Posts Tagged Alicia Olatuja
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May 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ulysses Owens Jr: Songs of Freedom
Ulysses Owens Jr. Songs of Freedom Resilience Music Alliance LLC Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. has two previous albums as a leader and is known for his work with Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride among others. But for Songs of Freedom it’s his work with Elling that provides an obvious link – for this audacious project […]Archive
May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival
Welcome to episode 167 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here’s a conversation with Marnie Karmelita – she’s the […]Archive
April 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: March 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… For […]Archive
April 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Alicia Olatuja: Intuition – Songs From The Minds of Women
Alicia Olatuja Intuition: Songs From The Minds of Women Resilience Music Alicia Olatuja is a classically trained singer who shot to fame as the soloist in a gospel choir that served at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ceremony. Such backstories are the stuff of fantasy, and the can come close to triviliasing the talents – suggesting it was luck and whim, as if […]Archive
March 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman