Jazz Articles about Dustin McFadden

Emanuel Casablanca: It's Getting Strange

by Phillip Woolever
February 21, 2020

Emanuel Casablanca is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn who displays a classic sense of experience that belies his relatively young age while invoking prime characteristics of iconic blues and soul artists. The result is a solid album that carries more down-home southern-based traits than a metropolitan-manufactured product. The basic sophistication of the smoothly developed opener, “It's Getting Strange," provides a good introduction to his talent as Casablanca shows he can hit the high notes, low register and points in ...