It is a difficult decision the two pairs have to make since their children committed a brutal crime years ago. What is the best way to deal with that? Live on with the guilt on your back or turn them in? It is the reason why the four meet for dinner in this hilariously posh…
Chavela Vargas had this rare ability to move her audiences to tears. Why? Because to her, solitude was her only friend. The only thing that gave her comfort. Well, maybe at least for a longer stretch in her life, it was the tequila as well. Born in Costa Rica, abandoned by her parents, she ran…
“Let’s go to the movies and dream a little”, says Django Reinhardt (Reda Kateb) to his old girlfriend Louise de Clerk (Cécile de France), maybe trying to shy away from taking decisions. Even though he already had decided not to go on tour in Nazi Germany, but instead stay in France and then, as the political…
First it was Al Jarreau who had to confirm earlier this week that he is going to retire from performing, and now Aretha Franklin told a TV station in Detroit that she will retire after the release of her next album, which is going to be produced by Stevie Wonder and will be out later…
Six years in the making and now it’s officially released: “The Men In The Glass Booth” includes re-edits and remixes by the most influential DJs of the disco era, starting with a then totally new and obscure format, the 12″ single on Salsoul Records (“Ten Percent” by Double Exposure, 1976) and continuing on two 5-LP…
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced its line-up for the 2017 edition. The two weekends of April 28th and May 7th will have a ton of local and regional acts again plus dozens of headliners sure to draw a lot of attention from music lovers the world over. On the first day,…
After almost three weeks abroad, Gina was excited and oh so happy to have me back earlier this week. It is now back to business as usual with up to four walks every day, playing ball, and watching cat videos. We are currently listening to each and every one of the 41 LPs I bought…
When ACT founder Siggi Loch invited journalists over for a special luncheon during the 1992 Montreux Jazz Festival to celebrate the start of his new label, I didn’t expect this particular label to be where it is, 25 years later. Or that it still would be in existence even. I also remember that a young…
On my last day of this fabulous trip, I went to see two of my favorite artists: the queen of soul and jazz flute, Bobbi Humphrey, and the incredibly soulful Portland-based singer, songwriter, and pianist Jarrod Lawson. Ginny’s Supper Club at the Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue, right off the bubbling 125th Street in Harlem, was…
More record store visits on Thursday, like Solo Records & Tapes on Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak or Street Corner Music on Greenfield in Oak Park. Peggy Lee, Noel Pointer, Aretha Franklin, The Jones Girls, etc. I’ve also toured the Henry Ford Museum where they have a lot of artifacts from the American history, from…