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In the 1978 liner notes to House-Boat, Volker Kriegel describes how difficult it was to set up a recording date. Vibraphonist Wolfgang Schlüter was to be featured, but had commitments with the NDR Big Band in Hamburg, Germany; Kriegel was one of Germany’s busiest jazz-rock musicians, as well as cartoonist, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
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China Moses' new EP captures the stellar musical intercommunication that transpired on stage for 4 years throughout Europe and Asia with her 'Nightintales' album. After traversing the Great American Songbook, she now turns her attention to carving out her own terrain. The resulting twelve songs are destined to become new standards. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
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Alive and Jumping (Remastered)
Maybe it’s taking an old warhorse like Avalon and turning it into a thoroughbred, with Cat Anderson’s pulsating screech trumpet heralding the race. Or it could be Hamp’s classic Midnight Sun with its mysterioso vibraphone prelude. ...
Genre: Jazz
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Liberated Fantasies (Remastered)
Liberated Fantasies is the eighth studio album by American keyboardist George Duke. It was recorded and mixed by Kerry McNabb at Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood, California in 1976 and released through MPS Records, making it Duke's seventh and final album for the label. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
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Gershwin & Kern (Octave Remastered Series)
In his original 1976 liner notes, concert impresario George Wein concluded fittingly, “To put it simply, Erroll Garner is a great musical genius.” On this final album released during Garner’s life, he shows yet again his complete mastery of his instrument and his unmatched ability to interpret ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
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Digital remastert! Ein Modern-Jazz-Klassiker für das legendäre Saba-Label. Rolf Kühn - clarinet & bass clarinet, Joachim Kühn - piano, Karlhanns Berger - vibes, Bab Guérin - bass, Aldo Romano - drums. Produced by Joachim Ernst Berendt. Recorded January 19, 1967, at Studio Hamburg. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
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“Brilliant. Brave, naked, intense, raw. Ultimately, that’s what real art is about: when the artist talks about himself and the listener feels he’s hearing his own story.” Star pianist Igor Levit found highest praise for Malakoff Kowalski’s last record My First Piano (2018) and continues today ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
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Ella is a 1969 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and the first of two albums she recorded for the Warner Bros. owned Reprise label. This album continues the theme set on Fitzgerald's previous album, consisting in the main part of cover versions of popular songs ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
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Dynamisch, unkonventionell und authentisch: Der Sound ist dynamisch, die Machart ist alles andere als konventionell.“ schrieb Zitty Berlin über das Debütalbum des Julia Kadel Trios. „Wie auch bei Wollny besteht eine große Kunst dieses Trios darin, unerwartet in heutige ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Rolf Kühn and His Sound of Jazz (Remastered)
Rolf Kühn, geboren 1929 in Köln, aufgewachsen in Leipzig, begann bereits im Alter von acht Jahren Klavier, Musiktheorie und Kompositionslehre und mit zwölf Jahren Klarinette zu studieren. Ab 1948 war er Saxophonist und Klarinettist der BigBand des Senders Leipzig ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Nicola Conte Presents: Cosmic Forest "The Spiritual Sounds of MPS"
“Cosmic Forest” takes us on a spiritual journey through the musical universe of Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Black Forest Music Production), the most important German jazz label of the 1960’s and 70’s. Alongside such younger firms as ECM, Enja, and ACT, its catalogue of around 500 albums ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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20th and 30th Anniversary (Remastered)
Der 7. November 1968 ging als ein besonderes Datum in die von vielen Highlights gespickte Historie der Berliner Jazztage ein. An diesem denkwürdigen Abend besuchte Dizzy Gillespie die Stadt an der Spree, was allein schon ein Anlass zur Freude für jeden Jazzfan war, stellte der unvergleichliche Trompeter damals doch ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
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Quiescence and awakening. Tradition and innovation. Body and soul. Rolf Kühn finds such opposing forces attractive. With his new album "Yellow + Blue", the 88-year-old clarinetist once again improvises and swings his way through uncharted musical territory. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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Von nichts kommt nichts. Wer es sich leisten kann, schon in jungen Jahren auf Distanz zu seinen Vorbildern zu gehen, der muss auf einem soliden Sockel des Lebens stehen. Woher sollte er sonst seine Geschichten nehmen? Natürlich wachsen diese Talente nicht an jeder Straßenecke ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
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Malakoff Kowalski was born to Persian parents in Boston, grew up in Hamburg, and lives in Berlin today. His first solo album Neue Deutsche Reiselieder was released in 2009. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung described his 2012 album, Kill Your Babies—Filmscore for an Unknown Picture, as “an album ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
