bones

Artist: Michael Mayo

Title: Bones

Release Date: June 4, 2021

Format(s): 

• CD: 6-panel digipak

• Digital: High-res 96/24

Genre(s): R&B / Soul

Project Description: Virtuosic vocalist/composer and international performer Michael Mayo establishes himself as one of the most acclaimed and versatile voices in music today with his label debut, Bones, on Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group. Produced by Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, J Dilla, Robert Glasper, Maceo Parker).

Michael is a gifted singer and arranger who is only the third vocalist ever accepted into the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (now the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz) in its 20-year history. Michael moves with ease between interpreting classics with a small group or big band, to creating experimental and improvisational solo compositions that can have as many as 250 looped and layered vocal lead and choral harmony parts. Michael has toured internationally with Herbie Hancock and he’s been the featured vocalist on the following artists’ releases: Kneebody, Scary Pockets, Amber Navran.