It was only this summer when the mighty TEMPTATIONS announced that they’d recruited a new member. For some time the veteran group had operated as a quartet, but in June they announced the addition of  Mario Corbino as lead singer, restoring the classic five piece line up. US sources tell us that for a month or so now, the band have once again been working as a foursome – preparing […]

Listeners to Jazz FM and the more savvy, more eclectic jazz and soul stations might well have come across a lovely, insidious little tune, ‘Parts Of Me’ credited to POETIC LEESTAR. The track defies categorization. It’s a spoken word piece that rides a neo-soul groove with a jazzy undertow but it’s insistent and hypnotic with a very special atmospheric – one those (rare) tunes that just grabs at you! Poetic […]

‘Mr Midnight’ was one of the key tracks on RAHEEM DEVAUGHN’S ‘What A Time To Be in Love’ album; indeed it was released as a focus single.  Now, as is the modern way, the track wins remix status courtesy of BEE BOY$OUL (Bee Boy-Soul) who calls the remix (appropriately) the “Winter” mix. We’re told that this new mix comes from a bigger DeVaughn/Bee Boy collaboration – ‘Raheem DeVaughn presents Bee […]