How do you follow up a five-paw reviewed album, an album that really caught us by surprise after so many years of being under the radar? When Eddie Chacon, one half of the duo Charles & Eddie who scored a hit in the early 90s with “Would I Lie To You”, released “Pleasure, Joy And…
UK music collective Reel People, Oli Lazarus and Mike Petto, just released their fifth record today. It’s available on vinyl too! After a short intro, soul crooner Eric Roberson starts things off with a great, shuffling boogie monster on “Save A Lil Love”. I really dig the voice of Michael Champion, featured here on a…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt started his recordings with New York-based HighNote Records back in 2010 with “Men Of Honor”, an album which features J.D. Allen on tenor sax, Danny Grissett on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass, and Gerald Cleaver on drums. He released four albums on MaxJazz before that and his debut on Fresh Sound New…
I have always admired the piano playing of Eric Reed. I first encountered his music with his two albums on MoJazz (“It’s All Right To Swing”, 1993, and “The Swing And I”, 1995); both records brimming with originality and an impeccably soulful approach. Both also including intense Gospel moments, whether on a beautiful version of…
Vince Mendoza is back with a new, 9-piece album featuring music for and with the Metropole Orkest. Vince has worked with countless musicians in the past, like Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Melody Gardot, or Gregory Porter. He has two tracks on his latest album with two of the most precious singers around: Dianne…
Local Talk is a Swedish house music label established in 2011 by Mad Mats and Tooli. Mad Mats ran Raw Fusion Recordings from 2002-2010. There are several sublabels like Beer (great name for a record label!), 1Nce Again, and One Offs. Over the years, Local Talk has issued music by Crackazat, HNNY, Soulphiction, Mateo &…
It’s the perfect match. The soulful vocals of Andy Platts who also plays keys, and the guitar and vocals of Shawn Lee. They’re in perfect harmony and thus, the sound of Young Gun Silver Fox always seems to be incredibly relaxing and magical. On record and on stage as they proved last night at Berlin’s…
You never know what you get with a new Sam Gendel album. “DRM” totally surprised me with its spacy acoustics back in 2020. Here he is again with a set of covers of r&b and soul hits from 1992-2004. Songs by Aaliyah, 112, Ginuwine, Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, and more. The spacy surrounding is still there,…
A pretty courageous move to call an album “The Rebirth Of Marvin”. Singer, songwriter, and producer Jared Samuel Erskine, who is known as October London, does just that with his 30-minute set which just came out on Death Row Records. With the longest track clocking in at 3:43 minutes and a lot of tunes being…
Vocalist, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist Nadia Washington has worked with Dianne Reeves, Lalah Hathaway, George Duke, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, among many others. The Dallas-born artist first came to these ears on the 2015 Revive Music compilation “Supreme Sonacy Vol. 1”. Her first solo album, six years in the making, will drop this Friday. And…