On her album, ‘1000 Miles From Memphis’, Sheryl Crow takes us back to her formative years in Kennet, Missouri, 100 miles from Memphis, where, as a little girl in the sixties, she learned the honesty and simplicity that would become the foundation of her worldwide success. Her music was shaped by the sounds of her hometown: bluesy soul, with just a touch of Motown. Sheryl’s retrospective is a continuation of that successful career. At the Avo Session she performs her legendary hits as well as songs from her new album.
Jamiroquai plays Avo Session
The British jazz, funk and acid jazz band, Jamiroquai, started out as the most prominent component in the early 1990s London-based acid jazz movement. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock and electronica. Jamiroquai have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1997. At the Avo Session they perform their world-famous hits.
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara play Avo Session
British rock meets afro-sound from Gambia. The sound of a nation with no borders, a place that needs no passport, no visa. This is where the deep roots of African music nourish the raw electric groove of rock and roll, where Gnawa spirit rhythms come up against Chicago distortion, where snaky N’awlins rhythm has a West London howl, and a Sahel Wail.
Razorlight play Avo Session
Razorlight is one of today’s best Britpop bands. After his earlier incarnation as a solo acoustic singer songwriter, supporting bands like The Libertines, bandleader Johnny Borrell fashioned Razorlight as an intense electric rock band with catchy songs and took the band out on the road.
Mary J. Blige plays Avo Session
With over 40 million albums sold worldwide, nine Grammys and just as many albums not to mention the unequivocal title ‘Queen of Hip Hop Soul’: Mary J. Blige is a true diva in the best sense of the word. Her music is as big as her personality and like any true diva this native New Yorker is also a style icon.
Justin Nozuka plays Avo Session
The Canadian singer-songwriter, Justin Nozuka is an exceptional talent. On his debut album ‘Holly’, which has been released in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States, he was compared with such greats as Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley and Ben Harper – even though Nozuka was only 19 years old at the time. His follow up album ‘You I Wind Land And Sea’ was released in 2010 and it proofs that Justin just got even better.
Joy Denalane plays Avo Session
The daughter of a South African father and a German mother, Joy Denalane, was named the ‘Queen of German Soul’ by MTV, but her musical vision and stylistic diversity are more important to her than chart success. Good music runs deep.
Mariza plays Avo Session
Music is language. Nowhere else is that more obvious than in Portuguese, where a single word became the key to an entire culture of music: ‘Saudade’. Happiness mixed with sadness is the blues of Portugal and Brazil, where Mariza also lived for a while, influenced too by the musical rhythms of that country’s popular music.
Tom Principato & Powerhouse play Avo Session
Legendary singer and guitarist Tom Principato gives us blues at its best: relaxed and down-to-earth. He has performed on dozens of blues recordings and is still making ground breaking American music enjoyed by fans the world over.
Gino Paoli plays Avo Session
The Italian canzone needed new input, but what kind? Gino Paoli found the answer by studying italianità closely and critically before he co-founded the ‘Genovese School’ in the fifties, laying the foundation for today’s cantautori scene. Today Paoli is the honoured godfather of all cantautori. He plays peaceful, melancholically beautiful songs that are carried by his sheer lightness. Italianità has been redefined.