Norwegian-Bazilian singer Charlotte Dos Santos is going to release her new 5-track EP “Harvest Time” on March 13th. After her 2017 album “Cleo”, Charlotte, who has attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music for a Performance and Arranging Major, sounds a lot more self-contained and unique on her new songs. She is currently touring with…
“Some cats swing and some cats groove” – those are the words by Marcellus “Bassman” Shepard on vibraphonist Warren Wolf‘s new album on Mack Avenue, “Reincarnation”. The wonderful warm Rhodes sounds of Brett Williams on the “Smooth Intro” and “Smooth Outro” pieces are honey for the soul. It’s pretty obvious that Warren and his cohorts…
Electronic ambient sounds were part of the influence of Portuguese pianist and composer Rodrigo Leão for his new album “O Método”, which was released late last month. As was the music of Nils Frahm whose work ethos and moods sometimes pop up here as well. But this is no copy, no cheap cover of anything,…
It could be the pop songs of the day, a veritable jazz standard, or a classy soul tune, whatever Nancy Wilson touched, became angelic. After almost 60 years in the business and dozens and dozens of timeless recordings, she left this world yesterday at age 81 after a long illness. She died at her home…
Not a lot of really interesting new records out lately, so I’m filling the gaps in my vinyl collection with the help of the brilliant Discogs online marketplace. I recently found two Lani Hall LPs there after reading James Gavin’s profile of the singer in the December JazzTimes magazine: the 1975 “Hello It’s Me” and…
Entertainment Cruise Productions has organized various music cruises since 2001, such as The Jazz Cruise, The Smooth Jazz Cruise, or The Playboy Jazz Cruise. The next Jazz Cruise starts on January 26th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a 7-day trip with stops in Nassau, The Bahamas, Cozumel and Costa Maya in Mexico, and Key West…
Gina has a new friend or toy for a day or two. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Gina is currently on vacation on the isle of Juist. She is enjoying the motor-free environment and tries to tease the horses and seagulls. She’s also digging lots of deep holes into the sand on the beach.
In my review of the Northsea Jazz Festival 2015, I wrote about Roy Hargrove’s performance: “A fitting finale for me was the hot and cool, the fast and the furious Roy Hargrove Quintet mastering everything from hardbop grittiness to some preppy Golson/Farmer stuff and grooving, loping attacks. I still hope that he is not planning…
Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On The Temptations – Papa Was A Rolling Stone Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On Quincy Jones – Body Heat Herbie Hancock – Man-Child Bill Withers – Making Music Labelle – Chameleon The Whispers – Open Up Your Love Donald Byrd – Thank You…For F.U.M.L. Carrie Lucas – Street…