So here she is at 83, Roberta Flack, winning a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Grammy Awards which has become something of a farce in recent years. Some of the Merit awards winners were announced in a pre-recorded video. None was shown in the telecast. Showbiz411 writes, “Roberta Flack, who is using a wheelchair,…
Saxophonist, composer, and engineer Andre Solomko, born in the Ukraine, has come up with an enticing new track on the Paris-based Favorite Recordings label. After two self-produced albums, he joined Favorite Recorings after a longer stint in Finland and has released another three albums there, the latest, “Le Deltaplane” (2018), a rich mélange of soul,…
Time for female power on singer Robin McKelle‘s new album “Alterations”, her first album of cover songs featuring the work of artists like Sade, Lana Del Ray, Adele, Dolly Parton, Billie Holiday, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, or Janis Joplin. Pianist Shedrick Mitchell has helped her co-produce and arrange the album of which Robin says: “The…
We remember Natalie Cole all day today. It would have been her 70th birthday.
GLOW is not a single artist or a group, but rather a production team of songwriters, producers and composers who works for groups, bands, and solo artists. And so, Dave Love starts off this brilliant indie soul album with a very sexy “Best Of Me”, shuffling along effortlessly and with a lot of warmth, reminding…
A compilation sent from heaven thanks to Rainer Trueby, DJ and producer whose main focus lies on boogie, 2-Step, Modern Soul and Jazz. Starting off the proceedings with Peter Brown‘s “Without Love”, a track from his 1977 “A Fantasy Love Affair” LP featuring the vocals of Pat Hurley, the mood is set with an elegantly…
Everyone uses Spotify these days. However, I have realized that tons of albums I was researching don’t exist there for whatever reasons. Which always makes me go back to my vinyl collection and spin some of those good old gems. This is going to be a loosely published review section of albums you won’t find…
There will be all the naysayers again complaining about why artists such as Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, or Alicia Keys are part of a jazz festival programme when in fact, the vast majority of the line-up clearly is jazz and also, what’s the real problem behind it? There is nothing wrong if a huge festival…
The Rhodes on Stevie Wonder’s “Superwoman” at the beginning of pianist/keyboardist Theo Hill‘s interpretation of the Wonder classic is worth the trip alone. He also makes use of the piano and some synth touches, echoing the original, somewhat mystical composition. “Reality Check” is the third release for Theo on the LA-based Posi-Tone label and features…
There is this special beauty, the Scandinavian mythic touch on “Kristallen”, the new duo disc by Swedish trombonist and singer Nils Landgren and pianist Jan Lundgren, also from Sweden. “It’s very much a matter of leaving notes out, of making space”, Nils told me recently during an interview at his label’s offices. ACT Music is…