Friday, January 6, 2023

WELCOME TO THE SOUND PROJECTIONS MUSICAL ARTISTS SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND REFERENCE ARCHIVE

PLEASE NOTE: AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2022 FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE musical artists have been featured in the Sound Projections archive thus far…

THE 500th AND FINAL MUSICAL ARTIST ENTRY IN THIS NOW COMPLETED EIGHT YEAR SERIES WILL BE POSTED ON THIS SITE NEXT SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023.

[FROM THAT DATE FORWARD THE SOUND PROJECTIONS SITE WILL CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS AN ONGOING PUBLIC ARCHIVAL RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY REFERENCE RESOURCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN PURSUING THEIR LOVE OF AND INTEREST IN WHAT THE POSTED INFORMATION AND VARIOUS ANALYSES OFFERS ON BEHALF OF EACH ARTIST ENTRY SINCE NOVEMBER 1, 2014]

ACCESS TO EACH ARTIST CAN BE FOUND HERE, WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE 'BLOG ARCHIVE' (ARTISTS LISTED IN WEEKLY CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) AND ‘LABELS' (ARTIST NAMES, TOPICS, ETC.) ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOME PAGE. CLICK ON THESE RESPECTIVE LINKS TO ACCESS THEIR CONTENT:

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PHOTO:  BAIKIDA CARROLL  (b.  January 15, 1947)


 

PHOTO:  TERRY POLLARD  (1931-2009)


 

Musical artists featured in Sound Projections archive:


November 1, 2014—Present

(In order of appearance, thus far)…


Anthony Braxton (b. June 4, 1945)


Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)


Stevie Wonder (b. May 13, 1950)


Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)


Geri Allen (1957-2017)


Herbie Hancock (b. April 12, 1940)


Sonny Rollins (b. September 7, 1930)


Janelle MonĂ e (b. December 1, 1985)


Gary Clark, Jr. (b. February 15, 1984)


Nina Simone (1933-2003)


Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)


WAYNE SHORTER (b. August 25, 1933)


Sun Ra (1914-1993)


Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981)


Steve Coleman (b. September 20, 1956)


JAMES BROWN (1933-2006)


CURTIS MAYFIELD (1942-1999)


ARETHA FRANKLIN (1942-2019)


George Clinton (b. July 22, 1941)


James Carter (b. January 3, 1969)


Terence Blanchard (b. March 13, 1962)


Billie Holiday (1915-1959)


Vijay Iyer (b. October 26, 1971)


Charles Mingus (1922-1979)


DUKE ELLINGTON (1899-1974)


ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO (1967-Present)


Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)


Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. May 27, 1950)


MILES DAVIS (1926-1991)


Jill Scott (b. April 4, 1972)


Regina Carter (b. August 6, 1966)


Betty Davis (1945-2022)


Erykah Badu (b. February 26, 1971)


Al Green (b. April 13, 1946)


Chuck Berry (1926-2017)


SLY STONE (b. March 15, 1943)


Eric Dolphy (1928-1964)


MARVIN GAYE (1939-1984)


Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010)


RAY CHARLES (1930-2004)


SADE (b. January 16, 1959)


Betty Carter (1929-1998)


CHARLIE PARKER (1920-1955)


MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009)


Chaka Khan (b. March 23, 1953)


JOHN COLTRANE (1926-1967)


SARAH VAUGHAN (1924-1990)


THELONIOUS MONK (1917-1982)


Laura Mvula (b. April 23, 1986)


JOHN BIRKS "DIZZY" GILLESPIE (1917-1993)


LESTER YOUNG (1909-1959)


Tia Fuller (b. March 27, 1976)


ROSCOE MITCHELL (b. August 3, 1940)


MAX ROACH (1924-2007)


DINAH WASHINGTON (1924-1963)


BUDDY GUY (b. July 30, 1936)


JOE HENDERSON (1937-2001)


HENRY THREADGILL (b. February 15, 1944)


MUDDY WATERS (1913-1983)


B.B. KING (1925-2015)


NAT KING COLE (1919-1965)


JACKIE McLEAN (1931-2006)


ETTA JAMES (1938-2012)


Terri Lyne Carrington (b. August 4, 1965)


NANCY WILSON (b. February 20, 1937)


BOB MARLEY (1945-1981)


LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1901-1971)


HORACE SILVER (1928-2014)


SHIRLEY HORN (1934-2005)


T-Bone Walker (1910-1975)


Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976)


Dianne Reeves (b. October 23, 1956)


Wadada Leo Smith (b. December 18, 1941)


AHMAD JAMAL (b. July 2, 1930)


DIONNE WARWICK (b. December 12, 1940)


LEE MORGAN (1938-1972)


BILL DIXON (1925-2010)


SAM COOKE (1931-1964)


MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS (1930-2017)


BILLY HARPER (b. January 17, 1943)


Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)


Quincy Jones (b. March 14, 1933)


BESSIE SMITH (1894-1937)


ROBERT JOHNSON (1911-1938)


Julius Hemphill (1938-1995)


Arthur Blythe (1940-2017)


Oscar Brown, Jr. (1926-2005)


Donny Hathaway (1945-1979)


Eugene McDaniels (1935-2011)


Roberta Flack (b. February 10, 1939)


Woody Shaw (1944-1989)


Antoine “Fats” Domino (b. February 26, 1928)


Clifford Brown (1930-1956)


Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959)


Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977)


Charles Brown (1922-1999)


Bobby Hutcherson (1941-2016)


George E. Lewis (b. July 14, 1952)


James Blood Ulmer (b. February 2, 1940)


Rachelle Ferrell (b. May 21, 1964)


Andrew Hill (1931-2007)


Carmen McRae (1920-1994)


Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016)


Lianne La Havas (August 23, 1989)


Andra Day (December 30, 1984)


Archie Shepp (b. May 24, 1937)


World Saxophone Quartet (1977-Present)


Art Blakey (1919-1990)


Christian McBride (b. May 31, 1972)


Dexter Gordon (1923-1990)


Jeanne Lee (1939-2000)


Cassandra Wilson (b. December 4, 1955)


Sam Rivers (1923-2011)


Terry Callier (1945-2012)


Odetta Holmes (1930-2008)


Lester Bowie (1941-1999)


Macy Gray (b. September 6, 1969)


Hampton Hawes (1928-1977)


Grachan Moncur III (b. June 3, 1937)


Larry Young (1940-1978)


David Murray (b. February 19, 1955)


Oliver Lake (b. September 14, 1942)


Gerald Wilson (1918-2014)


Don Byron (b. November 8, 1958)


Kenny Garrett (b. October 9, 1960)


Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969)


Elmore James (1918-1963)


Wes Montgomery (1923-1968)


Fela Kuti (1938-1997)


Oliver Nelson (1932-1975)


Son House (1902-1988)


John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)


Earth Wind and Fire (1970-Present)


Jack DeJohnette (b. August 9, 1942)


Albert Ayler (1936-1970)


Vi Redd (b. September 20, 1928)


Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982)


Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (1928-1975)


James Newton (b. May 1, 1953)


Art Tatum (1909-1956)


Sonny Clark (1931-1963)


Jason Moran (b. January 21, 1975)


Sonny Stitt (1924-1982)


Bud Powell (1924-1966)


Jazzmeia Horn (b. April 21, 1991)


Roy Haynes (b. March 13, 1925)


McCoy Tyner (b. December 11, 1938)


Ambrose Akinmusire (b. May 1, 1982)


Aaron Diehl (b. September 22, 1985)


Cecile McLorin Salvant (b. August 28, 1989)


Reggie Workman (b. June 26, 1937)


Andrew Cyrille (b. November 10, 1939)


Barry Harris (b. December 15, 1929)


Marquis Hill (b. 1987)


Herbie Nichols (1919-1963)


Greg Osby (b. August 3, 1960)


Tyshawn Sorey (b. July 8, 1980)


Jaleel Shaw (b. February 11, 1978)


Count Basie (1904-1984)


Nicholas Payton (b. September 26, 1973)


Jonathan Finlayson (b. 1982)


Jimmy Heath (b. October 25, 1926)


Brian Blade (b. July 25, 1970)


Ravi Coltrane (b. August 6, 1965)


Christian Scott (b. March 31, 1983)


Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)


Mark Turner (b. November 10, 1965)


Craig Taborn (b. February 20, 1970)


Tomeka Reid (b. 1977)


Faruq Z. Bey (1942-2012)


Hank Jones (1918-2010)


Stanley Cowell (b. May 5, 1941)


George Russell (1923-2009)


Alice Coltrane (1937-2007)


Don Cherry (1936-1995)


Mal Waldron (1925-2002)


Jon Hendricks (1921-2017)


Matthew Shipp (b. December 7, 1960)


Pharoah Sanders (b. October 13, 1940)


Walt Dickerson (1928-2008)


Dorothy Ashby (1930-1986)


Milford Graves (b. August 20. 1941)


Louis Jordan (1908-1975)


Joseph Jarman (1937- 2019)


Otis Blackwell (1931-2002)


Marion Brown (1931-2010)


The Roots (1987-Present)


Billy Bang (1947-2011)


Stefon Harris (b. March 23, 1973)


Memphis Minnie (1897-1973)


Harold Land (1928-2001)


Willie Dixon (1915-1992)


Teddy Wilson (1912-1986)


George Walker (b. June 27, 1922)


Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)


Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007)


Lauryn Hill (b. May 26, 1975)


John Hicks (1941-2006)


Anthony Davis (b. February 20, 1951)


Ron Miles (1963-2022)


A Tribe Quest (1990-2017)


Nnenna Freelon (b. July 28, 1954)


Kenny Dorham (1924-1972)


Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904-1943)


William “Smokey” Robinson (b. February 19, 1940)


The Temptations (1963-Present)


John Carter (1929-1991)


Randy Weston (1926-2018)


Holland Dozier and Holland (1962-1992)


Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)


Bobby Bradford (b. July 19, 1934)


The Supremes (1961-1977)


The Four Tops (1953-Present)


The Spinners (1957-Present)


The Isley Brothers (1954-Present)


Thom Bell (b. January 26, 1943)


The O’Jays (1960-2018)


Otis Redding (1941-1967)


Booker T. Jones (b. November 12, 1944)


The Stylistics (1968-Present)


The Staple Singers (1948-1994)


Otis Rush (1935-2018)


Erroll Garner (1921-1977)


Earl Hines (1903-1983)


Bo Diddley (1928-2008)


Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958)


Cindy Blackman-Santana (b. November 18, 1959)


Ruth Brown (1928-2006)


John Lewis (1920-2001)


Julius Eastman (1940-1990)


Public Enemy (1986-Present)


Wallace Roney (1960–2020)


Modern Jazz Quartet (1952-1997)


De La Soul (1987-Present)


Kathleen Battle (b. August 13, 1948)


Wynton Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961)


Rhiannon Giddens (b. February 21, 1977)


Don Pullen (1941-1995)


Shirley Scott (1934-2002)


Freddie Hubbard (1938-2008)


Bill Withers (1938–2020)


OutKast (1992-Present)


J. J. Johnson (1924-2001)


Jimmy Smith (1928-2005)


Jackie Wilson (1934-1984)


Little Richard (b. December 9, 1932)


Kenny Barron (b. June 9, 1943)


Buster Williams (b. April 17, 1942)


Mos Def (b. December 11, 1973) 


Run-D.M.C. (1981-2002)


Ben Webster (1909-1973)


Gene Ammons (1925-1974)


Tadd Dameron (1917-1965)


Roy Eldridge (1911-1989)


Milt Jackson (1923-1999)


Charlie Christian (1916-1942)


Grant Green (1935-1979)


Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)


Little Jimmy Scott (1925-2014)


Blue Mitchell (1930-1979)


Booker Ervin (1930-1970)


Lucky Thompson (1924-2005)


Melba Liston (1926-1999)


Kenny Clarke (1914-1985)


Leontyne Price (b. February 10, 1927)


Jimmy Lyons (1933-1986)


Patrice Rushen (b. September 30, 1954)


Elvin Jones (1927-2004)


Gary Bartz (b. September 26, 1940)


Hale Smith (1925-2009)


Benny Carter (1907-2003)


Benny Golson (b. January 25, 1929)


Benny Bailey (1925-2005)


Skip James (1902-1969)


Richard Davis (b. April 15, 1930)


Jaki Byard (1922-1999)


Charles Lloyd (b. March 15, 1938)


Chico Hamilton (1921-2013)


Johnny Hodges (1906-1070)


Leadbelly (1888-1949) 


Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)


Don Byas (1912-1972)


Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952)


Jimmy Lunceford (1902-1947)


King Oliver (1885-1938)


WAR  (1969-Present)


Gigi Gryce (1925-1983)


Clark Terry (1920-2015)


Branford Marsalis (b. August 26, 1960)


Art Farmer (1928-1999) 


Fats Navarro (1923-1950)


Billy Higgins (1936-2001)


Hank Mobley (1930-1986)


Raphael Saadiq (b. May 14, 1966)


India.Arie (b. October 3, 1975)


John Clayton (b. August 20, 1952) 


Marcus Miller (b. June 14, 1959)


James P. Johnson (1894-1955)


Sullivan Fortner (b. December 29, 1986)


Joel Ross (b. 1996)


Horace Tapscott (1934-1999) 


Billy Hart (b. November 29, 1940)


Marc Cary (b. January 29, 1967)


Eddie Henderson (b. October 26, 1940)


Cecil McBee (b. May 19, 1935)


Makaya McCraven (b. October 19, 1983)


Frank Morgan (1933-2007)


Rashied Ali (1933-2009)


Don Redman (1900-1964)


Idris Muhammad (1939-2014)


Brandee Younger (b. July 1, 1983)


Chris Dave (b. November 8, 1973)


Matana Roberts (b. 1975)


Nate Smith (b. December 14, 1974)


T. J. Anderson (b. August 17, 1928)


Keyon Harrold (b. November 18, 1980)


Nicole Mitchell (b. February 17, 1967)


Olly Wilson (1937-2018)


Kendrick Lamar (b. June 17, 1987)


Jonathan Bailey Holland (b. 1974)


Wendell Logan (1940-2010)


Donal Fox (b. July 17, 1952)


William Parker (b. January 10, 1952)


Jason Palmer (b. February 14, 1979)


Living Colour (1984-1995 + 2000-Present)


Charles Tolliver (b. March 6, 1942)


Henry Grimes (1935-2020)


Marcus Strickland (b. February 24, 1979)


Kendrick Scott (b. July 8, 1980)


Seth Parker Woods (b. 1984)


Kris Bowers (b. April 5, 1989)


Ulysses Owens, Jr. (b. December 6, 1982)


Steve Nelson (b. August 11, 1954)


Jeremy Pelt (b. November 4, 1976)


William Grant Still (1895-1978)


Amina Claudine Myers (b. March 21, 1942)


Karriem Riggins (b. August 25, 1975)


Etta Jones (1928-2001)


Yusef Lateef (1920-2013)


Christian Sands (b. May 22, 1989)


E. J. Strickland (b. February 24, 1979)


Taj Mahal (b. May 17, 1942)


Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)


Dom Flemons (August 30, 1982)


Camille Thurman (b. December 22, 1986)


Junius Paul (b. 1987) 


James Brandon Lewis (b. 1987)


Mazz Swift (b. 1975)


Warren Wolf (b. November 10, 1979)


Victor Gould (b. 1980)


Sean Jones (b. May 29, 1978)


Jessie Montgomery (b. December 8, 1981)


Kamasi Washington (b. February 18, 1981)


Terrace Martin (b. December 28, 1978)


Florence Price (1887-1953)


Hugh Masekela  (1939-2018)


Alta Mist  (b. 1992)


Donald Harrison  (b. June 23, 1960)


Chico Freeman  (b. July 17, 1949)


Ben Williams  (b. December 28, 1984)


Missy Elliott  (b. July 1, 1971)


Shemekia Copeland  (b. April 10, 1979)


Von Freeman  (1923-2012)


David Baker  (1931-2016)


Ruthie Foster (February 10, 1964)


Victoria Spivey  (1906-1976)


Antonio Hart   (b. September 30, 1968)


Kandace Springs (b. January 17, 1989)


Jamison Ross  (b. November 12, 1987)


Jon Batiste  (b. November 11, 1986)


Mulgrew Miller  (1955-2013)


Valerie Coleman  (b. 1970)


Charnett Moffett  (b. June 10, 1967)


Amythyst Kiah  (b. December 11, 1986)


Johnathan Blake  (b.  July 1, 1976)


Audra McDonald  (b. July 3, 1970)


Immanuel Wilkins  (b. August 7, 1997)


Wycliffe Gordon  (b. May 29, 1967)


Freddie King  (1934-1976)


Doreen Ketchens  (October 3, 1966)


Terry Pollard  (1931-2009)


Morgan Guerin (b. 1998)


Kenny Kirkland  (1955-1998)


Stacy Dillard (b. 1975)


Charenee Wade  


Jamael Dean (b. 1998)


Bruce Harris  (b. September 5, 1979)


Benjamin Booker  (b. June 14, 1989)


Una Mae Carlisle (1915-1956)


Justin Brown (b. April 9, 1984) 


Tyler Mitchell (b. October 7, 1958)


Sonny Sharrock  (1940-1994)


Bennie Maupin (b. August 29, 1940)

Revolutionary Ensemble  (1970-1977)

Olu Dara  (b. January 2, 1941)

Walter Smith III  (b. September 24, 1980)

Bobby Watson  (b. August 23, 1953)

James Moody (1925-2010)

Ronald Shannon Jackson  (1940-2013)

Leyla McCalla  (b. October 3, 1985)

Russell Malone  (b. November 8, 1963)

John Handy (b. February 3, 1933)

Stanley Clarke  (b. June 30, 1951)

Charlie Rouse  (1924-1988)


Baikida Carroll  (b. January 15, 1947)

 

Billy Drummond  (b. June 15, 1959)

 

Bobby McFerrin  (b. March 11, 1950)

 

Albert King  (1923-1992)

 

Dean Dixon  (1915-1976)

 

Dorothy Donegan  (1922-1998)

 

Bobby Blue Bland  (1930-2013)

 

Clora Bryant  (1927-2019)

 

Carlos Simons  (b. 1986)

 

Valerie Capers  (b. May 24, 1935)


Charles McPherson  (b. July 24, 1939)


Paul Robeson  (1898-1976)


Isaiah Collier  (b. 1998)


Savannah Harris  (b. 1993)


Josh Evans  (b. 1985)


Orrin Evans  (b. May 28, 1975)


Nasheet Waits  (b. June 15, 1971)


Georgia Anne Muldrow  (b. September 30, 1983)





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Sound Projections


A sonic exploration and tonal analysis of contemporary creative music in a myriad of improvisational/composed settings, textures, and expressions.


Welcome to Sound Projections


I'm your host Kofi Natambu. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one we're living in) as well as that of the historical past. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. I'm also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture.

Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of 'Jazz', 'classical music', 'Blues', 'Rhythm and Blues', 'Rock 'n Roll', 'Pop', 'Funk', 'Hip Hop' etc. in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do creatively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be.

So please join me in this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities.