The Funk Jazz Cafe

FunkJazz Kafé was formed to create and environment for the growth & development of the progressive fusion of music, poetry, and visual arts in the underground of cultural cities worldwide.

Patrick Adams Productions Music Pages

From the soft soulful refrain of "DON"T TURN AROUND" by BLACK IVORY.....Through the persistent chant of "PUSH, PUSH IN THE BUSH".....On top of the world with "TOUCH ME ALL NIGHT LONG." by CATHY DENNIS.... Scoring to children down the road in PARAMOUNT'S INTERACTIVE "BUSYTOWN" or the cyber-nooks and crannies of the coming TURNER NEW MEDIA/WARNER BROTHERS "CARTOON NETWORK WORLD -...or celebrating tradition in his new musical,
"OLD FASHION CHRISTMAS" --- Patrick Adams remains one of the most consistent and entertaining songwriters of our times.

The R&B Page, an enjoyable way for R&B fans to instantly access familiar music, new music and exclusive interviews (via RealAudio 3.0) from R&B artists they know and love...Get a first look at information available nowhere else, and hear our featured acts discuss their music and careers...

Coded Messages: CHAINS explores an intercultural interface ecosystem by juxtaposing the drum language performance of the Ewe people of Ghana, West Africa, with the advertisements of multinational corporate society. The performance strategies of CHAINS are based on the compositional and media integration aesthetics of Ewe performances -- which blend drumming, dancing, singing, costumes and architecture in a unified expressive form -- and avant garde performance strategies from environmental theater and new music. Like the site specific performances in the remote village of Anyako and the historic slave trade Castle at Cape Coast, which preceeded it, the CHAINS WWW site builds its context into the delivery of its messages.The CHAINS site is ranked in The Top 5% of all Web Sites.

The Archives of African American Music and Culture is a center devoted to the research and study of African American music and culture. Collections include audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, and oral histories, among other artifacts and ephemera related to popular, religious, and art musics, and Black radio. The archives conducts collaborative resarch with such units as the Afro-American Arts Institue and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, the Smithsonian Institution and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

The TAMARIN is part of a private initiative to help discover one of the many fascinating faces of the African continent. Exhibits include paintings, sculptures and photographs which have a common denominator: Africa and its surroundings. The artists are mostly African, and a few foreigners if their source of inspiration and their work of art reflect life in the continent. Some items in the exhibitions are for sale.

This is your pathway to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and will include a directory of national fine art services specializing in the Art of the Diaspora. Featuring the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro-Latin America including Brazil, and Polynesia.

Virtual African art gallery. Rated in the top 5 percent of all web pages

The National Museum of African Art celebrates the rich visual traditions and extraordinarily diverse cultures of Africa. Through its collections, exhibitions, research, and public programs, the museum fosters an appreciation of African art and civilizations.

Tributes to blues greats, radio listings, Billboard's top 15, and links to other sites. The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore the pain of enslavement behind the frightful shadows of our collective soul. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not. (An excerpt from the Blue Highway Website)

AFRICAN AMERICAN FINE ART PRINTS By PALOMA EDITIONS

African American Art

AFRICAN ART: AESTHETICS AND MEANING

An Electronic Exhibition Catalog-The objects selected for this exhibit were chosen both to exemplify African aesthetic and moral principles .Most of the pieces in the exhibit come from West African societies.

Art Gallery Emporium

Offers an exclusive and unique cyber mall of exquisite artwork by remarkably talented artists from around the world.

Alonzo Adams Art In the journey from Alonzo’s imagination to the canvas, these snapshots of everyday life become enduring portraits that speak eloquently to the African American experience and make him one of the brightest rising stars of the art world.

Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire(a Yoruba and Akan art exhibit)

Debbie's Ordinary People (featuring African American Folkart Figurines)

The Electronic Art Gallery- An electronic art gallery featuring many caribeans artists, from Haiti and Trinidad

El Reflector (web's largest graffiti link page)

The Ekaya Institute

Graffitti Art (Graffiti Art from Cities around the world) Our goals are to provide cultural information and resources and to help preserve and document the constantly disappearing art.

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology Dedicated to the study of the art and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education.

Introduction to African Art (excellent primer and introduction to African Art)

Jerome Johnson (original African Art pieces)

Karamu comes from the Swahili language and means celebration. In this case it is a celebration of African-American art.

London Calling Pixel and Paper GalleryAfrica Archive A rare and extensive collection of photographs, slides and postcards from all around Africa. Most are from the 19th century and early 20th.

Michael S. Schwartz Photography (Professional photographer's photo page containing some great shots of rap artists)

Million Man March: Our Legacy (lithograph tribute to the event of the Million Man March)

Songs of My People (each photograph is a beat in the rhythm of a song yet unfinished)

The Zone I Gallery(Photography showcase)