18 Nov, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
Since I got my hands on the reissue of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” in the early 2000s, the songwriter and singer Leon Ware has also been well known to me. No wonder, after all, the musician, born in Detroit in 1940, wrote the most songs for this album...
9 Sep, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
Admittedly, “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” is not really a rare pearl. The composition of Elvin Bishop was even a hit of several interpreters, last also of Rod Stewart. A far larger throw landed with the melodiösen classic however 1985 the Country Pop...
27 Aug, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
What German films were in the 50s also stood for the music of some German orchestras and bands: they wanted to get the war out of their heads – with harmless films and world music. This is probably the reason why so many German formations and musicians...
23 Jul, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
If a song could smell like something – “Never My Love” would exude the sweet scent of good marijuana. No wonder, since the hit of the American band The Association also carries the production year 1967 … … in the middle of the flower...
15 Jul, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
Music for the convertible. For a ride, somewhere along a coast. Cruise, look – and enjoy the wonderful melody of this title. Torcuato Mariano is a guitarist and songwriter born in 1963 in Buenos Aires – and a fixture on the smooth jazz scene. Smooth Jazz...
13 Jul, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
Since the early 70s Michael Franks has been providing the music community – and with it me – with very special music. Songs that are somewhere between jazz, folk and pop … … and mostly highly melodic and often provided with complex arrangements...
7 Jun, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
“Department: Smooth jazz from the band Special EFX. But: The New York guitarist, composer and producer Chieli Minucci founded the band in the early 80s … … at a time when the genre of smooth jazz didn’t even exist. Since 1984 he has released...
5 Jun, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
On his 80th birthday, trumpet master Herb Alpert released a new album in 2017: “Human Nature”. No weak CD … … and for such an elderly gentleman it sounds surprisingly fresh. Unfortunately also a bit too polished, too smooth and therefore a bit...
5 Nov, 2018 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
It must have been in the year 2000. I just quit my job as editor-in-chief of a music magazine and after three and a half years in permanent employment I felt like a new person again. Free and independent. In keeping with this new attitude to life, I bought a used...
