A GIFT - This video made by Len Morris, founder of Media Voices For Children is set to music from Geri Allen's Christmas Album, A CHILD IS BORN. Please take a moment to watch this beautiful collaboration for a great cause. 

Gregory Porter performed "Illusion" from his Grammy Nominated debut album Water on Later With Jools Holland. Watch the performance.

Taste the 'exhilaration' of jazz guitarist JC Stylles and his Organ Trio here.

Motema Receives Two Grammy Nominations!

Motéma is proud and excited to announce that two of our albums have received nominations for the 54th Annual Grammy® Awards! A big congratulations to Roseanna Vitro: Best Jazz Vocal Album nominee for The Music Of Randy Newman and Monty Alexander: Best Reggae Album nominee for Harlem-Kingston Express Live!

 

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Motéma is working with children's rights organization Media Voices For Children to develop a series of film and music collaborations in an effort to raise awareness and funds for this fine cause. "A Gift" is the first video in this series, featuring children along the roadside in rural Kenya receiving lollipops. The film is set to Allen's "A Christmas Melody" from the album A Child Is Born.

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January 26th Gregory Porter, Bruckner Hauss

 

January 29th Gregory Porter, Albright Knox Art 

 

February 4th  Gregory Porter, Kennedy Center

 

February 4th Oran Etkin, BAM 

 

February 4th Randy Weston, Montgomery Community College 

 

February 8th Rene Marie, Modlin Performing Arts Center 

 

February 12th Rene Marie, Frostburg University

 

February 14th - 19th Rene Marie,  Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club

 

February 15th Ellio Villafranca and Arturo Stable, CD Release Party at Brooklyn Public Library