I just added a paragraph to my article about Norma Jean Bell. I have recently reconnected with an old friend, the illustrious Mr. Kern Brantley, a monster of a bass player, and the musical director for the Beyonce show (among others). He appears in concert and on TV regularly (he let me know he was on the Ellen show last week, I was unable to catch it but I'm sure it was awesome.) Anyway, let me just print here the paragraph I wrote in the other article:  "one more really important detail... is the fact that the reason I was able...

Thelonius Fonk featuring Ronrico Morris ok Ron you can quit cryin' now   [RONRICO: If yer readin' this man, I want you to know the only reason I wrote it is because I love you and I miss you bro. We used to throw down some serious sh&t.] So what's all this "Quit Cryin" insanity all about? Well... back in the day I used to hang out with this guy named RonRico ______. Ron, if yer out there man, get in touch. RonRico is the one who actually brought that phrase into the mainstream of my conciousness. What a personality. Ron was this...

I received my new copy of Captain Jarvis today... the record was not released on CD, Noel died in 1994 ya know... the only copy I had was my original vinyl disc from 1979. I used it to make an mp3 a couple of months ago, but there was still an annoying skip that's been there forever, that I wasn't able to get rid of, so I had a copy of the album digitally re-mastered by a professional service. I've ripped it to mp3, and WOW, let me tell you... I think that is one nice sounding piece of music......

Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock: composer, producer, writer, lyricist, arranger, performer, artist, record executive, software engineer Current projects include: the new Funkmeister CD, and a new album for Jesse Jones Jr. Hugh has worked on stage or in the studio with the following people of note: Anita Baker (famed songstress, "Sweet Love") Luis Resto (producer, Eminem) Stephen Bray (writer, Madonna) Belita Woods (vocalist, P-Funk, Brainstorm "Lovin' is Really My Game") David Lee Chong (synthesizers/writer, P-Funk, "Atomic Dog") Larry Fratangelo (percussionist, P-Funk "One Nation Under a Groove") Lamont Johnson (bass/vocals, Brainstorm, "This Must Be Heaven") Norma Jean Bell (saxophone, Frank Zappa, Santana, Mahavishnu) Kashif (writer, producer "Love Come Down") Carolyn Crawford (vocalist, Bohannon "Get on...

I would like to welcome everyone to my new web site. I figured it's about time I set something up like this for myself. Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock jamming on a sunday afternoon   If you would like to hear some of my music, please click on the portrait of me on the lefthand side of the page. Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock (right) with the Martian Entropy Band circa 1974   note: to actually hear the music, you will need a functioning audio device [sound card] on your computer, some speakers plugged in [turned on and turned up loud] and the appropriate version of flash...

I went down to Florida with my Thai girlfriend in May of 1982. We both got homesick after a while, so we came back up to Michigan in January of 1983. After returning to Michigan, I scored a gig with Norma Jean Bell and the All-Stars, who had a house gig at a club in Detroit called Axel's, on Eight-Mile Road -- the same Eight Mile Road that Eminem named his movie after. (I had some gigs in the same city where Eminem grew up -- Waterford township -- and I've worked with Eminem's producer, Luis Resto! But that is...