She just finished her European tour. I was lucky to catch up with her in Vienna. I’m still going back to her 1985 LP “Good Morning Kiss”. Her new one, “Soul To Soul”, is her best so far and one of the best recordings of 2014. Happy Birthday Carmen and many more to come!
One of the most prestigious and popular festivals in Germany, the Jazzfest Berlin, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Martin Luther King’s visit to Berlin in 1964 and the fall of the Berlin Wall will be topics among this year’s program. „Freedom Songs“ is the title of a specially designed evening which will feature…
Sao Paulo-based singer and songwriter Bruno Berle has released a new single. It’s his first new music since his highly praised and still resonating debut LP “No Reino Dos Afetos”, which came out last year on Far Out Recordings. “Tirolirole” sounds like an instant classic. Its beautiful melody and pretty infectious hook is the perfect…
No, I haven’t seen this year’s winner, “Touch Me Not” by Romanian director Adina Pintilie, nor the Silver Bear winner, “Twarz” by Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, simply because I wasn’t interested in both stories. But it was an especially strong year for German movies (“Transit” at times a bit confusing though), even though they didn’t…
Just a few days after the new soft lockdown in Germany, Berlin’s Jazzfest this year had to find ways to react. The Berlin-based concerts will now be streamed online as well. Over the course of four festival days (November 5-8), there will be 27 projects in total. Kicking off this year’s festival is a discussion…
The SFJAZZ Collective, the famous octet which has released a great body of work since their debut in 2004, has announced a new member: trumpeter Sean Jones joins the group and replaces trumpeter Avishai Cohen. Also on the horizon: a new album which will be the first with Sean and which will explore the music…
Hear The World is a Foundation which tries to raise awareness about the importance of hearing and hearing loss. Diana Krall was recently photographed by Bryan Adams for a calendar of which 100 per cent of the sales proceeds go to that particular foundation. Also photographed were Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Paradis, Jean Paul Gaultier, and…