singer Silje Nergaard has released her album “Chain Of Days” last month (see also review on these pages) and is currently on tour through Germany.
She stops by Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann at 7pm tonight to play a few songs from the new album. I’ll also have the pleasure of interviewing her live on stage to talk about her new project. So why don’t you stop by? It’s a free event: KulturKaufhaus Dussmann, Friedrichstr. 90 in Mitte.
The fast rise of ultra soulful singer/pianist/composer Jarrod Lawson from Portland, Oregon has come to a new chapter last night at New Morning in Paris, his first visit to France. That’s where he started his 5-week European tour and that’s where he presented his amazing vocal and songwriting skills together with his imaginative piano playing….
We’ve been living with this album for a few weeks now and still can’t get enough of it. “Cure The Jones”, the group’s sixth album, to be released on Légère Recordings this Friday, opens with the amazingly sophisticated “When You Stole The Sun From The Sky” with the trademark harmony vocals from the group and…
Most important note at the beginning: This compilation is available as a double vinyl! 16 of the UK’s most in-demand jazz and organic acts have come together to create their own reworks of classics from the vast Blue Note vaults. “Rose Rouge” from the now anthemic 2000 “Tourist” album by St Germain, gets things going…
Nina Simone‘s “Fodder On My Wings” was recorded in 1982 for the French Carrere label and has now been released on hi-res audio on LP and CD on Verve. The album was re-released in 1988 on the French Cy label and included three additional tracks, also included here. Nina had already moved to Paris and…
Tal Arditi, guitarist and composer from Israel, will open this year’s garden concert matinee season in Berlin’s Gartenlokal Alte Baumschule on Sunday, April 19th, at 1pm. Recognised as a young guitar prodigy, Tal started to study at Rimon Music University when he was only 16. At the age of 18, he graduated with a Jazz…
One of the great soul singers, older brother of one-time Temptations lead singer David Ruffin, Jimmy died last Monday in a Las Vegas hospital at the age of 78. Probably best known for his big hit “What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted” in 1966 (the song went to Number 7 in the Billboard Pop Charts), he…