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After a couple of weeks with a bout of flu-like symptoms or whatever you want to call it, we’re looking forward to visiting the Enjoy Jazz Festival for the very first time this year. Coming up this week in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, and Heidelberg: ganavya, Makaya McCraven, the mighty Abdullah Ibrahim, and Jazz is Dead with…
Berlinale 2019: Who’s Got The Look
Let’s face it: sometimes you can only live through a movie because the main character just has the right charisma and look. Gina has chosen her top three male actors at this year’s festival. In all three cases though, the respective movies were pretty strong, too. In Panorama, the disturbing “Kislota” (“Acid”) by Russian director…
Mamas Gun – Cure The Jones
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…
Jon Regen – Higher Ground
I think I have lived long enough now with New York-based singer, pianist, and songwriter Jon Regen‘s new album “Higher Ground” and the good thing about it is that I have returned to listening to the eleven tracks over and over again. This is not one of those albums you listen to just once and…
Berlin Jazz: Jazzfestival 1984
The Berlin Jazz scene is constantly looking for new ways to get the music across and to spur interest in this expanding music niche that seems to be growing with each day. Here is a new festival with a pretty interesting theme: four musicians, which have chosen Berlin as their main driving force and which…
Soul On The Real Side #10
Here we go again. The 10th installment of Real Side Records’ soul compilation is upon us, with 20 tracks recorded between 1967 and 1981, including a lot of totally forgotten gems, unheard of material, and legends like Bobby Womack, Al Hudson, Willie Hutch, or Betty Lavette. Womack’s “Give It Up” from 1979 opens this wonderful…

