Duke Ellington

1 month ago | udiscovermusic.com | Duke Ellington |Hannah Zwick

Roy Ayers, the genre-pioneering vibraphonist often called the ‘Godfather of Neo Soul,’ died in Manhattan on Tuesday. He was 84. His death was announced by his son Mtume, who shared that his father died in hospital after a long illness. Roy Ayers: NPR Music Tiny Desk ConcertAyers, a Los Angeles native, grew up in a musical family.

1 month ago | udiscovermusic.com | Duke Ellington |Will Schube

INXS have released a hard-charging and energetic version of “Biting Bullets,” recorded live at Royal Albert Hall in London on June 24, 1986. The new wave classic will be included on the band’s 40th anniversary reissue of Listen Like Thieves. The collection will arrive on May 9. The live version of “Biting Bullets” follows another pre-release single from the collection.

1 month ago | udiscovermusic.com | Duke Ellington |Tim Peacock

Sam Fender scored a well-deserved U.K. No. 1 with his 2019 debut Hypersonic Missiles, but he reached a much wider audience with “Seventeen Going Under”: an impassioned anthem from his second album that remains among his biggest hits to date. Hypersonic Missiles highlights such as “The Borders” and the suicide-related “Dead Boys” proved Fender could write affecting songs about his generation’s struggles, but on “Seventeen Going Under” the English singer-songwriter drew upon his own troubled past.

1 month ago | udiscovermusic.com | Duke Ellington |Sam Armstrong

Lewis Capaldi’s video for breakout single “Someone You Loved” is the latest to join the YouTube Billions Club. The recognition goes to videos that have surpassed more than one billion views on the platform. Released in 2018, the song was the Scottish singer’s third single from his second EP, Breach, and was later included on his debut album, 2019’s Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.

1 month ago | udiscovermusic.com | Duke Ellington |Will Schube

Grachan Moncur III’s 1964 avant-garde classic Some Other Stuff is set to be reissued on vinyl courtesy of Blue Note’s Tone Poet reissue series. The project will be released on May 2. Following his excellent 1963 debut Evolution, trombonist Grachan Moncur III ventured even deeper into experimental waters on 1964’s Some Other Stuff, a boldly avant-garde album featuring Moncur with an all-star cohort of fellow explorers including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee, and Tony Williams.