Photo Credit: Rodji Munoz
(LOS ANGELES, CA)
APRIL 2, 2019 - Watch Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles and multi-talented Gospel artist B.Slade perform an extended live edition of the Marvin Gaye classic "Inner City Blues" at Jammcard's invite-only JammJam event in Los Angeles.
WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE:
A former member of the Brooklyn-based jazz ensemble Snarky Puppy, Cory Henry is known for delivering almost two decades of genre-bending music. Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles recently released album Art of Love, blending blues, soul, R&B, Afrobeat, Gospel, and Jazz, blurring genres and continuing to upend expectations.
Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles stepped out in full force with their eclectic sound alongside Gospel legend, B.Slade at a recent JammJam, entertaining a packed room of the industry's finest musicians. Lasting over ten minutes, this emotional and collaborative performance seeks to unify its audience with aspirational messaging appropriate and necessary for the current social climate.
(from 10:09 on the video)
We all need more grace
Lord please help me make it back home safely to my family tonight
Lord please help me I don't really wanna die
I don't wanna be another hashtag I don't wanna die.
Blood and crime spreading on the streets
People can't find enough to eat
Now our kids can't go out and play
That's the state of the world today
Drugs and crime spreading on our streets
People can't find enough to eat
Our kids can't go out and play
That's the state of the world, but we're gonna come together right now
Everybody come together. Right now.
(12:22)
We're gonna come together
Right now
It don't matter what your color is
Right now
We all bleed the same blood
Right now
If I see you down, then I'm gonna lift you back up.
"This was a life changing moment for me. Having so many people I look up to, with some of my favorite musicians ever, in one room, coming together and soaking in this music, all for the love of music and community." Jammcard founder and musician, Elmo Lovano, reflects. "Music seeps out of Cory effortlessly. It's an incredible thing to witness, and I feel this video has actually captured that."
ABOUT JAMMCARD AND JAMMJAM:
At its core, Jammcard connects the professional music community by way of an invite-only, app based social network for vetted pros. Jammcard also taps its exclusive members for high-level content and performance opportunities to promote their members' careers and highlight their unparalleled talents. The JammJam is an intimate live event series, curated by Jammcard, of unrehearsed, collaborative performances with the world's leading musicians. Previous JammJams include takeovers of Tower Records and Capitol Records, and performances by Ty Dolla $ign, Terrace Martin, Cory Henry, Judith Hill, Kamasi Washington and Robin Thicke, amongst countless others. Jammcard is also responsible for quickly assembling live bands for some of today's biggest acts, such as Gwen Stefani, Zedd, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and Grace VanderWaal.
Jammcard recently won the prestigious W3 Gold Award in Social Media and has earned the investment of cultural icon, Quincy Jones.
ABOUT
CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES:
Cory Henry may be best known for his role in Snarky Puppy, the instrumental jazz-pop orchestra hailed by Rolling Stone as "one of the more versatile groups on the planet right now." At six, he made his debut at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, and at nineteen, he joined the touring band of jazz icon Kenny Garrett. Since then, he's toured or recorded with everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Roots to P. Diddy and Yolanda Adams in addition to cracking the Top 10 on Billboard's Jazz charts with a pair of solo albums. NPR called him "a master" and said his "musical charisma is a match for a nearly 400 pound organ," while Keyboard Magazine dubbed his playing "soulful, church-y, playful, restrained, and virtuosic," and The Boston Globe raved that "if anyone's going to preach the gospel of the Hammond organ, it should be Cory Henry." While his keyboard playing often draws comparisons to Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock, Henry's singing reveals a whole different side of his musical personality, one that synthesizes everything from Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye to Stevie Wonder and Prince.
Henry pieced together The Funk Apostles' lineup out of players he met on the road over the years, and each member of the band is an all-star in their own right. Guitarist Adam Agati, who co-wrote the Art of Love's lyrics with Henry, has worked with everyone from Booker T. Jones to Ludacris, while bassist Sharay Reed has performed with Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Chakha Khan, and more. Henry met drummer TaRon Lockett while he was playing with Snarky Puppy, but he's performed with some of the biggest names in R&B including Erykah Badu and Montell Jordan, and keyboardist Nick Semrad's credits include Miss Lauryn Hill, Bilal, and Gabriel Garzon-Montano.
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CONTACTS:
JAMMCARD:
BIG HASSLE MEDIA
Jim Merlis
Cory Councill
CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES MANAGEMENT
CULTURE COLLECTIVE
Jonathan Azu
