News & Updates — Richmond

POSTER by Tess Gadwa for artmeetscode.com We're two amazing parties in!! And more to come! Check out our tour schedule for Spring: Peace & Rhythm Spring 2018 Tour continues... May 11 Washington DC Safari DC Restaurant & Lounge Details: Funky Tropical Party: Leon City Sounds and Peace & Rhythm DJs with Leon City Sounds May 12 Richmond VA The HofGarden details: Skyyline with special guests Peace & Rhythm Records! with BODY TALK May 13 Richmond VA Steady Sounds with Armando Muñoz details: Peace & Rhythm Records In-Store at Steady Sounds May 14 Chapel Hill NC Nightlight Bar & Club details:...

Here's a birthday nod to the late Tom Cora, improvising cellist of out-rock, free-jazz, underground experimental and avant-garde styles. He modified and prepared his cello, often playing it violently like a guitar and through loud amplification. From Richmond, Virginia, he was originally a drummer before moving to jazz guitar in the DC area. Picking up the cello in college, he studied with Karl Berger and moved to NYC in '79. He quickly joined the rising Downtown avant-garde/improv scene, touring with Eugene Chadbourne and forming Curlew with George Cartwright & Bill Laswell and others. In '82 he formed the improvising duo...

Happy birthday to the underrated bop pianist Walter Davis Jr. Lifelong close friends with Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, he was a session pianist of great soulful taste. From Richmond VA, he played as a teenager with Babs Gonzales and got a big gig at the Apollo with Charlie Parker in '49, quitting high school to go on the road with him. He moved to NYC in '50 and made his first recordings with the Max Roach group. He toured South America & the Middle East with Gillespie in '56, and would play with Diz off and on...

Peace & Rhythm's DJ Studebaker Hawk is back in Richmond this Saturday, throwing down at the Body Talk party at Continental Divide, 10pm-2am. Body Talk are a Richmond-based DJ collective focused on playing the best in boogie-funk, soul, disco, go-go and electro dance music. 2501 W Main St, Richmond VA 23220 https://bodytalkrva.tumblr.com/ http://www.eatdivide.com/

Peace & Rhythm and C.A.M.P.O.S. team up to present the world premiere of C.A.M.P.O.S.'s new video for "My Bird Has Many Voices" (Mother's Mix). This is the latest of a string of videos to songs off of the Miracles & Criminals 2xLP, available now direct from Peace & Rhythm or wholesale from Forced Exposure distribution. The video was again created by Croaker Norge. (If you would like to see the previous videos made for the album, click here, here and here. Purchase the album direct from our webshop. "My Bird...": Last month, we were thrilled to see the inclusion of...