By Bill Buckley, Soul & Jazz & Funk Lauren Henderson is a New York based jazz singer whose latest album ‘Musa’ is garnering plenty of attention from the savvy jazz stations and specialist streaming/podcast services. Read more here.
By Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk We’ve known about Tulsa-born but Nashville-based singer/songwriter Dara Tucker since 2009 when she debuted with ‘All Right Now’. That was followed by ‘Souls Said Yes’ – another collection of covers and originals that had critics making comparisons between Dara and artists as diverse as Carole King (for … Read More
By Bill Buckley, Soul And Funk And Jazz RICHIE GOODS is an acclaimed US jazz bassist with an impressive list of credits. He’s played with people like Milt Jackson, Ruseel Malone, Brian McKnight, Walter Beasley, Sting, Whitney Houston and the Manhattan Transfer. More recently he was on the bassist’s stool for Robin McKelle’s ‘Alterations’ album … Read More
By Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Soul For her ninth album, ‘Alterations’, US soul and jazz chanteuse Robin Mckelle has chosen to do something very different to her previous recordings; she’s chosen to record a set of covers – though not just any covers. The song selection on ‘Alterations’ (with one exception) is drawn … Read More
By Bill B. Soul and Jazz and Funk Listeners to the more savvy soul and jazz stations over the Christmas period would have heard a new, gorgeous version of Joni Mitchell’s ‘The River’ from soul/jazz chanteuse ROBIN McKELLE. Not a Christmas song, per se, it does reference the festival and the sentiment, the sad tenderness … Read More
by Charles Waring, Soul and Jazz and Funk “Life happens while you’re a jazz singer,” laughs Vanessa Rubin, explaining her long absence from the world of recording. For those mystified by her sudden disappearance back at the dawn of the 2000s, she says “I never stopped singing,” adding, “but you can’t be on stage all the time. I’m happy to … Read More
Bill B, Soul and Jazz and Funk Detroit’s KATHY KOSINS pleased the soul and jazz fraternity with her early 2018 long player ‘Uncovered Soul’ … proper grown up music. Live shows and some choice singles and remixes have kept Kathy’s stock nice and high. Amongst those re-mixes was Brian “Mr SoulHouse” Power’s re-imagining of Kathy’s … Read More
