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Motema
Motéma Music has been promoting recording artists of power and distinction since 2003. Founded by arts patrons and music professionals in the San Francisco Bay area and now based in Harlem, NYC, the label is home to a growing roster of recordings by award-winning artists such as Rufus Reid, Lynne Arriale, Marc Cary and Geri Allen. Led by producer, performer and entrepreneur Jana Herzen, and a dedicated team of veteran and new music industry professionals, Motéma provides career development, creative promotion and marketing support to composer-performers who are masters at their craft and who have a unique and positive musical voice to share with the world. Motéma also collaborates with corporations and nonprofit organizations to create music related publicity and fund raising opportunities.
Discography
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Beyond Now Donny McCaslin
Format: CD
14/10/2016
Deeply influenced by the extraordinary experience of collaborating with David Bowie on his final release, 'Blackstar', Donny McCaslin steps forward wi… -
Countdown Joey Alexander
Format: CD
16/09/2016
The highly-anticipated sophomore album by twice Grammy-nominated piano prodigy Joey Alexander, showcases his remarkable development as a contemporary… -
What We Bring Ben Wendel
Format: CD
09/09/2016
"A naturally inquisitive musician whose credentials branch out beyond jazz..." - The New York Times. GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist and co-leader of… -
Celebrating Elvin Jones Will Calhoun
Format: CD
26/08/2016
Although he is best known as the hard-driving, groove-oriented drummer for the pioneering rock group Living Colour, Will Calhoun has played in a stagg… -
Habana Dreams The Pedrito Martinez…
Format: CD
10/06/2016
The Pedrito Martinez Group follows up their GRAMMY nominated debut with the release of 'Habana Dreams', pushing forward the group's cutting-edge sound… -
Sound Of Red René Marie
Format: CD
13/05/2016
GRAMMY nominated René Marie takes us to that space on Sound of Red, her first album of all-original material. Set for release via Motema / MustHaveJa… -
Perfection Murray, Allen &…
Format: CD
13/05/2016
This much-anticipated recording debut of this new jazz supergroup (comprised of reedman David Murray, pianist Geri Allen and drummer Terri Lyne Carrin… -
Ala Ta Awa Sangho
Format: CD
01/04/2016
Multi-talented Malian singer/songwriter Awa Sangho is a charismatic new solo star on the world music scene. After singing with Salif Keita, Ali Fark… -
Work Songs Jaimeo Brown Transce…
Format: CD
12/02/2016
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence's 'Work Songs' resurrects stories of workers and prisoners worldwide in a call to action during tense times in America, on… -
What's New? - Reimagining… Oran Etkin
Format: CD
06/11/2015
Acclaimed bandleader, composer and clarinettist Oran Etkin pays a distinctly modern homage to the "King of Swing", Benny Goodman, on the eve of the 30… -
Alegria De Viver Leny Andrade & R…
Format: CD
06/11/2015
The first recording by legendary Brazilian vocalist Leny Andrade in ten years, containing fourteen classic songs from bossa nova to MPB. She has been… -
Cuba: The Conversation Continu… Arturo O'Farril…
Format: CD
02/10/2015
Recorded in Havana only days before the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States, Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestr…
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