Natalie Cole at 65

Natalie Cole at 65

It’s Natalie Cole‘s birthday today. The nine-time Grammy Award winner was also nominated three times for her current CD, “Natalie Cole En Espanol”. Natalie has several performances coming up and she also has an exclusive gig in Germany in April which seems to be her only appearance in Europe so far this year. Natalie plays…

Luxury Soul 2015

Luxury Soul 2015

It is always a pleasure at the beginning of each year to receive the consistently brilliant independent Luxury Soul compilations. I have checked in my files and found all discs going back to 2004 with great music by Leon Ware, Frank McComb, Keni Burke, Sandra St. Victor, or Ronnie McNeir. The latest 3 CD Box…

Diana Krall Tackles Loneliness On Her New Wallflower Album

Diana Krall Tackles Loneliness On Her New Wallflower Album

For her new album “Wallflower”, Diana Krall mostly recorded songs from the 70s with the help of producer David Foster who also did the plush orchestral arrangements, Joachim van der Saag who programmed the disc and was responsible for the so-called sound design, and lots of first-rate musicians. But those musicians are kept in the…