Grandmaster Flash has some grand plans for the near future. I was reading on his website that he recently penned his memoirs with David Ritz and will release them as a book this year. Ritz is responsible for writing the memoirs of Ray Charles and Marvin Gaye and now The Message: The Grandmaster Flash Story. Meanwhile the Flash has been toiling away in the studio, putting soul into stereo, and DJing his favorite tunes on his weekly Sirius Radio show - The FlashMash - on Saturday nights. His studio sessions will be mixed down and mastered to become a new album: The Bridge which will be released on Adrenaline Entertainment sometime in 2008. ([More →])

The same day that Joni Mitchell releases her next album, Shine on Hear Music (the Starbucks label), Herbie Hancock will release his new album, River: The Joni Letters on Verve. Hancock’s new album features illustrious guests Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, with accompaniment from Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta and Lionel Loueke! Snap! ([More →])