Moving on the Wires: MF DOOM and Company!

*Shaolin Jazz member 2-Tone Jones will be doing “Happy Hour of Doom” this Thursday night in Washington, D.C. For more info, click here. *Masta Ace, who recently teamed with MF Doom to do MA-DOOM : Son Of Yvonne, will be working with Okay Player to release content from the album and promote his future events. […]

Moving On the Wires: SHAOLIN JAZZ L!ve in DC

For those in the Washington, DC area today, Shaolin Jazz is doing their first musical performance tonight at the legendary Blues Alley. It is the first DJ-led performance at Blues Alley including DJ 2-Tone Jones, the co-creator of SHAOLIN JAZZ, his fellow band members of Sound of the City and special guest artists.. Their repertoire […]

Modern Griots: Gerald Watson, DJ 2-tone Jones and Shaolin Jazz

Yesterday, I wrote about the Festival of the Nw Black Imagination and one of the speakers was DJ 2-tone Jones. The idea for Jones and Watson’s project started with the graphic designer Logan Walters‘ project called, Wu-Note, in which he redesigned Wu-Tang Clan album covers as if they were original jazz Blue Note Records albums. […]