Millions of people are out on the streets this weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. Gina of course was among the crowd – she walked all the way through Mauerpark and back trying to catch the balloons….
Brazilian singer, songwriter, and musician Bruno Berle, who released his brilliant “No Reino Dos Afetos” LP back in 2022, has just announced his sophomore album “No Reino Dos Afetos 2” on Far Out Recordings, to be released on April 5th. After his first single off the album, “Tirolirole“, which came out at the end of…
She liked long walks in Central Park and was very proud of her “Cole Porter” view in her Manhattan apartment. A singer’s singer. Equally potent in the Great American Songbook as in contemporary material. Her love for Brazilian music was endless. The best songwriters were sending her their material so that she could give it her…
He opened with a blues (“Ray Blues”) and from the very first notes, you could tell that 83 year old Michel Legrand still has the guts and the ability to play the piano and lead a classic jazz trio with just bass and drums. On stage at Berlin’s Konzerthaus last night, the maestro also added…
Now it’s Patti Labelle‘s turn. Nine years after her “Back To Now” album, which had her reunited with Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx as Labelle, the legendary singer will release an album of standards. With the occasional song from the Great American Songbook on her individual albums and by including songs like “Over The Rainbow”…
Here comes a singer who defies categorization, who doesn’t want to sing the usual standards because “everything has been said”. That’s what she told me during our meeting on a late Sunday afternoon in a Kreuzberg café. But she does include one or the other better known song in her repertoire, albeit not really what…
Israeli pianist and composer Nitai Hershkovits, who released his ECM debut LP “Call On The Old Wise” last year, will come to Beethoven-Haus in Bonn on October 10th. The album received a five-paw rating from Gina. Nitai is also a member of fellow Israeli saxophonist Oded Tzur’s quartet whose North Sea Jazz performance from 2023…