Before he started his immensely successful career as Luther Vandross in 1981 with “Never Too Much”, the one-of-a-kind singer released two albums with his group simply called Luther, a vocal quintet which also included Christine Wiltshire, Diane G. Sumler, Anthony Hinton, and Theresa V. Reed. In 1976, the first LP came out featuring Nat Adderley…
Undoubtedly one of the best vocalists around, no matter the genre, Dianne Reeves is coming over to Europe for ten dates, four of which are in Poland and four in Germany. Dianne was last heard on the soundtrack to the 2022 movie “The Woman King” with music by Terence Blanchard. She was also on tour…
Three of the finest soul acts of the 80s are coming over to Europe for a few select dates. Singer Meli’sa Morgan, Glenn Jones, and The SOS Band play three dates in the UK. Meli’sa is also playing a set with Alyson Williams and High Fashion in Lyon in France on April 27th, as reported…
We’re counting the days until “Journey” drops, the highly anticipated first vinyl album of George Townsend and Adam Kaye, better known as Bondax. The Manchester-based duo has already released half a dozen singles leading up to the album’s release, several of which also got remix treatment. We’re especially crazy about the Kareem Ali remix of…
Gina has come up with another one-hour set of new songs which stood out in the past week and which we constantly come back to. There is a dramatic cover of the D.J. Rogers classic “Say You Love Me” in a new version by Jamison Ross. The legendary Tawatha Agee of Mtume fame is back…
James Alexander Bright is currently preparing the release of his third solo LP, due out in mid 2024 on Athens Of The North. Remember he had this brilliant album out last year with Tom Findlay of Groove Armada. They both came up with the still highly resonating “Everything Is Slow” as Bright & Findlay. James…
The great Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Vinícius Cantuária has just announced the release of his next album “Psychedelic Rio” on Sunnyside Records on March 22nd. On this album, Vinícius has teamed up with the Italian duo of Paolo Andriolo (bass) and Roberto Rossi (drums and percussion). Most of the songs on the album are…
Our favorite electronic/jazz/house artist Ben Jacobs aka Crackazat has just announced the upcoming release of two new tracks from a special project. “Galaxy” is a haunting, almost dreamy little two-minute lure boasting with 80s-like synth stabs whereas “Moth Boss” is more of an uptempo house dance track which effectively uses repetitive chords and pads and…
Multi-instrumentalist and producer Audrey Powne from Melbourne is revving up the release of her debut album in April on BBE Records. The title track, “Feed The Fire”, has just come out last Friday. Audrey, who was featured on a 2019 Brownswood Recordings compilation, is not only playing trumpet and keys and writing songs and singing…
Sao Paulo-based singer and songwriter Tim Bernardes is currrently on a short European tour and stopped in Amsterdam last night where he plays two shows in two different venues at the Tolhuistuin. Yesterday’s larger club room was sold out (as is today’s smaller Zonzij) and you could tell from the audience participation that parts of…