The Quiet Storm is very pleased to present the stellar bassist, singer & songwriter, Tal Wilkenfeld, and the music video for her song titled Killing Me, from her album titled Love Remains. The music video was directed by Marielle Tepper.
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Tal Wilkenfeld - Killing Me (Official Music Video)
The Quiet Storm is very pleased to present H.E.R. and the music video for her song titled Damage.
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The Quiet Storm is very proud to present Prince, featuring the great Angie Stone, and the music video to Prince's song titled U Make My Sun Shine, originally from his 2004 album titled The Chocolate Invasion, and also released on the second posthumous compilation album by Prince and NPG Records, in association with Legacy Recordings.
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Prince - U Make My Sun Shine (featuring Angie Stone)
The Quiet Storm is pleased to present Sydney Ranee' and the music video for her groovin' song titled 7, which is the second single from her EP titled "You Could". The music video was directed and edited by Noah Ruderma.
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The Quiet StormMusic TV presents Moonchild, a musical group consisting of Amber Navran, Andris Mattson, and Max Bryk. Just below is the music video for their song titled The List, which is track #6 from their album titled Voyager. The video was directed by Evan Colten and filmed at Antelope Acres Market in Lancaster, California.
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Starring: Maasai Godwin & Connor Foster
Director: Evan Colten
Director of Photography: Jack Alexander Jr.
Producer: Robert Upchurch, Evan Colten
1st Asst. Director: Max Cunningham
Sound Designer: Galen McCaw
Production Designer: Isabelle Smith
Dance Choreographer: Cristina McKeever
Colorist: Gabe Sanchez
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Here is The Quiet Storm quintessentially... the late night version. The video is by the artist known as Junglepussy to her song titled Somebody. The video was directed and edited by Erin Grant with additional productions credits listed below.
Production Credits: Somebody
Director / Editor: Erin Grant
Director of Photography: Max Lakner
Camera Assistant: Sam Wood
Makeup Artist: Raisa Thomas
Hair Stylist: Yves Hair Bureau
Fashion Stylist: Shayna McHayle
GFX / Color: Alex Gvojic
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This is the first time we've featured rap here. It's infused with horns and a thick jazzy funk that is very Quiet Storm. The artist from Ghana known as Blitz The Ambassador with stellar vocal support from a wonderful artist named Nneka originally from Lagos Nigeria. Both artists are so well traveled they should be considered citizens of the world.
The Quiet Storm is pleased to present Lianne La Havas and her very Quiet Storm song titled Don't Wake Me Up, from her album titled Is Your Love Big Enough.
Lianne La Havas - Don't Wake Me Up
Just below is a particularly nice scaled down version of the song live, just Lianne and her guitar, while she appeared in Los Angeles a few years ago.
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Lianne La Havas - Don't Wake Me Up (Acoustic - Live in LA)
And, yet another beautiful live take (perhaps our favorite) of the song with her full band. The video was shot by a fan at the Village Underground in London on July 17 2012 with a single hand-held camera and no editing. The audio is nice :)
Lianne La Havas - Don't Wake Me Up (Live at the Village Underground)
The stunning bright eyed songwriter, pianist and vocalist Alex Nester is a lady who is the real Quiet Storm deal.
She just finished this live studio recording the old school way: with real musicians simultaneously in one take. There were only a few follow up overdubs of guitar, the Hammond keyboard/organ and the background vocal tracks which Alex sang herself.
This song, titled With You, is an original she wrote and a very personal heartfelt tribute song to her grandparents Mel & Frieda as her tight-knit family was going through most difficult times together.
Alex Nester - With You (Mel & Frieda's Song)
If you loved it, you might want to hear the minimalist, yet stellar live piano/vocal video of With You that Alex originally recorded and we featured on MusicLoad.Com in April 2015. Please click here to see that video.
Prior to the above recording making onto this page, in March of 2015, our sister site MusicTelevision.Com featured a music video to another one of Alex's excellent original songs titled Show A Little Love. Please click here to see that video.
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Here is some jazz, not the smooth kind, but the burning kind full of cuban beats and syncopated soaring horn arrangements. This perfectly captured live recording is of cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto and friends Manuel Valera, Charles Flores, Peter Apfelbaum, Felipe Lamoglia and Avishai Cohen as they perform at the Modern Drummer Festival back in 2008. They engage in a lot of foreplay building the momentum before the let out their big roar. mlv
Dafnis Prieto - EMERGENCY CALL
Dafnis recently released a new album titled Triangles and Squares. Read Ben Ratliff's New York Times review here. If you like real jazz, you are likely to love this.
The drum known as the tabla can deliver one of those quintessential Quiet Storm sounds if in the right hands. Just below is a recording by renowned tabla player Talvin Singh that fits into the Quiet Storm quite nicely. The video was directed by Rob Howard. Turn it up and enjoy!
Here is one of those ultimate Quiet Storm songs by the artist Sly Johnson out of France, who is not to be confused with another great and similarly named Syl Johnson. We learned about Sly by way of Ayo, who has been featured on our sister sites MusicTelevision.Com and MusicLoad many times. The very sweet backing and lead female vocals on this song titled I'm Calling You are Ayo's. Enjoy!
Sly Johnson - I'm Calling You
And, here is one more of Sly Johnson in another collaboration, live in concert. Sly acts as a human beat box with a sound that hints of early Al Jarreau as he scats, in this very funky jazz jam session.
Here are some real players going at it live on stage in a way that captures the essence of The Quiet Storm sound that we are attempting to articulate here. The Woody Browns Project delivers it in a hard edged contemporary jazz way. The live recording is definitely not studio, it's hot and rough, but the underlying sound of the group, their changes, their solos and the realness makes it Quiet Storm worthy.
Filmed in September 1979 at Santa Barbara County Bowl, this concert was part of Joni Mitchell's Mingus Tour. Her band included the late great Jaco Pastorius on bass who really gave the band it's sound along Pat Metheny on guitar, Don Alias on drums, Lyle Mays on keyboards and Michael Brecker on saxophone.
* The concert footage itself starts at the 2 minute 32 second point, the old film clips are just the intro with the band in the background.
Joni Mitchell and Friends Live - Shadows and Light
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With her deep strong powerful voice and her own New Zealand soul sound, Hollie Smith is a Quiet Storm when she sings. Her main instrument is piano, most often a Fender Rhodes. She has a special way or thing about how she simultaneously sings and handles the keys picking the right chord voicings. She is especially good playing with a band, live.
The video below is not live, but a conceptual video to a studio track to her song titled Philosophy of Soul.
Hollie Smith - Philosophy of Soul (Official Music Video_
One of the ultimate Quiet Storm songs ever is of Carlos Santana performing the iconic classic song titled Black Magic Woman.
The song was originally written by Peter Green and it was first used by Fleetwood Mac as single in 1968. However, in 1970, Carlos Santana was the first to take the song to "hit" status.
There are numerous live filmed recordings of Carlos Santana and his fabulous band performing Black Magic Woman floating around. The version just below was filmed in 1971 for German TV's Beat-Club, which happened to be the first German TV program that focused upon pop and rock music from the U.S. and Britain. The second video that follows, is a much more recent live take of the song, with writer Peter Green sitting in.
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Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman
Here is the most recent "Official Live Video" of Black Magic Woman.
Trixie Whitley and her band - Photo by Anton Coene
Falling fresh into The Quiet Storm format is artist Trixie Whitley and her song titled "Silent Rebel Pt. 2", which is track #5 off her most recent album titled Fourth Corner. It's hard to pigeon hole Whitley's music into any particular genre, she is all over the map in terms of so many sub genres of rock, soul, blues, and jazz.
She hangs with one fantastic photographer in particular, Anton Coene, who has been shooting a majority of her music videos as well as candid live films of Trixie recording songs from Fourth Corner while in the studio, like this song that is officially Quiet Storm... Buy the entire song and/or record here if you like it!
A few years before Norah Jones began to rise to fame on her own, Jones was the vocalist in a band called Lazslo with guitarist Jerome Covington, Aaron Crouch on keyboard, vibraphone & samples, Marc Rogers on electric bass and Bill Campbell on drums.
Before I knew who Norah Jones was, I had originally found this song on MP3.Com when MP3.Com was filled with what seemed like millions of bands I'd never heard. It was one of the best places ever to discover new talent by simply digging through songs.
Finding this song was like finding that proverbial needle in a haystack. Loved it right away, and it has stayed on my personal music playlist for many years. Only recently, after digging around, was I able to figure out that the act featured Norah Jones and friends. Enjoy!
Lazslo (featuring Norah Jones) - performing the song Butterflies