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.
The programme for the 36th Cully Jazz Festival has been announced today. Located southeast of Lausanne and close to Montreux, the Swiss village will host some great artists again in April. From April 13th to April 21st, several venues will turn into jazz havens. The three locations are: Next Step, Chapiteau, and Temple. Among the…
This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival is my first. I always wanted to go since there is so much to be liked about this festival. First of all, obviously, the programming. This year is another one with an extremely diverse, versatile and eclectic array of artists too numerous to mention here. But what is also…
Saxophonist Jimmy Greene opens his new Mack Avenue album “While Looking Up” with the Cole Porter classic “So In Love”. And once again, from the very start of the disc, his lyricism and intense and emotional playing becomes the main force, like on his previous projects. Aided by guitarist Lage Lund and pianist Aaron Goldberg,…
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…
After preparing for the re-opening of my outdoor business in late May, things have now started to settle in again so I’ll be able to focus more on Gina’s page here. Lots of interesting music has been released in the past six weeks and there will be reviews of new and reissued albums by The…
Pianist and keyboardist Bill Laurance and multi-instrumentalist and Snarky Puppy founder Michael League, who now lives in Spain, are taking their beautiful music of “Where You Wish You Were” to various stages in Europe. The LP, which was released on the German Act Music label, came out in late January of last year and garnered…