Welcome to Philadelphia Jazz Project
PhillyCAM Sessions-VSOR On TV
Nov 4, 2015
During the summer of 2015, Philadelphia Jazz Project, Turtle Studios and PhillyCAM partnered to create a series of one time special live studio recordings with some of Philadelphia's most intriguing elder performers. The program, which airs on Sunday Nights at 7pm this Fall is entitled, PJP Presents: PhillyCAM Sessions - Very Special One Time Recording at Turtle Studios. The series features artists like Blues/Roots multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Papa Ed Stokes & Tom Lowery as Kuni Bi, Jazz singer, Pearl Williams, and avant-garde Jazz pianist, Raymond A. King.
The series airs on Sundays at 7pm and will feature:
November 9th - Pearl Williams
November 16th - Papa Ed Stokes
November 23rd - Pearl Williams
November 30th - Papa Ed Stokes
*Raymond A. King will run as an hour long program from 7:30-8:30pm each week.
Watch PhillyCAM on Comcast Cable channels 66/966 or Verizon Fios channels 29/30 in Philadelphia.
View PhillyCAM Programming Online
About The Artists:
Papa Ed Stokes is a lifelong student of music who plays over a dozen instruments. In describing him at work, the Center City Quarterly says, "You will hear great sounds coming from the most interesting instruments, everything from a mouth bow said to be oldest stringed instrument played by man to a diddley bow, the first stringed instrument of Muddy Waters and other Delta Blues men."
In describing jazz singer, Pearl Williams, who started as a pianist and childhood friend and bandmate of pianist McCoy Tyner; Philadelphia's JazzBridge says, "Artists like Pearl Williams, a living legend, are just not made any longer, and her every appearance is a unique and very special event."
Described by the Northampton Center for the Arts as "simply the best pianist you have never heard of," Raymond A. King fits perfectly into the long Philadelphia tradition of the musician's musician.
The series airs on Sundays at 7pm and will feature:
November 9th - Pearl Williams
November 16th - Papa Ed Stokes
November 23rd - Pearl Williams
November 30th - Papa Ed Stokes
*Raymond A. King will run as an hour long program from 7:30-8:30pm each week.
Watch PhillyCAM on Comcast Cable channels 66/966 or Verizon Fios channels 29/30 in Philadelphia.
View PhillyCAM Programming Online
