Merry Christmas From Gina
Gina wishes you a Merry Christmas wherever you are. Woof woof!
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First Two Eugene Record Albums Released
He is best known as a songwriter for timeless songs by The Chi-Lites like “Oh Girl” or “Have You Seen Her” or the successful “Soulful Strut” for Young-Holt Unlimited which later became a hit for his wife Barbara Acklin as “Am I The Same Girl”. Eugene Record left The Chi-Lites in 1976 to record three…
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Gina Celebrates Her 5th Birthday
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.
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Incognito Cover Classic Donald Byrd
“Love Has Come Around”, the Donald Byrd classic from the trumpeter’s Isaac Hayes-produced “Love Byrd” album from 1981, has finally received the cover treatment. It is a sacred song for me so I was a bit hesitant before I listened to it, but the song is in good hands: it has been recorded by the…
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D’Angelo’s New Record Has A Guest Appearance By Gina
It’s a drummer’s record. What Questlove, James Gadson and Chris Dave do with their instruments pushes the music on the long-awaited (14 years) album in all kinds of directions. Together with a sophisticated and cool drum programming, they create some amazingly funky, soulful, shuffling and jazzy tunes here. For me, the album starts to really…
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Cynthia Felton Sings The Nancy Wilson Classics
She is not copying the great Miss Nancy Wilson nor does she want to follow in Wilson’s footsteps: for her fourth CD, singer Cynthia Felton, who is also the founder of the Ethnomusicology Library of American Heritage, pays tribute to one of the best storytellers in music her way. And trying to choose 11 songs…
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New Christmas Music For Your Tree
And just when you thought that everyone has recorded a Xmas album by now, here come Earth, Wind & Fire with their “Holiday” CD which is a nod to their 70s heyday disco/soul sound. You can hear “Happy Feelin’s” again as “Happy Seasons”. One of their biggest hits, “September”, becomes “December”. Yes you might want…
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Cool Jazz And Soul Noir In A New Compilation
The guys from Outta Sight Ltd. have come up with another great compilation of soul-inflected jazz tunes. The CD is called “On A Cool Day. The Soulful Side of Cool Jazz”. And although there has never been an accurate definition of Cool Jazz, it is widely known as coming onto the scene in post-Bebop 50s…
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Nils Landgren Celebrates Xmas in Kreuzberg
It has now become an annual tradition, and a nice and lovely one indeed, to check in at Kreuzberg’s Passionskirche shortly before Christmas when Nils Landgren and his friends take the stage to celebrate the season. Four Christmas albums have now been released, the latest came out this year and features exactly the same personnel…
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Iiro Rantala Has All Strings Attached
Iiro Rantala, the brilliant pianist from Helsinki who is equally at home in Jazz, Classical, and Film score composing, brought his new project to Berlin’s A-Trane last night. His album “Anyone With A Heart”, released earlier this year on ACT, features the croatian cellist Asja Valcic and the polish violinist Adam Baldych. During his first…
