Gina today woofed a special Happy Birthday to the one and only Joni Mitchell.
“Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced” will be released on November 17. This is a 4-CD boxed set with 53 previously-released tracks which have all been remastered.
“Night Ride Home” is one of my favorite Joni M albums. It’s from 1991 and is often overlooked.
During a period when The Guardian asks if you should get rid of your CDs and a phenomenal resurgence in sales of vinyl nobody expected, I have come across dozens of reasons in the past month why CDs are dead. Three of those reasons for not hanging on to my CD collection: Number One: the…
Gina is getting ready here for her stroll through the Prenzlauer Berg Green Market where she usually collects her groceries, fish and meat for the week. She recently changed her diet to fresh meat and additional carrots, salad, cucumber, or parsnip with a dose of oatmeal and a little cotton cheese thrown into the mix….
It’s been two months now since my last post here – summer season is incredibly busy at our beautiful beer garden. Nevertheless, I’m constantly listening to new music and I also discovered a wonderful soul station on the web (thank you Frank). Please check out www.soulradio.nl which features a lot of the music I grew…
It got to the point in the 80s and 90s when a look at the credits list of each new LP was not only meant to check the musicians, producers, and arrangers, but also the name of the engineer. If it was Al Schmitt, it had to be good and there was no reason not…
Marcus Miller is wrapping up his first part of his European tour in Amsterdam tonight. He’ll be back over here for the festival season at the end of June with performances at Northsea Jazz or Jazz Open in Stuttgart. Yesterday, he played Berlin’s Postbahnhof. Earlier that day, I had the chance to talk to him…
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…