New art by Charlene Cooper "B.O.M.B." Blood Of My Brothers

Greetings,

I am a local Philadelphia artist and this is my new release, I am using this piece to raise funds and awareness of the many African-Americans @ war and portions of proceeds from the sale of this print will help to support the efforts of the silly string campaign. If you are unaware please read more about this on www.abc.com. The organizers are parents of soldiers fighting in the Middle East, and the silly string helps the troops in locating booby traps without setting them off, because I am so passionate about this idea I am willing to donate because any effort to bring the US Troops home safely to their loved ones instead of a folded flag is all worth it to me, and that goes for troops of all races. I ask that you help me in my efforts, by purchasing, distributing or simply exposing this artwork to all. Please feel free to contact me at any time, and visit www.artwanted.com/CHARMAR for more artworks.

Peace & Blessings,

Charlene

Heather Park News

3.9.07 Showcase in Hartford, CT
After a mellowed acoustic performance the other week at School 105, the host June Archer invited us to come up and play at a showcase he was putting on in Hartford, CT. We’ll be travelling up there with our full band to do a small set, so if you’re in the area, please come through and say hello!

June Archer, Eleven28 Entertainment & The Bushnell Theater Present:
Hot Chocolate Soul The Autorino Great Hall The Bushnell
166 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106-1621
Showtime 9.00 pm Cover $22
For details, please e-mail: steve@stushmusic.com

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3.17.07 IMPORTANT SHOW @ the Bitter End
Last December, my incredible band and I had an electrifying show at The Hook in Brooklyn, and we WON the first round of the Emergenza Competition! This show will be Round 2! It’s really important that we get as many people to attend, so you can vote for your favorite bands!
Please come through to show your love & support…Malikah Love will be back singing with us in full glory, so please give her a warm welcome back! I promise it will be a fantastic show. Plus I have an eerie feeling that it’s also St. Pattie’s Day, so it should prove to be a particularly debaucherous time!

WHEN: Saturday, March 17th
WHERE: The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and LaGuardia)
TICKETS: $10 prior to the show. For tickets, please e-mail me: heartheparknews@gmail.com, or steve@stushmusic.com!

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4.17.07 Show @ the Cutting Room
So, we got bumped from our original Feb date at this venue (and for a tranny, at that!…long story). But luckily, we’ve rescheduled for April 17th! This will be a FULL 1-hour set w/ my uber-talented band. It’ll be a great way to spend your Tuesday!

WHEN: 9pm, Tuesday, April 17th
WHERE: The Cutting Room, 19 West 24th St, New York City
TICKETS: $10 @ the door

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“Dream In Pictures” in rotation…
This week “Dream In Pictures” has been added to two internet radio station playlists.
Much love to my Girl Poetic Sunshyne for adding us to www.danawlinzgroove.com. This a great show and a great outlet to hear and support independent artists. Drop her a line and let her know how you feel. Tell her Heather sent you.

Hot Buttered Soul HBS

Hot Buttered Soul HBS
@ The Park Bar, Bristol

Saturday 3rd March 2007


A 5 hour musical journey thru Soul, Jazz, Latin, Bossa, Funk & Soulful dance
from new brand releases to cool classics with resident record changer mike shawe

We very much look forward to your company

10.30pm-3.30 am 2 o.t.d.
(usually free before 10pm)


The Park . 37 Triangle West
Clifton . Bristol
BS8 1ER

0117 940 6101
07789744062

http://www.theparkbristol.com

About The Park…

Winner of Theme Magazine’s best-new-bar-in-the-west-and-wales award, The Park is a small, but perfectly formed, late-licensed bar with a private lounge available for hire upstairs

The interior is timeless, stylish, and very comfortable, and the quality of the extensive (and often exotic) drinks menu is matched by the food, supplied by equally award-winning local restaurants, Budokan and The Olive Shed

forthcoming dates for your diary …

Saturday 24th March
Soulfusion – @ Dowty Sports & Social club, Gloucester
Website http://www.soulfusion-soulnites.co.uk/
View Flyer http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/13039/user/207685/372692.gif

Saturday 31st March
Hot Buttered Soul HBS @ The Elbow Room, Bristol
Website http://www.theelbowroom.co.uk/bristol/index.aspx

Saturday 7th April
Hot Buttered Soul HBS @ The Park Bar, Bristol
View Flyer http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/13039/user/207685/375001.jpg

Friday 20th April
Mike Shawe @ Soulful Sessions, Worcester
View flyer http://www.soulstuff.co.uk/SoulfulSessions/SSFlyerPage.htm
Website http://www.soulstuff.co.uk/SoulfulSessions/SSMainPage.htm

Friends & recommended websites

http://www.lifeandsoulpromotions.co.uk/
http://www.soulstuff.co.uk/
http://www.essentialmodernsoul.co.nr/
http://www.soul-source.co.uk/

Neo Soul Concert

Kelli Sae @ SOB’s Next Thursday March 8th!!!

Hey hey hey!!!!
Soooooo, it’s still cold yes it is!
But it will be hot inside @ SOB’s on March 8th!
Come n’ hang – especially if I haven’t seen you in a while. =)
We are celebrating Women’s History Month.
No snow storm planned thank goodness.
Hope to see you.
Kelli

The Paul ‘Tubbs’ Williams Benefit Concert

Media Release

The Paul ‘Tubbs’ Williams Benefit Concert
(Founding member of Light of the World and Incognito)

With the sad passing of Paul ‘Tubbs’ Williams on the 10th January 2007,
His friends Jean Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick (Incognito), Kenny Wellington, Breeze
Mckrieth, David Baptiste (Light of the World/Beggar and Co) and Camelle
Hinds (Central Line/The Style Council), set up a Benefit not only to help
Pauls family but also Pauls dream which is known as Liquid Spillers in
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

There will be a Benefit Concert on April 9th 2007 at Dingwalls, London to remember Pauls contribution to music as well as bringing together of some of the most influential artists in UK Jazz Funk and Soul.

The Evening will comprise of the following artists:
Incognito, Light of the World (The Original Founding members) Beggar and Co,
Central Line, Noel Mckoy (JTQ/McKoy) Courtney Pine, Orphy Robinson, Andy
Gangandeen, Leee Johns (Imagination) Junior Giscombe, The JazzCotech Dancers,
Marc Mac(4Hero) Chris Hill, Dez Parkes and many more artists showing an intrest in
joining the Benefit.

Tickets are priced at £20 in advance. Tickets can be purchased from
www.Seetickets.com

All proceeds will be dontated to Joja Jules Williams and Liquid Spillers so as to keep
Pauls dream alive of bringing music and education together under one roof.

The Williams family will be in attendance at the Benefit Concert.

For media requests, please contact Sharmin Hall Jones on 07809886490 or email at
Sharmin@funkmanagementuk.com or Marcus Skinner on 07870133765 or email
Marcus@funkmanagementuk.com

Cortney Pine – Junior Giscombe – Orphy Robinson – Noel McKoy
Camelle Hinds – Bluey
Email: Info@funkmanagementuk.com
Management: Funk Management UK Ltd
www.Funkmanagementuk.com

Chris Chandler Interview

can be found here: – Chris Chandler

Lynne Fiddmont

New interview at:-
Lynne Fiddmont

Dennis Rolllins

Multi-award winning British jazz star

Dennis Rollins
has been selected as Guest Programme Director of this year’s Glasgow International Jazz Festival

We are about to launch a five-year plan that will take us beyond being a series of concerts. We are delighted that Dennis has agreed to be our inaugural Guest Programme Director. With performances, exhibitions and participative events, Dennis is going to help us celebrate the roots and the future of jazz
Simon Clark, Chair of Glasgow International Jazz Festival

Not only is 2007 the bi-centenary of the abolition of slavery in the UK, and the lucky Chinese Year of the Pig, but it is also the 21st anniversary of the wonderful Glasgow International Jazz Festival, for which I have the great fortune to have been given the role of Guest Programme Director – wow! I’m delighted and proud to be associated with a jazz festival of this stature and look forward to being part of the creative team that has assembled some really amazing programmes during its long history. I’m determined to help make this one of the best UK jazz festivals of the year!
Dennis Rollins

Glasgow International Jazz Festival runs Friday 22 June to Sunday 1 July 2007

Dennis Rollins is an acclaimed musician, composer and educator, well-known on the British and international jazz scene, and celebrated for his versatility and unique approach to the underrated trombone, to which he brings a unique and exciting approach. His mighty sound can be heard to full effect in his award winning band Badbone & Co’s repertoire of groove-based, funky dance music with jazz overtones. Badbone & Co won the prestigious BBC Jazz Award for Best Band last year, and Dennis picked up the Marston’s Pedigree British Jazz Award for Best Trombonist; he was also nominated in the Best Jazz Act category at the Urban Music Awards 2006.

Born in 1964 in the Midlands to Jamaican parents, and raised in South Yorkshire, Dennis cut his teeth at the age of 14 studying and performing with The Doncaster Youth Jazz Association. After years of study, Dennis moved to London and began playing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) and the legendary all-black jazz big band The Jazz Warriors. Over the years, Dennis, now based in Doncaster, has established a reputation as an artist of excellence and has lent his unique and stylish talents to some of this country’s, and indeed the world’s, top jazz and pop personalities such as Courtney Pine, Baba Maal, Jamiroquai, US3, Brand New Heavies and Blur. Dennis is an Ambassador for the National Foundation for Youth Music’s Endangered Species programme, set up to boost youth interest in instruments such as the trombone, French horn, double bass, tuba and oboe, and is also on the Board of Advisors of the British Trombone Society.

In addition to being Guest Programme Director for the Glasgow International Jazz, Dennis is also Artist in Residence at the ever-popular Marsden Jazz Festival in October.

Dennis Rollins’ Badbone & Co has released three critically acclaimed albums: Badbone , Make Your Move, and last year’s Big Night Out! which is classic Dennis Rollins, with extra funk.

www.dennisrollins.com
www.myspace.com/dennisrollins
www.jazzfest.co.uk

James Taylor’s 4th Dimension

Hammond funk guru’s new outfit

James Taylor’s 4th Dimension
releases its debut album
Picking Up Where We Left Off
on
Monday 14 May 2007
(Real Self Records; RS5346)

More than enough Hammond organised power to grab the attention of the most indifferent audience; they pack a genuinely solid punch
Jack Massarik, Evening Standard

James Taylor is best known as leader of the James Taylor Quartet (JTQ), where his trademark funky Hammond vibe is featured to fine effect. JTQ’s fired-up signature tune, The Theme from Starsky and Hutch, cemented the band’s reputation as masters of the jazz-funk-r’n’b workout; 60s spy themes, psychedelic and free-form jazz all added something to the band’s distinctive sound. Describing his new outfit, James Taylor’s 4th Dimension, the Rochester-based Hammond guru – affectionately known as ‘the Medway Monarch’ – says: ‘This project is something I’ve been promising myself for a long while. It’s an opportunity to return to, and further explore, the endless possibilities offered by the classic Hammond quartet format, but this time with 20 years of recording, writing, and performing experience behind us’. All 12 album tracks on Picking Up Where We Left Off are written by James, and the line-up is as follows: James Taylor – Hammond C3 organ; Nigel Price – guitar; Andy McKinney – bass; Neil Robinson – drums.

Originally playing the Hammond B3 organ in the UK mod revival band The Prisoners, James Taylor formed his own quartet in 1985, and began playing music similar to the rare-groove jazz-funk then in vogue around London. By the early 90s, that movement had spawned acid jazz, and JTQ found itself at the forefront of a vibrant young club scene. The first single, Blow-Up – a funked-up version of Herbie Hancock’s theme from the seminal 60s film of the same name – was released in 1985 on the Re Elect The President label, a precursor to Acid Jazz. The band’s debut album, Mission Impossible, was released the following year, predominantly consisting of covers of 60s film themes such as Alfie, Mrs. Robinson and Goldfinger. In the early 1990s, the single Love The Life reached the Top 40 and the accompanying album, Supernatural Feeling, settled in the Top 30 UK charts. After releases on Polydor and Big Life Records, JTQ returned to Acid Jazz, and In The Hand of The Inevitable remains the label’s biggest selling album to date. The latest JTQ album, A Taste of Cherry, was released in September last year.

In 1997 James had the chance to fulfil a dream when he was asked to score the theme tune to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the spy spoof starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley. JTQ’s Whole Lotta Live album was nominated for a MOBO award in 1998, and the following year James featured on Tom Jones’ duets album, Reload. James’ musical talent has been admired by numerous other acts: The Wonderstuff, Manic Street Preachers, The Pogues and U2 have all featured James and his distinctive Hammond sound on their albums.

www.jtq.co.uk

Sean Rasul

Click the link below to read Sean Rasul’s full-length interview with Soul2K
Promotions in France. When reading the interview, the “suite” link at the
bottom of the article will take you to the next page. Enjoy and stay cool!

http://www.soul2k.com/agenda/interviews/sean_interview.html

Country Cool Records
www.countrycoolonline.com
www.countrycoolonline.com/smf
www.myspace.com/countrycoolrecords

The Juice Monday 26 feb 2007

on my slot on Monday on http://www.solarradio.com/ or Sky Digital Channel 0129 between 10 and 12 (my slot scheduled for 11.30 ish)

i plan to feature:-

the new Jahah album Melting Pot,
Heather Park tracks (not on album)
Astral 22 presents Simone
Anise

New and Pre Release indie soul

Hope you can find time to check it out.

Thanks

Mike

The juice – March and April schedules

Monday Nights on http://www.solarradio.com/ or Sky Digital Channel 0129 between 10 and 12 (my slots scheduled for 11.30 ish)(UK times)

5th 11.00 -11.30 Deborah Hinds Planetsoul.com
11.30 -12.00 Kaoru/Nagisa Gio/Tokyo
12th11.00 -11.30 Dan CE NYC
11.30 -12.00Soulportal DK
19th11.00 -11.30 Honeysoul
11.30 -12.00 Sonicsoul Germany
26th11.00 -11.30Soul on Ice Toronto
11.30 -12.00 Life and soul UK

Aneel Robinson will have a special feature at 10.15 on 12th March

Unified Tribe will have a special feature on 19th March at 10.15

April is a 5 Monday Month so please make a note of these dates

2/ 11 -11.30 Planet soul Deb Hinds 11.30 – 12.00 Kaouru JFN Japan

9/ 11 – 11.30 Dan CE NYC 11.30 -12.00 Soul Portal Dk

16/ 11 -11.30 Honeysoul 11.30 – 12.00 Soulsonic.de

23/ 11.-11.30 Soul on Ice Toronto 11.30 – 12.00 JustSoul Italy

30/ 11 -11.30 Baby&Harmony Juice and Jam 11.30 -12.00 Life and Soul UK

Soul Damn Phisticated! Radio Show – Podcast #252

Podcast #252 Hosted by DaveCee
Written by DaveCee

The Soul Damn ‘Phisticated! Radio Show is sponsored by;

Soul101.com a unique website specialising in providing 100% legal downloads from across the full spectrum of soul music, including Jazz, Modern Soul, Funk, R&B, Soulful House and much much more!

This week we have Jimmy Levine in interview for the middle hr of the show. We chat about his life in the music biz and feature some tracks from his cd ”Share my Love” which is out now all over the world. We also drop a couple of new bits to watch out for like the new Adriana Evans cut ”New Day” from her brand new cd ”El Camino” out on Expansion very soon plus Cognac, U-Nam ft Rahsaan Patterson and Omari Shabazz.

Reminisce features Eddie Henderson, Ashford and Simpson, The Natural Four and a few more monster classic soul tunes to wrap up the show!

Contact us via e-mail (the addresses are included in the shows), use the ‘contact us’ page on the site or drop a message on our NEW AND REVAMPED GUESTBOOK

GET YOUR REQUESTS AND DEDICATIONS IN NOW FOR OUR SPECIAL REQUEST SHOW , AT THE END OF EVERY MONTH!

We appreciate your feedback! Check out what’s what at www.sourmash.co.uk

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