12/3/25 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: M.O.P Performing Ante Up/Busta Rhymes Live At 1st Annual Brooklyn Day

M.O.P performing ANTE UP with Busta Rhymes and more live at  The 1st Annual Busta Rhymes Brooklyn Day – The Blessing Don’t Stop Event. Continue reading

11/1/25 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Tems – Tiny Desk Concert

Tiny Desk is giving the ladies their flowers (Tems). We’re releasing nine Tiny Desk Concerts from Black women artists, from veterans who’ve paved the way for what we hear today in Black music, to those who are carving out their own paths.
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10/25/25 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Prince and 3rd Eye Girl – Crazy 2 Cool

 

Crazy 2 Cool  is the name of a twenty-one minute medley performed by Prince and 3rd Eye Girl during their concert at Le Zénith in Paris on June 1, 2014.The medley was part of the Hit And Run Part II Tour.

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10/18/25 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: D’Angelo – Live at BET Awards 2012

D’Angelo performs “Untitled” and “Sugah Daddy” at the 2012 BET Awards. Continue reading

10/12/25 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Dianne Reeves with Romero Lubambo Live In NYC

Brazilian guitar wizard Romero Lubambo will join Dianne Reeves to perform songs from their new duo album. Trinity presents Jazz Icons in collaboration with Jazz House Kids, to showcase some of the most prolific and influential artists in music history. Continue reading

10/11/25 SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Samara Joy – Live at North Sea Jazz 2025

Samara Joy performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival on July 12, 2025. She returned to the Rotterdam festival after a acclaimed performance in 2023. Continue reading

8/17/25 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT:  Art Farmer and Benny Golson Jazztet – Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 1995

Jazztet was a jazz sextet, co-founded in 1959 by trumpeter Art Farmer and tenor saxophonist Benny Golson. In the first phase, the Jazztet lasted until 1962 and helped launch the careers of pianist McCoy Tyner and trombonist Grachan Moncur III.Farmer and Golson revived the group in 1982 and toured again. The Jazztet was “famous for its beautifully structured, precise but soulful pieces and a swinging style”. Continue reading

5/1/25 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Live In Concert)

I Want You is a song written by songwriters Leon Ware and Arthur T-Boy Ross and recorded and released as a single by Marvin Gaye. Released as a single in 1976 on the Tamla label, the song introduced a change in musical styles for Marvin Gaye, who before then had been recording songs with a funk edge.  Continue reading

4/20/24 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Come Sunday – Jazz At The Lincoln Jazz Center With Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis says of Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking masterpiece Black, Brown and Beige. Since its 1943 debut at Carnegie Hall, the piece—a sprawling survey of African American history—has been heralded as one of the most significant compositions in American orchestral music. Continue reading

3/30/25 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Whitney Houston – I Love The Lord | Live in Poland

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Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963 in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of 11, Houston started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah. When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls’ high school in Caldwell, New Jersey. Continue reading