All About Jazz — Mean Fiddler and Elastic Artists presents THE STEVE REID ENSEMBLE 9th November 2009 @ The Jazz Cafe 5, Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PG 14 from seetickets.co.uk Doors: 7pm The Steve Reid Ensemble are set to play an exclusive London show at The Jazz... more info

Guardian Music — Apple's automated censoring service confuses the 1950s genre for a racial slur, marking song titles with an asteriskAn automated censoring service has left iTunes embarrassed after it censored "doo wop" to "doo w*p", confusing consumers, including Ra... more info

Soul Sides — Vicki Anderson: Answer to Mother PopcornFrom 7" (King, 1969). Also on Mother PopcornBobo Mr. Soul: Answer to the Want AdsFrom 7" (Ovide, 1971)Joyce Jones: Help Me Make Up My MindFrom 7" (ATCO, 1969). Also on What It Is!.Jeanne and the Darlings: Soul... more info

All About Jazz — Maceo Parker Debuts at Jazz at Lincoln Center November 13 and 14 The Allen Room Maceo Parker, perhaps best known as the second-in-command to the legendary James Brown, helped define funk from its origins. A long-venerated saxophone master, he will be... more info

Live Daily — On paper, the mere thought of 68-year-old Bob Dylan [ tickets ] croaking his way through a set of Yule-tide standards could have inspired the brains behind the "Golden Throats," those collections of hilariously bad recordings, to start compiling a ho... more info

Sixeyes — Nick Cave put his own spin on the oft recorded story about Lee "Stag Lee" Shelton, and called his take "Stagger Lee", on the classic 1996 album Murder Ballads. I say "his take" because other recordings have various versions of the name (and details)... more info

All About Jazz — The name Marty Sheller may not ring a bell. But anyone hip to Latin-jazz is aware of his enormous contribution to the music. First, that's Marty's trumpet solo on Mongo Santamaria's 1962 hit recording of Watermelon Man. The single helped launch the b... more info

MVSW — Here’s the old school for this week: Heavy D & The Boyz ~ “Gyrlz They Love Me” Off of the 1989 album Big Tyme. Samples: James Brown ~ “Hot Pants” James Brown ~ “Funky President” The Meters ~ “Thinking” *sorry but this was the ... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — These days, soul music is a genre often stuck in the side aisle of the record store or passed off into smoky cafés and '70s reunion shows. The originators of American soul music — Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and early James Brown — commandeered e... more info

Altsounds — The golden era of ‘60s and ‘70s soul music boasts a great tradition for Christmas songs and, following in the footsteps of classic Christmas albums from the Motown stable and James Brown, Strut enter the festive spirit this November... more info