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….
The German Jazz Price 2024 is upon us. The award ceremony will take place on April 18th at the E-Werk in Cologne. You can find the list of nominees below. Live acts during the ceremony are Kenny Barron, Cologne-based saxophonist Angelika Niescier in a duo performance with Alexander Hawkins, and the Omer Klein Trio. The…
We’ve been following Jarrod Lawson and his incredible career ever since his very first album was declared our soul album of the year back in 2014. We covered his excellent shows in Paris and Berlin in 2015, his “Be The Change” album was our record of the year in 2020 and we last saw him…
It was a double-bill last night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center with the Whispers and Gladys Knight performing at the venue’s Prudential Hall. Celebrating 52 years in the business and still going strong, the three remaining founding members of the group, the Scott twins Walter and Wallace and Leaveil Degree, took us on…
It was a funny, but much deserved coincidence, that the award winners of this year’s prestigious German Record Critics’ Award were announced yesterday, the day of pianist Nitai Hershkovits‘ performance at the stunning Beethovenhaus in Bonn. His album “Call On The Old Wise” was one of the Record Of The Year Winners. This, his solo…
The grooving, much faster than usual version of “My Funny Valentine” very well describes singer Chris Bennett‘s artistry: she is not settling for the tried and tested American Songbook and change, like she said, is the only constant in life. After a pretty quick, Las Vegas-style “All Of You” as the opener to her first…
19 year old Berlin-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Lautaro released his second album “AUTONOMIA” last Friday. We’ve already praised his four singles which came out in the last couple of months as a preview. This is really a pretty surprising output for such a young artist since it has a lot of ingredients…