Monday, September 19, 2011

Cold Crush Brothers~Jazzy Jay~Pharoahe Monch~Robert Glasper~Dawn Penn~ and more

Pharoahe Monch!!! at the RPM show @Drom 08.30.2011 with my dear friend, Robert Glasper Experiment.
This is for a movie called <RPM> and my favorite piannist, Robert Glasper is making soundtrack. He is an amazing pianist who played for many many amazing artists like, Maxwell ( I went to see Maxwell concert at Madison Square Graden last year and didnt know he was in the band!;-)), Q-Tip, Lala Hatheway ( I saw Robert and Lala gig at Blue Note...Oh that was sexy...), Roy Hargrove, MosDef, Roy Ayers and Pete Rock, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Erykah Badu and more...
Check his site for his amazing works, http://robertglasper.com/
Glasper’s first album, Mood, was released by Fresh Sound New Talent in 2004, after the pianist’s stints playing in bands with guitaristsRussell Malone and Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride, and trumpeters Terence Blanchard (Bounce) and Roy Hargrove. The album features six original compositions by Glasper alongside versions of “Blue Skies,” “Alone Together,” and Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” featuring guest vocalist Bilal. Glasper has said that his arrangement of the Hancock tune was inspired by the Radiohead song “Everything in Its Right Place.”<He has worked with Bilal and Mos Def as musical director, Q-Tip (The Renaissance), Kanye West (Late Registration), Meshell Ndegeocello (The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams), J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Common, Slum Village and Maxwell, with whom he toured extensively on 2009’s BLACKsummers'nighttour.>
And soon his new amazing album to come, you gotta check it out!
This day's special guest was this amazing MC, Pharoahe Monch!http://www.pharoahe.com/
Amazing show, Pharoahe MC and Robert's funky piano...wow!!!I really enjoyed that night although it was not a great day for Robert as he lost some important things...sorry! It was great seeing Igmar Thomas, Meghan Stabile, Danny Castro, and Jill Newman at this show!!!
<Digger's Delight: DJs Jazzy Jay, Lord Finesse, GrandMaster Caz + Red Alert> 08.23.2011
Legend Kool DJ Red Alert...Thank you for your performance and being one of the founding fathers of Hip-Hop music and culture!...http://www.kooldjredalert.com/
It was my friends, Jazzy Jay/Lord Finesse's DJ event in Harlem with Red Alert and Grand Master Caz. Of course Cold Crush Brothers members came out, like dear JDL!  
I have know him a while now but I hadn't seen his performance till this special day at my spot, Sutra Lounge NYC.
 <Cold Crush Brothers @Sutra NY 09.02.2011> It was somthing...I felt great vibe from those legends!Thank you thank you thank you!
Time to time, we see each other at Sutra and always he is nice to me...last night I saw Cold Crush Bothers on the TV-Vh1 for interview. I do appreciate this great warm friendship with legends always...thank you for your love!
If you don't know about cold crush brothers, please check this out!http://www.coldcrushbrothers.com/
Also my friend, DJ Jazzy Jay. Ohhh I wish I can work with you one of these days soon as you always giving me positive music! Thank you for your love to Hiphop.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzy_Jay
DJ Lord Finesse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Finesse has come to my Sutra event for support also with my loving MC Sadat X from Brand Nubian, Afu-ra, Mikel Banks and more! It was such a beautiful night, and Funky DJ Spinna thank you very much for throwing such a funky night!
We did our 1st event at Sutra with respectable my dear DJ Rich Medina...wow that was really hard work for me but OMG! So much fun and So much Love night! Check on his tour schedule, this man is always busy for great stuff!!! http://richmedina.com/
<Ghetto Metal at SOBs with Bazaar Royale and legendary reggae singer Dawn Penn 09-13-2011> I met Raye 6 after her performance for Ghetto Metal, I hadn't seen her really long time but it was great seeing her at SOB's! And she is always looking amazing... My drummer Bro, T-Bone used to play for Raye 6 and this events host, Bazaar Royale before, and T-Bone took me to their gigs sometimes but since T-Bone is touring with Public Enermy, I didn't go see them much but it was great meeting them all at Ghetto Metal! Also this night special guest was Legend singer Dawn Penn!!! http://www.dawnpennonline.com/
♪NO~NO~ NO~~~~!you dont love me and I know now~~♪♪♪  remember this song???
 And after Ghetto Metal I went to see Questlove DJ for fashion week after party @Griffin in Meet Packing Area. I was invited by dear friend Balewa (Rich Mason) but somehow the security guy at door was so a**hole and couldn't get in at all...expecially our hiphop clew, we were having difficult time to get in, then I met my Bro, Jeru The Damaja too! But still we all needed to wait outside...then Questlove came out...!!!The party was done!Damn damn...
So we all went to Sutra for Sutra owner, Sista Ariel's birthday with my girl friend DJ June and Tony Touch Toca Tuesday. Tony wasn't there on this day as he was in S.America but so many of my hiphop family came out and gathered together. Jeru was there, JDL came out with his wife and Big Jeff, (always love my Bro), VooDoo Ray, Danny Castro were of course there as this is their party, my boy Supreme (thank you for being my great friend), DJ Peace, Pesu-kun and more and more....I met Questlove's MC~Yameen Allworld~A Tribe Called Quest-Jarobi White~Dead Prez Fam,Umi ~Mazzi...all and all...It was a big love night from all of them and ended up danced till late (5am)...
What a beautiful music life!!!

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

LA~LV Funk Journey w/Quaze from PFunk/Snoop,Traffik Noize, Brother J, Lil Pimpin, and more...

LA was waiting for me coming down to experience its wild life!
See, I believe everything happens for the reason. I was told that I would be in LA for anything in September, and here I was, I had a great chance to be in LA.
This is all becoz of MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION, <P-Funk> and George Clinton!!!
I could join the project for Australian Singer Traffik Noize and Quazedelic (Quaze) form P-Funk all stars/Snoop Dogg producer.
Do you remember the movie-<Undercover Brother> with Eddie Griffin, Dennis Richards,Chris Kattan and Snoop Dogg? 
You remember the soundtrack of that movie <Undercova Funk> with Snoop Dogg and Bootsy Collins? Thats it! Thats it!!!


"Undercova Funk (We Got The Funk)"
Written by George Clinton (as George Clinton Jr.), William "Bootsy" Collins, Jerome Brailey,
C. Broadus and Stanley Mark Harris
Produced by Quaze

Performed by Snoop Dogg featuring Mr. Kane, Bootsy Collins, Quaze and Fred Wesley
Snoop Dogg appears Courtesy of Doggy Style Records / Priority Records
Mr. Kane appears Courtesy of Doggy Style Records

Please check out Quaze amazing Mixtape--->> http://worldwidefunk1.podomatic.com/entry/2011-07-10T10_32_00-07_00
First day-I finally got LA at 7PM after having difficulties in NY to get on the flight due to the weather problems... LA was warm although NY was already ready for Autumn-Winter...
We went to recording Studio that is managed by Quaze/his cousin Josef Leimberg who is a Jazz trumpetter/producer straight from LAX airport. James Brown, George Clinton, Bilal, Snoop Dogg, Bootsy Collins, P-Funk members and more people visited this studio and I was there sitting hearing their music!YES Moment!;-)
Second day-After we had Quaze amazing hand made Yammy brunch, they did some making beats session in the Quaze vacation house, we moved to Studio in LA again. That was amazing experience, making footage and meeting up from many young talented producers to legends like Brother J from X-Clan and his clew like Producer LuX. As they are from NY, we talked about the differences between NY and LA life and people. So as LIFE! It was great talk.
It was such a great meeting with KEIKO TSUKADA-san againnnnn! She is a famous hiphop writer for Bmr and more!!!Great to catch up with her again in LA! Thank you so much for your limited time to share with me...I really appreciate it, Keiko san!!!It was great to see Keiko-san and other artists hooked up and be in the circle too~!I hope something great comes out from this connection too.
Third day, again they did some beats session and moved to recording Studio for Traffik project and met some producers there again like MC Chill from original rapper/producer-C.M.W!Had a Jam night at the studio and we had a great time there again...Quaze is such a talented producer!

Forth day, it was sunny fine day....on September 11, we decided to go to LAS VEGAS! Its only 2-3 hours drive from Quaze vacation house, we passed desert, sand , sand ,sand... then LV showed up in middle of no where!We got our hotel-Hilton, then our room number was #1911... on September 11? No kidding!
On the way to our hotel we were joking about the billboard about Australian tribute to BeeGee's Show!
You dont believe this, on the monorail we were talking about going to see BeeGee's show as we had no idea what to do. Then the guy sitting in front of us was a manager, Michael Clift for this show!!!Then more over, this manager is from Melbourne Australia so as Traffik!!!Isnt this something?
Again positivity connects and bring positivities! Be who you are no matter what, no matter where!Then Better life and connection would come to you from them!!!
Well well, I felt LV is such a EGO city, Sin City, Pimp City...I experienced a lot of first things there...!!! It was whole different vibe from Atlantic City in NJ. Vegas is Vegas, serious sin vibe is going on...I guess the city is sounded by desert not by Ocean like Atlantic city thats why all the Ego and Sin vibe stays there, not to be released to the earth or air...hmmm...
Its all good, I had a great time and learnt a lot about USA, about west coast and made me think a lot about my life. In a way this experience opened my eyes up a bit, then reminded me what I forgot about people's life.
Hanging with Lil' Pimpin from (Snoop) Dogg Pound and others at his studio and hang with Limousine car was something...made me really think about women's life.
I know I cant be so serious about things time to time, I just let myself enjoy the moment no matter what.
Fifth day on the way back to LA, the car was overheated so I eneded up missed my flight back to NY.
But you know what, I could see and pray for Tupac where he got shot in Vegas right around the MGM a day before the day he was killed 10 years ago which is September 13th.
I just watched the Movie <NOTORIOUS> that is about Notorious B.I.G the day before I left NY for LA and Vegas and had been thinking about East side and West side Hiphop. Then in that movie, I saw this Tupac's accident and B.I.G's Murder...I even didnt think I would be these important places for hiphop in this trip but this experience made me and educated me a lot musically and historically about US Black cuture.
And from the car we saw one of the members of PFunk house. I could speak to him on the phone as he was on the road with George Clinton, I wish he were there in Vegas to put my life funk up more ;-) haha...
In the car, we had great conversation and learnt each other a lot in positive way. We heard great songs and felt positivity for all of us.
All and all I really enjoyed my stay in LA and Vegas.
Thank you very much for having me there, Quazedelic and Traffik!
And It was great nice meeting all of the people in LA and Vegas!!! 
I will come back soon fosho~~~!!! 

Monday, August 22, 2011

EricRoberson~EasyMoBee~MilesDavis~StanleyClarke~RoyHargrove~and more!

Eric Roberson <Sol Village> @SOBs on 08.17.2011.
It was a first time to see Eric Roberson <Sol Village> show in 10 years. I cant believe that I didnt go such a long time... Great meeting my friends who are working at SOBs.
DJ Magneto, Papa Jube, Johnny Quest, Peter, and Bouncers...Always great hanging with you guys!
And the same night Johnny had an accoustic night with Bazaar the Royale @ Bubble Lounge.
Both are really good shows actually, saw some musicians whom I know there too.
I made a new good friend there too but I start realizing finally that my conversation is sometimes difficult and too much for non-music people??? Probably my conversation is too much core about music to non-music person???
Hmmm....
Anyways, I was hanging with my great friends, Easy Mo Bee and Big (Zulu) Jeff on 08.20.2011 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn for someone's Birthday party @ The Emerson. I had not seen Easy Mo Bee after hanging out together with Miles Davis family at Miles Davis 85th Birthday exclusive party.
This was some historical night... at Miles Davis 85th birthday party, May 26th 2011.

I wish more hiphop people could come to the party but I did my best to gather people for them, expecially for Miles Davis nephew, Vince Willburn Jr (Drum).
It was the same day for leasing party for Monster® Miles Davis Tribute™ High Performance In-Ear Speakers and there was a promotion at J&R wall street.We gathered there together and moved to the party place. We celebrated Miles 85th birthday with Miles Davis Family...it was touchy, good vibe...and I couldnt believe that I was part of it...Thank God...
I could meet Great musicians like Onaje Allan Gumbs, Mino Cinelu along with Vince Wilburn, Jr. (nephew of Miles Davis); Cicely Tyson (actress, former wife of Miles Davis) Cheryl Davis (daughter of Miles Davis), Erin Davis (son of Miles Davis) Noel Lee (CEO of Monster Cable) and more.
Especially when I saw Easy Mo Bee came, I was feeling so light and right! I am so glad that he made it to come as for Miles Davis family, Easy Mo Bee is very special.
 Jazz pioneer Miles Davis approached the young producer to help fuse Jazz and Hip-Hop. These sessions would become his last album, 1992's Doo Bop. The project, released posthumously after Davis died during the recording process, leaving the project unfinished, garnered generally positive reviews.To finish off the album, producer Easy Mo Bee was asked to take some of the unreleased trumpet performances (stemming from what Davis called the RubberBand Session), and build tracks that Miles 'would have loved' around the recordings. The album's posthumous songs (as stated in the liner notes) are "High Speed Chase" and "Fantasy." A reprise of the song "Mystery" rounded out the album's nine-track length

The night before the Miles Davis Birthday, we went out to see Stanley Clarke @ Blue Note with special guest Lenny White and Wallace Roney!!!
We all hang out with Stanley's drummer Ronald Bruner Jr (Drum) after the show with Vince, Igmar Thomas (Trumpet), Wallace Roney (Trumpet), Lenny White (Drum), and Mile Davis Son Erin Davis.
Then there we met my favorite trumpetter ROY HARGROVE and his band members after playing @ Village Vanguard hanging @ Smalls. Stacy Dillard, Ameen Saleem. Willie Jones Ⅲ and more were there too.It was a very special night for real! We started jamming and ohhhhhhh my god... heavenly dream night for Jazz freak!!!
After Miles Davis Birthday party I went to see King Britt, Rich Medina and DJ Spinna party with House singers show like Singer girl from SoulⅡSoul at Santos party house.
Miles Davis family, Vince came out with Igmar Thomas, Easy Mo Bee, Mehgan, Vince, and more to Santos later to join us.Grand Puba, Dane One from Brand Nubian, joined us.  
We all had a great fantastic night ;-)
This is happening very much in NY...I love music and I love NY...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Funky Funk Lover -2- Mandrill, The BarKays, and NY musicians

Again, I had a great musical week...haaaaaaaaa It was all fun out.
Thursday 08-11-2011, legendary latin funk band <MANDRILL> was @ B.B King in NY. It was aaaaaa....AAAAA!!! So FUNKY and REAL! Oh my GOSH! MANDRILL, MANDRILL, MANDRILL!
Still they were mad funky and mad cool! It could be I was the youngest one there at the club... Old folks got Funk and got Crazy, screaming and dancing!!! It was nice to see them like that, powerful and energetic.

On Friday 08-12-2011, @ Dizzy's lincoln center Jazz I went to see my very great drummer friend, Willie Jones Ⅲ with Cedar Walton Quintet. That was very sexy Jazz...Again this old Jazz pianist, Cedar Walton is one of the legends. That is so good to hear him playing piano with funky cool Drummer Willie Jones.
Then Saturday,and Sunday 08-13/14-2011, I was with the legendary funk band <The BarKays>!!!!!!!! I had been waiting for them to come for months! This FUNK band came to NY from Memphis to play at Lincoln Center Jazz out of Doors show. Unfortunately as they got the Empire hotel on Saturday AM, it started dark in the sky and by the night we had a heavy rain...damn!
In this heavy rain we went out from Harlem to Village, ended up with the club called Groove. Another legendary drummer, Dennis Davis who played with Stevie Wonder, Roy Ayers, David Bowie, George Benson and more-took us around and showed NY to this Memphis BarKays Drummer, Carlos Sargent! It was very nice of him to take us around by his car...Thank you Dennis!
We wished this nasty rain gonna be dry out but our wish didnt get to the sky. Sound Check was from 1pm in heavy rain and the show was 7-8pm in real heavy rain!
We were not sure how many people were coming to see the show as it is outdoor. But once the show started, quite good amount people were there! I was very surprised! Also the BarKays did play some songs tribute to Otis Redding, Sam&Dave and more old school. You remember <SHAFT>? The original BarKays members recorded that song! And I could hear this SHAFT played by BarKays!!!Yey!!!
I wish I could hear more FUNK BarKays, but hold it till next time then...It was really great meeting some of my old and new good friends in NY!!!  Like Darrahl Stanley and Bryan Nesbitt from the BarKays...real funny good people! I really had a great time spending time with you guys!
And the only original member-leader and Bass Player- James Alexander who was the only Bar-Kays member not aboard that flight as the plane, a Beechcraft owned by Redding, only held eight occupants (Redding, five of the Bar-Kays, the pilot and Redding's road manager) it was Alexander's turn in the rotation to board a commercial flight to the next destination. Alexander had the task of identifying the bodies of his bandmates, as well as that of Redding.After the crash, Ben Cauley, the sole survivor among those who were aboard the plane, worked with Alexander to reform the band. Subsequent work included the soundtrack recording of the Academy Award-winning theme song from the 1971 feature film Shaft, on which Alexander played bass guitar. As of 2010, Alexander continues on as the only original member in still-active Bar-Kays.
Also the Lead Vocal,  Larry Dodson it was pleasure meeting you!
After the show we went to see Willie Jones at Dizzys again, another Drummers connection I made. I love Drummers! Well, I love musicians!!!It was great to see them together and talked deep music stuff and talking about NY how beautiful to be in NY for musicians!
Thank you very much for the fantastic weekend... ;-)


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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

♪I Love JAPAN♪☆Japan Benefit in New York!!!


How many people still remember that Japan had a big earthquake, Tsunami this year? Since then I have been trying to support any Japan benefit events and I started singing again myself also.
This is all for my lovely beautiful country JAPAN.
Fortunately my home town KYOTO was ok but still I hear there are so many earthquakes going on in Japan all the time.

I started singing for Danny Eason & Don't Give UpInternational Choir.This is for strictly Japan benefit. We are all great powerful singers singing voluntarily for Love to Japan. Our First Gig was at Lenox Lounge Jazz Japan benefit concert. My Pianist friend Lafayette was hosting this event and we successfully did great performance at legendary Lenox Lounge!!!
So far we have been doing great jobs everywhere like last week we performed for <Great day in Harlem> for Harlem week. We did perform for McDonald Gospel Festival that is one of the biggest Gospel Festivals in USA.My Favorite Kirk Franklin was one of the guest performers!!!
Now what we do sing for is to sell the music <Don't Give Up> then the money from sales straight goes to Japan. We unfortunately didn't record this song, it was already recorded by others but as we keed performing, we hope more people would know about us and can spread love to Japan. If you are interested, please go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-give-up-feat-danny-eason/id428590752

Also I have been attending to some great musicians, artists's Japanese benefit concerts, like                                                                    

<Marcus Miller Presents: BLUE NOTE JAZZ BENEFIT FOR JAPAN at Highline Ballroom>, with MCCOY TYNER, MADELEINE PEYROUX, RON CARTER, JOHN SCOFIELD, MICHEL CAMILO, JOE LOVANO, KENNY BARON, PAQUITO D'RIVERA, ROBERT GLASPER, ROY HARGROVE, CHRISTIAN SCOTT, JOHN LEE & MORE,featuring Robert Glasper, Sean Jones, Angelique Kidjo, Gregoire Maret, Raul Midon,Q-Tip, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Kaoru Watanabe, Louis Cato, Alex Han, Federico Gonzalez Pena, Vince Wilburn Jr., Wallace Roney, Maya Azucena and more!

<Heavy Sound at Coco 66 Brooklyn> with Lions Club, DJ Das san, Q-Tip, Sadat X (Brand Nubian), Large Professor, Schott Free, Smif-n-Wessun, O.C,JERU THE DAMAJA and more, 



<Jon Quick Select Events brought 9 AMAZING DJs together for Japan benefit> like Voltron to rock the venue known as Taj to its very core! Thanks to DJs D-Nice, Snatch-1, Commish, CEO, The Legendary Chris Washington, DJ Nickiee, M.O.S., Siba Giba...with Host KEVIN POWEL!!!



<GROOVE FOR JAPAN-EARTHDAY CAMPAIGN at Katra> "LOVE SAVE JAPAN"

Main Floor Deejays: Just Blaze * Tony Touch * StimuluCosi * Tahleim * ASAHI SUZUKI
Groove Floor Deejays : Spinna * Nickodemus *Jephte Guillaume * Slam Mode * Antonio Ocasio
Special screening of "Be The E" campaign & Live Painting by Pesu Art.
<Love Save Japan> events like one with QuestLove and Pesu kun live painting event at Brooklyn Bowl,
The other event was Guest DJ Marley Marl, Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth at pop burger New York and more. LOVE SAVE JAPAN is founded by my lovely girl friend-Mariko, their logo Tote bags and T-shirts are available to purchase at J-Crew shops. I respect her a lot for this movement! We all wnat to spread our love and appreciation to Japan and to the world!!! <3
All these legends told us how much they love Japan and they would like to give us back for something... I spoke to more musicians about Japan, Love and music.
I was talking to Bootsy Collins members and George Clinton and P-Funk All stars of course about Japan. Bootsy is going to be there in Aug, and George Clinton and P-Funk all stars were there right before the Earthquake!
Bootsy has been wearing old school Japanese Flag on his head at the beginning of the shows during the World Tour!!! This means a lot to us, Japanese people!!!
I appreciate them more now for their love to Japan and I am more to be a proud Japanese!
Thank you very much y'all for your Love!!!


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