“You choose the songs you love doing… I love the whole spectrum, swing, ballads, bossa nova, everything.” says Netherlands-born singer Wilma Baan. Her new album has a fascinating backstory. Wilma Baan, the Netherlands-born jazz singer, is in the prime of [...]
This is a new band to me, despite it being their third album. I have come across the leader briefly, in other environments, but not the other musicians. It’s worth going through them if only to point out the varied [...]
“La Fòla de l’Oca, an ancient and surreal refrain, a wild goose chase, is an ironic rigmarole that my grandmother would repeat when I was a child and that for me has the smell of the earth, of our countryside, [...]
