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Kamaal Williams Trio at Alte Feuerwache Mannheim On Thursday the 11th of January, I traveled up to Mannheim from Freiburg to catch British jazz keyboard player and music producer Kamaal Williams play one of his German tour dates. Normally I wouldn’t bother traveling over an hour by train to see a concert, but something about Williams and his music is very exciting to me. Admittedly, I wasn’t sure what the music would actually sound like since Williams and his former bandmate Yussef Dayes recently split up to do their own projects. Williams has put out solo work under the alias Henry Wu, but there is not a great deal of music by Williams and his new trio on the internet at the moment. **On May 25th 2018 Kamaal Williams released a new full length album entitled 'The Return'**   https://kamaalwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/the-return Listen to 'The Return' for free My strange faith in Kamaal Williams was sparked last spring, lets call it mid Februar

Virgin Forest: A Beginner’s Guide to the Music of Lionel Loueke I first discovered guitarist, percussionist and vocalist Lionel Loueke in a youtube video uploaded by Jazz Night in America. The video shows a performance by the ‘Blue Note All Star’ band Our Point of View (a play on the 1963 Herbie Hancock album My Point of View). I should explain for some context that I have an obsession with pianist Robert Glasper’s style of playing, so I frequently watch videos of his live performances. This obsession has been very educational for me, since in watching his performances I invariably end up discovering bandmates of his who are equally impressive musicians themselves, and as a result I gain a better understanding of the current landscape of jazz talent. Yes, I clicked on the Our Point of View performance to see Glasper play, but as usual, I came away with a new musician to google, follow and subsequently obsess over. Our Point of View is comprised of Robert Glasper, Ambrose