Lizz Wright was in town yesterday. She is currently on tour promoting her new album “Shadow”, which will be released on her own Blues And Greens Records on April 12th. She opened her 80-minute set with “Sweet Feeling”, the first single off the album which came out last fall. It was wonderful to hear her…
We have returned to Berlin yesterday. Just in time to see Lizz Wright tonight at Columbia Theater where she will perform songs from her new album “Shadow”, to be released on her own Blue & Greens label on April 12th. Last Saturday, singer Cécile McLorin Salvant graced the stage at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Joined…
Vocalist Hilary Gardner just released her fourth album and this time around, she is heading west. I really like her concept of the cowboy’s life on the trail, singing songs written in the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra. The abum was produced by Eli Wolf and features Justin…
Harmonica player Grégoire Maret just announced a new album for the German ACT Music label: together with Romain Collin, he tackles the music of Ennio Morricone on “Ennio”, to be released on April 26th. Both his 2016 album “Wanted” and his 2020 LP “Americana” received five-paw reviews from Gina. And we still remember his brilliant…
Roberto Carlos Lange, better known as Helado Negro, stopped by in Berlin last night. The packed audience at Neukölln’s Hole44 was in for a real treat. With just bass and drums accompaniment and additional keys/vocals/effects coming from what looked like an Akai Midi, Helado Negro mostly played music from his brilliant new album “Phasor“, which…
Right after his successful tour with Michael League, playing music from their five-paw reviewed album “Where You Wish You Were”, pianist Bill Laurance announces a new album. “Bloom” will be released on April 24th on the ACT Music label and this time around, Bill is supported by The Untold Orchestra, an 18-piece string ensemble from…
While on the train back to Berlin yesterday, we’ve received a lot of new music. Friday release day! So Gina was able to come up with her latest weekly playlist last night. An hour of music which has touched us one way or the other in the past seven days. There is new stuff from…
When Janis Siegel sang “…and the stars forget to shine…” from Johnny Mercer’s “Midnight Sun” last night at King Georg in Cologne, you could hear and feel her immense experience, sovereignty and vocal precision in just those few words. But more than that, she conveyed a passion and a longing which has become a pretty…
Brazilian singer, songwriter, and musician Bruno Berle, who released his brilliant “No Reino Dos Afetos” LP back in 2022, has just announced his sophomore album “No Reino Dos Afetos 2” on Far Out Recordings, to be released on April 5th. After his first single off the album, “Tirolirole“, which came out at the end of…
I first came across Israeli guitarist Yotam Silberstein on his two albums he did for the now sadly defunct label Jazz Legacy Productions: “Resonance” in 2010 and “Brazil” in 2011. There was something unique in his playing, in both his original compositions and the many Brazilian tunes he recorded for “Brazil” and several more he…