Media Room Live! With Amber Weeks

Media Room Live! With Amber WeekesToday I spoke with Los Angeles-based jazz singer Amber Weekes who released her fifth album, To Oscar With Love, August 7. She talked about growing up around some of the most famous artists of the Harlem Renaissance, the L.A. jazz scene, and her relationship with singer, composer, and civil rights activist Oscar Brown, Jr. PAmber also mentioned the documentary Music Is My Life Politics Is Mistress (2005) and spoke at length about “The Snake,” above.Thanks so much to Amber for joining me.Media Room Live! With Linda May Han OhNext week I will meet with bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh to talk about Beneath Lifted Skies, to be released on Blue Note August 21. It includes fifteen standards performed by Oh and saxophonist Melissa Aldana.Regular Media Room readers may remember Linda from our September 2025 interview, “Music In The Moment.”Above, the duo performs “Hallucinations” by Bud Powell (1950).Media Room - The Arts in Real Life is reader-supported, AI-free, quality arts writing. If it is of value to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mediaroom.substack.com/subscribe