Episode 262: PBS #242: D'ANGELO & JAY-Z together on THE BOOK of CLARENCE (Mix)

01/14/24 • 25 min

January 13, 2024: The director of "The Harder They Fall" returns for an off-kilter dark comedy to kick off the new year.
Produced by JAY-Z and starring LaKEITH STANFIELD & TEYANA TAYLOR, Jeymes Samuel's latest comedy THE BOOK OF CLARENCE hits the big screen.
Marking this occasion with a romp through the crates for the first music set of 2024 featuring the sounds of
-FENYAN
-CHRIS DAVE & THE DRUMHEDZ
-SAULT
-YUSSEF DAYES
And the first ever collaboration of D'ANGELO & JAY-Z on "I WANT YOU FOREVER"
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Episode 261: PBS #241: LES McCANN (September 23, 1935 – December 29, 2023)

January 2, 2024
Leslie "Les" McCann, an exceptional jazz pianist, composer and vocalist who discovered a young Roberta Flack, and whose own works have been sampled by countless hip-hop artists, died last Friday (Dec. 29) at the age of 88.

Born into a musical family, Sept. 23, 1935 in Lexington, Kentucky, McCann would become one of jazz music's "most gifted and influential artists," reads a statement from Kevin Gore, president of Global Catalog, Recorded Music for Warner Music Group.
A self-taught pianist, McCann was an innovator in the soul jazz style, fusing jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms. He mastered all instruments before him, and enjoyed an unusual breakthrough, by winning a Navy talent contest, opening the door to an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

An early hit came with "The Shampoo," the 1963 instrumental cut with his trio for Pacific Jazz Records.

McCann would enjoy a fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records, releasing a dozen albums on the label from the late-‘60s through to the mid-‘70s.

During that run, Atlantic released Swiss Movement, featuring McCann, frequent collaborator, saxophonist and labelmate Eddie Harris, and trumpeter Benny Bailey. The album earned a Grammy nomination for best jazz performance – small group or soloist with small group, and included the protest song, "Compared to What," which McCann and Co. performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969.
Another career highlight would come in 1971, when McCann appeared with a starry cast of artists, including Wilson Pickett, The Staple Singers, Santana and Ike & Tina Turner, for an historic 14-hour concert in Accra, Ghana. The event was captured for the concert film Soul To Soul.

His ears might have been just as impressive as his hands. It was McCann who discovered and recommended Roberta Flack to Atlantic Records.

A stroke in the 1990s slowed McCann's output. So he channeled his energies into painting and photography, and he recovered for a string of music releases, including Pump It Up from 2002.

Gore remembers McCann as a great of jazz, the creator of "timeless" works. "While we deeply mourn his passing," Gore continues, "his music will live on in the hearts of millions of music fans across the globe."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/les-mccann-grammy-nominated-jazz-pianist-and-vocalist-dies-at-88/ar-AA1mlFuf

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Episode 263: PBS #243: MLK Edition w/THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

January 15, 2024: For this 2024 Dr Martin Luther King Jr edition of PSYCHOTIC BUMP SCHOOL, DJ ROME puts the electorate on notice that the fast approaching election season will be one like no other thanks in no small measure to key Democratic players in the 118th congress.
Officially & legislative known as THE UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE on OVERSIGHT and ACCOUNTABILITY, the investigative body held a very contentious hearing for HUNTER BIDEN-the son of current U.S. president JOE BIDEN.
PART 1 : Ranking member JAMIE RASKIN (Maryland, CENTER top), along with ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (New York, LEFT top), rising political star JASMINE CROCKETT (Texas, RIGHT top), JARED MOSKOWITZ (Florida, LEFT bottom), SHONTEL BROWN (Ohio, CENTER bottom), & DAN GOLDMAN (New York, RIGHT bottom) engaged in a 7 hour pitched battle with House Republicans over the issues of subpoena power. It gets heated very fast.
PART 2: Ranking member RASKIN and his colleagues puts on an absolute clinic as he provides a passionate rebuke of the flouting of constitutional norms in service to Donald Trump while offering a lesson on Emoluments.
PART 3: The discussion concludes with a homage to the legacy of DR KING with a word from the very first African-American to lead the Virginia House of Delegates, the honorable Speaker DON SCOTT. Lastly, Congressman MOSKOWITZ establishes the 2024 rules for engagement that will set a more aggressive tone toward combatting the one-sided GOP narrative of societal doom & decadence.
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