As summer is winding down, Gina prepares her move back into town after several months out in her garden. She also spent a few weeks at her home away from home in Doniaga, the Netherlands. And how good it feels to return to live music events. I had the pleasure of seeing Brandee Younger, Azymuth,…
This performance was worth the trip alone: Lisa Fischer and Ledisi perform the music of Nina Simone accompanied by the Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley conducting. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that both Ledisi and Lisa Fischer are among the most amazing vocalists around today. What they brought to the table last…
It is a new experience waiting in the hallway with literally hundreds of other people, waiting to get in to the Amazon hall at Ahoy during North Sea Jazz 2022. This happened yesterday at Herbie Hancock‘s performance. I finally got my way in during the very last minutes. And once again, nobody was wearing a…
I still remember the year when Gregory Porter performed on the tiny roof terrace where usually some local and other DJs were spinning records. Nobody really seemed to take notice. Yesterday, he played the biggest hall of the Ahoy festival complex, the Nile. A solid set, totally deserving all the accolades. Earlier that day on…
After a visit by Martinho da Vila on June 2nd, the Brazilian series at Haus der Kulturen der Welt will continue on July 5th with the legendary Gilberto Gil. His new show “Nós a Gente – We The People” will celebrate the musical diversity and life itself with friends and family. A week later, July…
After two years of empty halls in Rotterdam’s Ahoy during the second weekend of each July, the festival is back with an amazing line-up for the 2022 edition. I still remember my last visit in 2019 when José James opened the festival with the Metropol Orkest and the music of Bill Withers. Hearing José’s voice…
There is something deeply satisfying with the mixture of deep house and jazz, neo-soul and pop. Ben Jacobs, known as Crackazat, has come up with the perfect album, combining all those elements and more on his new album “Evergreen”, to be released this Friday on Freerange Records, the label co-founded by Jimpster (Jamie Odell), whose…
“I always thought it was a strange insect. Once while in Paris, a friend swatted at one and I asked: ‘Was that a moth?’. I was told: ‘No, that’s a papillon de nuit.’ I thought that was the most beautiful description for this otherwise overlooked creature. When I later learned of the symbolism associated with…
Four years after “Lins, Lennox & Life”, singer Dee Bell returns with a couple of new tracks for “Love For Sailin’ Over Seas: Then & Now” which features songs from her previous albums “Silva Bell Elation” with Marcos Silva (2014) and “Sagacious Grace” (2011) and two more from the afore-mentioned 2018 album: “By Chance” and…
He wears a lot of hats: producer, songwriter, musician, curator. Now, Tom Misch comes up with a new project. Supershy is supposed to feature more dance-oriented stuff. Stuff for the dancefloor. That’s what this crazy pandemic has now become known for too: artists come up with ideas and pieces which would probably not have seen…