Gina has just finished her weekly 60-minute playlist of songs we’ve come back to more than once during this past week. It features a track from the brilliant new EP “Brazilian Indie Hippie Retro” by Haroldo Bontempo, new music by Pat Metheny from his upcoming solo album due in July, another great new track by Harry Linacre, music from the wonderful new album by Vinicius Cantuária, a return of the beautiful Dee C. Lee, and lots more.
It is a sinister black & white movie shot in 70s Czech Republic. Olga is bullied by everybody: her mother who won’t tell her who her father is, the other children, the inmates of a boarding school. She thinks that everyone is picking on her without any real reason. So she flees into her own world,…
I know it’s not really politically correct to start out with the negatives, but I have absolutely no understanding for the fact that the vinyl version of “Love For Sale”, presumably Tony Bennett‘s last album of his unusally long career, only has 10 songs instead of the 12 tracks which ended up on the official…
Scope is a new festival presenting Finnish musicians in various, hip Berlin-Kreuzberg venues. The people responsible for the extremely successful XJazz Festival, now in its fourth year and scheduled for May 3-7, 2017, have chosen a lot of future and some established Finnish musicians to perform. Together with We Jazz Helsinki, an event first held…
Harpist Brandee Younger releases her first major label album “Somewhere Different” on the Impulse! label. After “Wax & Wane” (2016), “Soul Awakening” (2019), and her work with Dezron Douglas, “Force Majeure” (2020), this is her fourth release overall. It’s out on vinyl too! And even though the harp is not really your prevalent instrument in…
The Echo Jazz 2015 ceremony is scheduled for May 28th in Hamburg, a day before the popular Elbjazz Festival starts. Among the nominees are: Michael Wollny Trio (Ensemble of the year, national), Vincent Peirani & Émile Parisien (Ensemble of the year, international), Johanna Borchert (vocalist, national), Somi (vocalist, international), Julia Kadel (Piano/Keys, national), Stefano Bollani…
Cuban singer Dayme Arocena released a brilliant album last year on the UK-based Brownswood Recordings. Her irresistible mix of jazz, latin , and something like Cuban neo-soul is pretty unique and ecstatic. Listen to her six-track “One Takes” and you hopefully get the drift. At only 24 years old, Daymé is also part of Jane…