Gloria Gaskins - Lord Is Satisfying - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Gatefold. On her new album Sun Without the Heat, McCalla brings more playfulness and joy than she has on previous records when she speaks to the concerns that have shaped her career, mainly including an ethos in which you must look back at lost and erased histories before you can embrace a forward vision of Afrofuturism and the importance of music making to heal and forge relationships across differences. Across Sun Without the Heat's ten tracks, she achieves this with music that combines jazz, Haitian Twoubadou, American blues, folk and Brazilian Tropicalismo.Born in New York City to Haitian emigrants and activists, McCalla possesses a stunning mastery of the cello, tenor banjo and guitar. A founding member of Our Native Daughters alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Amysthyst Kiah and Allison Russell and an alumna of Grammy award-winning band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, McCalla has also received considerable praise and attention for her solo works, including 2014's Vari-Colored Songs A Tribute to Langston Hughes, which prompted the New York Times to rave that Inchher voice is disarmingly natural, and her settings are elegantly succinctInch and 2022's Breaking The Thermometer (4/5 review from The Guardian).Lyrically on Sun Without the Heat, McCalla draws from the writings of Black feminist Afrofuturist thinkers Octavia Butler, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Adrienne Maree Brown, among others, with frequent themes being grief, connection and motherhood. Like these authors, McCalla is thinking hard about collaboration as a means of creative expression, community thinking, personal salvation, and rectifying social injustice. InchThe stories we've been told about ourselves and the stories that we have to learn to undo the stories we've been told,Inch she explains.InchSometimes these are painful stories to tell. This is especially vivid in the title song, InchSun Without the Heat.Inc

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In the kaleidoscopic world of jazz and soul, few voices shine brighter than Gloria Lynne's. By 1974, Lynne wasn't just a singer - she was a force of nature, weaving the precision of jazz with the raw, heart-on-sleeve intensity of soul and pop. Born and raised in Harlem, she carried the neighborhood's spirit with her, from gospel choirs to the Apollo stage, where a teenage talent show win set her on a path to stardom. Her voice, smooth as velvet and fierce as a tempest, carved out a space that was entirely her own in the male-dominated world of jazz. This album is evidence of that. It captures the heart of a remarkable artist. A greatest hits snapshot of a woman who turned jazz into her personal playground while seamlessly crossing over into pop without ever losing sight of her roots. This album is more than a collection of songs; it's a vivid portrait of an artist who built her career on grit, grace, and a relentless refusal to be confined by labels. Each track is a testament to Lynne's ability to infuse standards with her own emotional depth and to transform pop melodies into deeply personal statements.