While I was in high school, and the first years after that, I was a huge fan of soul & jazz. I still played the saxophone and just loved improvising on stage.
This slightly went away while the years in University passed by. I became more interested in house, techno and other electronic music. The last few years however my interest and love for soul and jazz returned. I started listening to artist like Otis Reading, Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield
And now, in the 21st century, there is a new soul hero. A young guy from LA, California. Andrew "Mayer" Cohen who grew up in the "Hawthorn" street in Michigan and now is a singer, songwriter, producer, audio engineer, DJ, rapper and multi-instrumentalist. That's what I like... "Just go for it and learn all the skills you want to learn". I saw him on Lowlands this year and his performance was one of the best of that weekend. With his soul he knew how to make the people dance. And that's what me and my friends did.
This single "The Walk" has just been released (August 2011) and appears on his album "How Do You Do" that has just been released. It is a classic already, great voice, nice horn section, nice backing singers. It perfectly fits in my "classic soul" list that I created in spotify. Damn. I Like. Enjoy your saturday.
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