She got all dressed up yesterday for her birthday celebration at one of Berlin’s Christmas markets. She also had an extra sausage and a slice of meat from an organic corn chicken. Earlier that day, she met a lot of her friends while she went for an extensive walk.
About the song “Here It Comes” from the new album “Music” by Benny Sings (Tim van Berkestijn), the Dutch artist says: “The lyrics are about me as a young boy, living on the streets in Dordrecht with my skate crew, and feeling life presenting itself, and feeling excited about it. A time full of hope…
I had no idea that this would already be singer Natalie Douglas‘ 51st performance at Birdland and I never told anyone but I was originally scheduled to fly to Detroit on Monday and when I realized that she was singing at Birdland that night, I rescheduled and postponed my flight to Tuesday. Was it worth…
Many things have been said about John Coltrane‘s “A Love Supreme”, the landmark album which has sold 500.000 copies and which consists of a four-piece suite. The spiritual, enlightening, meditative masterpiece was recorded on December 9th, 1964 and features McCoy Tyner on piano (who turns 76 today), Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on…
They have performed together for more than twenty years and finally team up now for a record on the briliant Edition Records from the UK. Both have individually released their latest records on Edition, too: Gretchen with “Flor” in 2021, and Lionel with his Herbie Hancock solo tribute “HH” in 2020, with its 6-track remix…
Harmonica player Grégoire Maret just announced a new album for the German ACT Music label: together with Romain Collin, he tackles the music of Ennio Morricone on “Ennio”, to be released on April 26th. Both his 2016 album “Wanted” and his 2020 LP “Americana” received five-paw reviews from Gina. And we still remember his brilliant…
Happy Birthday to The Songstress. Late last year, her tour dates were announced. She will be joined on tour by Babyface. Earlier this year, she released a short clip on Twitter with a snippet of new music, supposed to come out later this year. The last time I saw her was in 2019 at North…