Over 80 concerts, 500 musicians from 30 countries, 23 different locations, and around 40.000 visitors. Jazztage Dresden start today with the opening concert by the Klazz Brothers, Dresden Bigband, Trio Balkan Strings, and more. Coming up during the next four weeks: concerts by Nina Attal, Maceo Parker, Iiro Rantala Quartet, Max Mutzke and the Landesjugend…
Now more so than ever, don’t we all want to go to the land of Shangri-La? It seems as if Young Gun Silver Fox have come up with the perfect soundtrack for the trip. Andy Platts (Mamas Gun) and Shawn Lee are back with their fourth studio album, to be released this Friday on Légère…
Zee Desmondes and Teddy Powell are back for good. And more than that. Imagine Kashif, Quincy Jones, and Leon Sylvers getting together in the early to mid 80s. Out comes “Lionel Richie”, the first cut on the brilliant new album “Cruiserweight” by The Jack Moves. Wonderful string arrangements, “Off The Wall”-style vocals and a thick,…
It’s that time of year again. Starting November 3rd, over 150 musicians gather again for the 59th edition of Jazzfest Berlin. Five locations will host the guests for four days. Included in the lineup are Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, Tomeka Reid, Hamid Drake, and Kris Davis, among others. We’ll also get Immanuel Wilkins, Isaiah Collier,…
In the liner notes to her new album “Reasons”, singer Lindsey Webster says that “this is the most personal album I’ve ever written. You’ll likely feel the pain…but the excitement and beauty…were real moments in time…Reasons is in two parts, telling two totally different stories that occurred back-to-back.” The combination between Lindsey and her musical…
Gina was not very amused when singer Ann Hampton Callaway and her wife Kari came over to our place for a glass of champagne before we headed over to one of our favorite Italian restaurants in our neighborhood. She was very jealous and had to defend her territory, but after a while, she got by….
48 years after her Barry White-produced debut album “What Am I Gonna Do” came out in 1974, Texas-born singer Gloria Scott returns with her second album “So Wonderful”. At 76 now, she’s got the help of UK-based Snowboy who plays percussion throughout, and producer and drummer Andrew McGuinness. Gloria moved to San Francisco where she…
Amazing stuff on here. In 1977, Joyce Moreno recorded this album at Columbia Studios in New York, complete with brilliant jazz arrangements by the legendary Claus Ogerman and with the help of a stellar cast of American musicians, like Buster Williams, Michael Brecker, Mike Mainieri, and Joe Farrell. 45 years later, the album gets its…
Singer Maya Delilah chose the Neil Young classic “Harvest Moon”, later successfully romanticized by the great Cassandra Wilson on her Blue Note album “New Moon Daughter”, and transforms it into a thumping groover, still maintaining the melancholy of the original. It is one of the highlights of Blue Note’s second “Re:imagined” compilation series which features…
“Slow motion is exactly what we need”, according to Kathy Kosins and Bob Baldwin who team up for a pretty soothing and warm “Let’s Rewind”, off of Bob’s new album “B Positive”, which also features Vincent Ingala and Saskia Laroo. Kathy’s soulful vocals and Bob’s jazzy piano are a perfect match on a tune which…