African Skies Makes Best Lists in 2018

Happy New Year!  I am so thrilled that this past year, 2018, my bands album, “African Skies”, made Andrew Gilbert’s (prominent jazz advocate and correspondent for all jazz music being made and produced in the greater San Francisco Bay Area) best of the Bay Area albums by Jazz Musicians.  I rarely consider myself a jazz […]

The Jemal Ramirez Group Has Shows In The San Francisco Bay Area–August 11-14, 2018.

A string of great shows and the next installment of recordings from the Jemal Ramirez Group are just around the corner.  We would love to play music for you and yours, live in person.  We’ll have copies of our records to sign for you as well as a limited first run of Joyful Beat Records T-shirts. […]