She just finished her European tour. I was lucky to catch up with her in Vienna. I’m still going back to her 1985 LP “Good Morning Kiss”. Her new one, “Soul To Soul”, is her best so far and one of the best recordings of 2014. Happy Birthday Carmen and many more to come!
Sao Paulo-based singer and songwriter Bruno Berle has released a new single. It’s his first new music since his highly praised and still resonating debut LP “No Reino Dos Afetos”, which came out last year on Far Out Recordings. “Tirolirole” sounds like an instant classic. Its beautiful melody and pretty infectious hook is the perfect…
Life magazine has called it “the country’s very best music festival”. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, first held in 1970, continues to “celebrate the culture of Louisiana with the combined fervor of a gospel hymn and the joy of a jazz parade”, according to the website. Just announced: the lineup…
Some people never get old. It is hard to believe that George Benson is 80 now. The last time I saw him perform live was at last year’s North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. The music of George Benson has accompanied us since childhood so we’re celebrating today listening to everything from tracks of one…
Pianist and keyboardist Bill Laurance and multi-instrumentalist and Snarky Puppy founder Michael League, who now lives in Spain, are taking their beautiful music of “Where You Wish You Were” to various stages in Europe. The LP, which was released on the German Act Music label, came out in late January of last year and garnered…
Waiting for 45 minutes for the show to start at Berlins Columbiahalle is really nothing compared to the 14 years we all waited until his third album was released late last year. What D’Angelo came up with on stage was pretty impressive: a nine-piece band, among them Pino Palladino on bass, Kendra Foster on vocals…
I know that the Grammy Awards are not as important today as they used to be and I also know that I’m not the only one who thinks that Adele is unbelievably overrated with her pretty blood-, soul-, and lifeless singing that leaves me totally cold, but still, a Grammy nomination and a Grammy win…