She got all dressed up yesterday for her birthday celebration at one of Berlin’s Christmas markets. She also had an extra sausage and a slice of meat from an organic corn chicken. Earlier that day, she met a lot of her friends while she went for an extensive walk.
Legendary singer, songwriter, and producer William Bell, who released his first record as an 18-year old in 1957 with the Del-Rios and recorded his first album under his own name for the equally legendary Stax label in 1967, returns with a new album in April called “One Day Closer To Home”. The 83-year old Bell’s…
The passion and fire of tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri‘s playing and writing certainly had its artistic and commercial peak with his score for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango In Paris” from 1973, where the Argentinian musician, who was born into a very musical family, merged both his Latin and his jazz influences into a unique style….
We already wrote about Jalen Ngonda back in early July and witnessed his captivating performance at this year’s North Sea Jazz Festival. His debut album is out since two weeks now and we continue to play it almost every day. At this point, we just want to remind you to check him out on his…
Gina has just finished her weekly 60-minute playlist of songs we’ve come back to more than once during this past week. It features a track from the brilliant new EP “Brazilian Indie Hippie Retro” by Haroldo Bontempo, new music by Pat Metheny from his upcoming solo album due in July, another great new track by…
I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of friends and making lots of new ones of course at this year’s jazzahead! trade fair in Bremen. I have registered as a participant for the full four days arriving in town on Thursday and have lined up a lot meetings and talks. France is the partner country…
No, this is not a new name for a girl group. Even though Gina loves playing in the pool, she didn’t really enjoy the little bath to cool her down in this current heatwave in Berlin. While many of the clubs are on a summer schedule or no schedule at all, we are currently listening…