<p>Join us as we celebrate the history and legacy of black music this month.</p>
<p>Join us as we celebrate the history and legacy of black music this month.</p>
<p>Join us as we celebrate the history and legacy of black music this month.</p>
Click here to see Teena Marie's In Studio Jam. — Before her untimely death at the age of 54 two years ago, Teena Marie was hailed as a legend. The petite white woman made her own way in the world of black music, established blue-eyed soul as her own personal genre. Marie was a California […]
<p>Join us as we celebrate the history and legacy of black music this month.</p>
This month, we celebrate black music and we do so today with the first of our Top Tens. For this one, we’ve selected the 10 hottest songs you’re most likely to hear at any backyard barbeque you go to this summer, went to last summer or will go to in any summer to come. These […]
Dear Prince: I know that as a Jehovah’s Witness you probably no longer celebrate birthdays, but I hope you don’t mind if your fans, of which I am certainly one, celebrate for and with you on your 54th birthday. I’m sure it must be difficult to walk around when you have people falling out and […]
<p>Join us as we celebrate the history and legacy of black music this month.</p>
There was a gentleman from Oklahoma City that fans of swing, jazz and blues would come to know as “Mister Five by Five” and his name was Jimmy Rushing. A child of musicians, Rushing was practically born on the stage with his mother, who was a singer, and his father, a horn blowing piano player […]
<p>Think of a summer day. Now think of the song “Summertime” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince or the song “Hot Fun In the Summertime” by Sly and the Family Stone. Isn’t there something about those songs that makes a great summer day even better? That’s the essence of black music.</p>
When the “Queen of Disco” Donna Summer died Thursday, adoring fans and celebrities who had worked with her were stunned to find out she had been battling lung cancer for 10 months. Only a close circle of friends and family knew the singer was dealing with the illness. Her good friend Ceila Kasha said Summer’s […]
I’ve always liked and respected President Jimmy Carter —and the fact that he designated June Black Music Month back in 1979 is just one of many reasons. This morning, TJMS producers have asked us to take a look at music that makes us feel better, and if you were around back in 1979 (or just […]
