Today, Grammy-nominated producer, singer-songwriter, musician Terrace Martin shares a brand new album, Terrace Martin’s Gray Area – Live at the JammJam, with one of a kind live performances featuring an array of today’s top stars in jazz, hip-hop and more, like Kamasi Washington, Ben Wendel, Ronald Bruner Jr., Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, Paul Cornish, and Joshua Crumbly.
The collection was recorded live in-the-round with a full audience at one of Jammcard’s trademark events, the JammJam. This will be the first release from Jammcard Music, in partnership with Sounds of Crenshaw, and EMPIRE Distribution.
Gray Area is laced with nuances of modern society in troubled times. Terrace shares the dissatisfied feelings of his brothers with a jarring edition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” and later reimagines the song “For Free?”, one of his many collaborations with hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar. Terrace originally wrote the song with Kendrick for the album To Pimp a Butterfly, which Terrace also co-wrote and produced. A video of the performance was released earlier this week, with a full length jazz instrumental live version of that song, with insane solo’s from Ronald Bruner Jr. and Paul Cornish, with an intro where Terrace “tells the story of how my people are being treated right now.”
The JammJam is a highly curated live music event produced by Jammcard. It has brought the music community together to celebrate some of the biggest members of the industry such as, Quincy Jones and George Clinton. Performances have featured a variety of stars ranging from Ty Dolla $ign, Ice Cube, Jacob Collier, Judith Hill, Chika, Battlecat, Lauren Jauregui, Cory Henry, Anderson .Paak, to Mono Neon and of course, Terrace Martin and Kamasi Washington.
“It was a beautiful exchange of energy to have people that close to you in the midst of the music. Because we do life music. We do human-being music. We’re trying to help heal souls, and heal ourselves. So through that sometimes you need to feel your brothers and sisters, you need to feel them as close as possible to you to make sure the right message is conveyed to the public.” – Terrace Martin
“It’s an honor to work with Terrace. We have a great chemistry creatively, and he inspires me to try new things and keep going. It was his idea to have Jammcard start releasing music. So there’s no better way to start than by releasing his.” – Elmo Lovano, founder & CEO of Jammcard and producer of the JammJam.
Stream Gray Area Live at the JammJam now.
