The legendary drummer is celebrating his 90th birthday next March 13th and New York’s famous Blue Note Club will be the artist’s party location. Haynes, who started his career in 1945, will be at the West Village club from March 13th-15th and each night will feature two shows and a different special guest artist: Bassist…
The famous clarinetist died on Wednesday in Florida at the age of 91. DeFranco was the most popular bebop clarinetist who joined Gene Krupa‘s band in 1941 and later those of Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller. After those big band and swing years, he was one of the very few who took the…
Gina wishes you a Merry Christmas wherever you are. Woof woof!
He is best known as a songwriter for timeless songs by The Chi-Lites like “Oh Girl” or “Have You Seen Her” or the successful “Soulful Strut” for Young-Holt Unlimited which later became a hit for his wife Barbara Acklin as “Am I The Same Girl”. Eugene Record left The Chi-Lites in 1976 to record three…
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.
“Love Has Come Around”, the Donald Byrd classic from the trumpeter’s Isaac Hayes-produced “Love Byrd” album from 1981, has finally received the cover treatment. It is a sacred song for me so I was a bit hesitant before I listened to it, but the song is in good hands: it has been recorded by the…
It’s a drummer’s record. What Questlove, James Gadson and Chris Dave do with their instruments pushes the music on the long-awaited (14 years) album in all kinds of directions. Together with a sophisticated and cool drum programming, they create some amazingly funky, soulful, shuffling and jazzy tunes here. For me, the album starts to really…
She is not copying the great Miss Nancy Wilson nor does she want to follow in Wilson’s footsteps: for her fourth CD, singer Cynthia Felton, who is also the founder of the Ethnomusicology Library of American Heritage, pays tribute to one of the best storytellers in music her way. And trying to choose 11 songs…
And just when you thought that everyone has recorded a Xmas album by now, here come Earth, Wind & Fire with their “Holiday” CD which is a nod to their 70s heyday disco/soul sound. You can hear “Happy Feelin’s” again as “Happy Seasons”. One of their biggest hits, “September”, becomes “December”. Yes you might want…
The guys from Outta Sight Ltd. have come up with another great compilation of soul-inflected jazz tunes. The CD is called “On A Cool Day. The Soulful Side of Cool Jazz”. And although there has never been an accurate definition of Cool Jazz, it is widely known as coming onto the scene in post-Bebop 50s…