Donuts

DonutsDonuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full length release, and has since became a classic hip hop album, one of the defining works of the artist's life. Completed during a year in which J Dilla spent mostly in a hospital bed at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when, only three days after it's release, February 10, 2006, the artist passed away, losing

Kendrick Lamar DAMN

MF Doom and Madlib

and full of creative passion

It was a statement about injustice and suffering in the United States

Marcos Valle’s career started with the end of bossa nova

It is also the final album that features lead guitarist Lincoln Parish

Valle impressed Shaheed Muhammad with his professionalism and confidence in this new environment with limited time to capture the music: “Marcos is so focused on getting it right

Modern Lovers 88 has been praised by AllMusic as “Quite rocking

Broken Equipment was inspired by a book club

Johnny Dover on bass clarinet

his first album in 5 years and the follow-up to his Blue Note debut

They weren't quite singing along with 'Cold-Blooded Old Times' yet -that's a happy post-millennial development- but there was a lot of excitement in the air back in those final old-century days