Posted by admin on 09 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Music, Uncategorized
It has finally been released, the debut album A Strange Arrangement by US-soulmusic-sensation Mayer Hawthorne. The white wunderkind from suburban Detroit/Michigan is presenting an album full of unbelievably superb soul music, in fine tradition of Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson and Curtis Mayfield. Exactly these artists plus Smokey Robinson and Lamont Dozier were named by [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 08 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Music
The legendary “Soul Train” was especially in the 1970ies one of the most popular shows on television for outweighing African American people. For more than 35 years and at least 1000 episodes, “Soul Train” had them all: James Brown, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Al Green or Aretha Franklin, to name just a few, they [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 29 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Music
We feel very sorry for the loss of one of Americas greatest Jazz composers and producers of all time. With his work, George Russell was next to Rudy van Gelder and Teo Macero one of the most influential producers who was involved into Jazz music.
In all the years he worked with several great artists like [...]
Posted by Markus Muffler on 18 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Concerts, Music, Uncategorized
This year’s program of the Montreux Jazz Festival once again is fantastic. Every year Claude Nobs seems to surpass himself with his festival. Nowhere in the world, you can see and listen to so much high quality music in such a great setting.
I was lucky to spend two unforgettable concert nights in Montreux last week. [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 17 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Design, Music, Uncategorized
Some time ago, my girlfriend discovered the great website www.hardformat.org, a blog about music and design. On this page you can find great picture galleries about record covers from music genres like Jazz and others and much information on the photografers and designers of these pieces. Hardformat exists since two years and was founded by [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 14 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Concerts, Music
Last Friday the long waiting came to an end. After six years of silence they finally stood together on one stage again. It’s the band that in the 1990ies like no other band influenced especially the british pop and rock music for ever. I’m talking about Blur. And there could not have [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 09 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music
You know the feeling when you really need to get hold of a song and you can’t think of anything else anymore? Or, you re-discover long forgotten artists and records that aren’t available in your local record store and you don’t want a lousy mp3-file? The first thing you might do in this case is [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 22 May 2009 | Tagged as: Concerts, Music
Jazzahead has taught me something very interesting: all of the participants appear to belong to one big family and support each other as much as possible. I find this remarkable, especially nowadays when it is not easy for all of the jazz musicians out there to get gigs and for the myriad event organizers to [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 18 May 2009 | Tagged as: Music, Uncategorized
Around three weeks ago, the jazz fair “jazzahead” took place in Bremen / Germany for the fourth time.
Over three days more than 250 exhibitors from many different countries including Spain, Canada and Finland, promoted their music, artists, agencies and events. Nearly all of the important cultural institutions from the field of jazz music attended the [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 15 May 2009 | Tagged as: Music, Uncategorized
There are some records that are just so great that you have to listen to them again and again for weeks and weeks, and Avishai Cohen Trio’s “Gently Disturbed” is a perfect example.
Avishai Cohen, an Israeli, has a very impressive musical career. He has played with many great musicians, including Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin and [...]
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