We went on a three-hour walk with Gina last night through the illuminated city. It was the final night of Berlin’s now very popular annual Festival of Lights. Gina was one of the stars with her red, twinkling collar and the eerie shining eyes……
The Berlin Jazz scene is constantly looking for new ways to get the music across and to spur interest in this expanding music niche that seems to be growing with each day. Here is a new festival with a pretty interesting theme: four musicians, which have chosen Berlin as their main driving force and which…
I recently came across the name of Luca Manning through a tweet by UK vocalist Ian Shaw. I thought if Ian recommends someone, he or she must be worth checking out. So I contacted Luca and received his debut album which came out late last year. And guess what? It is full of surprises. The…
So here we are again at this monster festival. This is the 49th edition of North Sea Jazz, with more than 150 acts on 13 stages and around 70.000 annual visitors. I started out with Jamila Woods, a singer, songwriter and poet from Chicago whose album “Water Made Us” (2023) made some noise when it…
“Modern Love” is the highly anticipated tribute album to David Bowie, to be released on May 28th on the brilliant BBE Music label. We already mentioned We Are KING‘s contribution to the album, in another post in late January, and now here’s the third single off the album: English electronic band The Hics, that’s Sam…
Berlin, 1996. I was working in a Mexican restaurant in Kreuzberg until 1 AM. Closed the place and went to another bar to see friends. On some weekends, I started to DJ afterwards in various venues and often came home late mornings or around noon. Sleep was not an option, but Down To The Bone…
It’s his first full-length album since 1985 can you imagine! The man who gave us the immortal “You And Me” in 1980 only released a handful of singles afther his 1985 MCA Records album, among them the UK-based Debut 12″ “Are You Ready” in 1991. Rockie played London’s Jazz Café last weekend and is now…