Wayman Tisdale

Tisdale launched his music career with Power Forward in 1995 on the Motown Label. Primarily a bass player, he recorded eight albums, with the 2001 release Face to Face climbing to No. 1 on Billboard's contemporary jazz chart.[9] He was awarded the Legacy Tribute Award by the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2002. In an ESPN internet chat Tisdale said his musical influences included the funk bands of the 1970s.[10]His most recent release, Rebound, was written and released after he was diagnosed with cancer

Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930, Fort Worth, Texas)[1][2][3] is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s. Coleman's timbre is easily recognized: his keening, crying sound draws heavily on blues music. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007Pulitzer Prize for music.

Busi Mhlongo Urban Zulu

When we first started working on these awesome songs penned by Themba, Spectre and Busi, the style was recognisably traditional maskanda. Over the months of work, the maskanda in this album metamorphosed, deepened, widened and finally has come to represent the contemporary Zulu Nation's truest form of expression, with all the agony, the ecstacy, the pain and sorrow, the trials and ironies of life in the modern South Afrika.This is the first time maskanda has been expressed by a Zulu woman, and who better than Busi, one of the great voices of Afrika. A truly astonishing performer on the stage and in the studio, her original creativity as expressed here represents a quantum leap in South Afrikan music. This is maskanda for the millennium. Listen and be humbled. Will Mowat (Producer) TRACK LIST 1. YEHLISAN'UMOYA MA-AFRIKA (Afrikan Nation, Calm!)2. YAPHELI'MALI YAMI (My Money Is Gone)3. WE BABA OMNCANE (If You Don't Obey Your Parents)4. UKUTHULA (Live In Peace)5. YISE WABANT'A BAMI (Father Of My Children)6. UGANGA NGE NGANE (You're Playing Around With This Child)7. NGADLALWA YINDODA (He's Toying With Me)8. NGUYE LO (He's The One)9. ZITHIN'IZIZWE (What Are People Saying About Us?) 10. AWUKHO UMUZI ONGENA KUKHULUMA KWAWO (There Are Problems In Every Home) 11. OXAMU (Crocodile)

Joyous Celebration 8

The past ten years have been a long and winding road. We have received tremendous support across the country and God’s Mercy and Grace over the years is the reason we are where we are today, TEN YEARS LATER.The Joyous concept has always been enigmatic to a lot of people because of its format. We have been referred to as a Gospel group or Gospel Choir. We prefer to be referred to as a Gospel Project or a Gospel Concept.The past ten years have been a long and winding road. We have received tremendous support across the country and God’s Mercy and Grace over the years is the reason we are where we are today, TEN YEARS LATER. The Joyous concept has always been enigmatic to a lot of people because of its format. We have been referred to as a Gospel group or Gospel Choir. We prefer to be referred to as a Gospel Project or a Gospel Concept.