Gina is not feeling well this week
She has a throat and bladder infection and is currently on medication. She sleeps a lot, but is still chasing dirty doves on the street.
Get well soon, Gina!
She has a throat and bladder infection and is currently on medication. She sleeps a lot, but is still chasing dirty doves on the street.
Get well soon, Gina!
Like the early 80s Charles Earland treat “Coming To You Live” from the album of the same name, we’re excited and looking forward to some much anticipated concerts in the next couple of weeks. First up, this Thursday, Manhattan Transfer singer Janis Siegel and Swedish pianist Mattias Nilsson will perform at King Georg in Cologne….
It would have been Nancy Wilson‘s 83rd birthday today and I thought I’d use the opportunity and feature another album in our new category of albums that you won’t find on Spotify. “Take My Love” was released in 1980 and Nancy’s commercial success had been on the low side after her incredible streak in the…
The sexual assault accusations in an ultraconservertive Catholic church diocese in Lyon is the topic of Francois Ozon‘s new movie “Grace A Dieu”. It portrays a current criminal conviction that is still being negotiated and where a verdict, at least one of many, will possibly be announced in March of this year. But a pastor…
Let’s hope that we will have an exciting festival season next year. More than anything else, going out to a club or spending time on a festival to see some live music are the things we miss the most. In a press statement of the unveiling of next year’s festival poster, the Montreux Jazz Festival…
Latest in the Blue Note 180g Reissue Vinyl series is a 1968 recording by trumpet master Lee Morgan. The album is issued in a gatefold sleeve with original liner notes by Leonard Feather. Already reissued for a CD release in 1996, with production by Michael Cuscuna, this new version was mastered by Kevin Gray from…
During my studies of American History and Journalism in the mid 90s at Berlin’s Freie Universität, I was also working as a bartender at one of Kreuzberg’s Mexican restaurants until a friend of mine one day told me about a new, small, commercial radio station playing Jazz 24/7 and if that’s something I wanted to…