Jul 14, 2015 | Author, Blog
Gil Scott-Heron receiving the Lifetime achievement Grammy is entirely fitting and proper because his significance as an historic artist is indelible. He was truly brilliant as a pioneer in fusing scintillating spoken word poetry/rap with a powerful musical brew of...
Jul 14, 2015 | Author, Blog, Public Speaker
Stevie Wonder’s MLK speech, written by Don Mizell, delivered on Jan 15, 1981 at the rally/march in Washington, DC Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Sunday, February 22, 1981 January 15, 1981: Washington, D.C. Rally/March where Stevie officially...
Jul 17, 2011 | Author, Blog
A Conversation with Dr. Don Mizell After sharing the worldwide concern about the health of one of our greatest artists – Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul – I could not believe that a mere eight months later, the lady with whom I was conducting a special BRE...
Jun 14, 2010 | Author, Blog
by Don Mizell* Azar Lawrence’s Mystic Journey taps into the deep wellspring of Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ period when the music was modern modal but the conceptual framework was evocative of a kind of ‘spiritual’-oriented...
