Holly Cole – Dark Moon

Holly Cole – Dark Moon

Canadian singer Holly Cole hast just released her 13th album, called “Dark Moon”. And she continues her unique streak of mysterious and oblique soundscapes with her signature raspy voice. Holly works with her longtime collaborators Aaron Davis (piano, Rhodes), George Koller (bass), and Davidé DiRenzo (drums) plus guests Kevin Breit (guitar), Michael Davidson (vibes), Howard…

Luxury Soul 2025

Luxury Soul 2025

It has become sort of a now really precious tradition: at each start of a new year, indie soul will get a top-notch representation via the three-CD “Luxury Soul” compilation on Expansion Records, thanks again to Ralph Tee. If you use our “Search” tool and put in “Luxury Soul”, you will get all of our…

Three Albums from 2024 not to be missed: Renee, Avishai, and Simon

Three Albums from 2024 not to be missed: Renee, Avishai, and Simon

We just wanted to remind you of three albums released last year which we went back to over and over again. All three are out on vinyl too. Pianist and composer Renee Rosnes released “Crossing Paths” on December 6th on Smoke Sessions Records. The nine songs on the album feature Brazilian classics written by Egberto…

EFG London Jazz Festival: Toninho Horta. Keyon Harrold
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EFG London Jazz Festival: Toninho Horta. Keyon Harrold

This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival is my first. I always wanted to go since there is so much to be liked about this festival. First of all, obviously, the programming. This year is another one with an extremely diverse, versatile and eclectic array of artists too numerous to mention here. But what is also…

6th Rockit Festival
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6th Rockit Festival

The sixth edition of this year’s Rockit Festival, located at Groningen’s SPOT, ended on Saturday night with a rousing, highly entertaining, and crazy set by MonoNeon. The bassist, whose real name is Dywane Thomas Jr. and who is known for his hilariously extravagant costumes, also released a pretty spacy Moog EP earlier this year called…