McLean (1968) and recording "Bitches Brew" with Miles Davis in 1969. White was soon working with some of the who's who of jazz including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Gato Barbieri, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke and Stan Getz among others. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Resavoir

    Dream Time Jingle Resavoir

    Resavoir

    Resavoir is a Chicago-based jazz collective. On their debut album Resavoir from 2019 they performed a selection of compositions which grew out of the home recording experiments of the group's producer/arranger, Will Miller. The other members of the group include Akenya Seymour, Lane Beckstrom, Irvin Pierce, Jeremy Cunningham, Peter Manheim, and more Read more on Last.fm

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