Debussy: 24 Préludes (Remastered)
The 24 Préludes represent what must be the best known cycle of pieces by the Impressionist composer Claude Debussy. The compositions are alive with magic, poetry and depiction in sound. No pianist can approach the demands of their composer more closely ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Klavierspielereien (Remastered)
Eugen Cicero, the man known as ‘Mr. Golden Hands’, continues with his masterful mix of jazz and classical styles, once again expertly accompanied by the crack MPS ‘house rhythm section’ of German bassist Peter Witte and Swiss drummer Charly Antolini. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Other Way Around (Remastered)
In this, the last of the classic MPS Tremble Kids recordings, the kids play a savory mix of time-honored New Orleans pieces, swing and popular evergreens. There's nothing sluggish in the band's spirited rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "Lazy River", ...
Genre: Jazz
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The second in the MPS sessions, this 1973 recording concentrates on many of the pieces made famous by Louis Armstrong's bands. First recorded by "Satchmo's" 1926 "Hot Five" Big Butter and Egg Man appropriately features Oscar Klein ...
Genre: Jazz
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Born in Romania in 1940, Eugen Cicero performed his first piano concert with a symphony orchestra at the age of six. Abandoning his career as classical concert pianist, Cicero pursued his passion of integrating jazz rhythms, harmonies and improvisation with the music ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Trumpeters Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, John Faddis, Palle Mikkebourg, and Mike Zwerin playing together on the same album? Impossible, you say? Well, think again; thanks to the creative vision of the amazing Swiss keyboardist/composer George Gruntz, his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Too Heavy for Words (Remastered)
Tenor sax battles have been an indelible part of jazz, as witnessed by the legendary Coleman Hawkins/Lester Young battles, the classic Dexter Gordon/Wardell Gray albums, and the Rollins/Coltrane "Tenor Madness". Add this 1971 skirmish between James Moody and Al Cohn ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Gittin' to Know Y'all (Remastered)
Recorded at the 1969 Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden, this album features some of the “who’s who” of the US and European avant-garde. Co-founder of the iconic Art Ensemble of Chicago, Trumpeter Lester Bowie was at the forefront of the new music. Jazz guru J. E. Berendt called Bowie’s extended ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Jazz Studio - H.G.B.S Number One (Remastered)
This is a classic – the jazz album that signaled the beginning of Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer’s storied SABA-MPS record company, and pointed the way to the label’s next two decades of creative, beautifully recorded music performed by some of the greatest players in jazz. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Rolf Kühn is one of the great jazz clarinetists, a player who has mastered every jazz genre, from traditional to Avant-garde. Kühn’s estimation of Phil Woods as “one of the greatest altoists in the world” is well grounded. Known as the “New Bird” (after Charlie “Bird” Parker), he won Downbeat’s readers’ poll as top altoist some two ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
If German clarinetist Rolf Kühn has not yet been designated a national treasure, he ought to be. Already a celebrated player in his home country, Kühn migrated to the USA in 1956. The next years saw him recording and playing major venues throughout the States with his own group as well as working with Benny Goodman ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz Made in Germany (Remastered)
This 1978 live recording gathers together some of the most prominent German and international musicians on the German jazz scene. The first of this double album set focuses on the Erwin Lehn Orchestra. Lehn headed South German Broadcasting’s jazz band for ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Gregorianischer Gesang bietet nicht nur einen interessanten Einblick in die Ursprünge kirchlicher Musik und Notation ab dem Jahr 650, sondern die erhabenen Gesänge bieten sich auch für bewusste Momente der Rückbesinnung und Kontemplation an – so liegt es nahe, dass zur Festzeit das Weihnachtsalbum Gregorian ...
Genre: Vocal
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You Better Fly Away - Clarinet Summit Live (Remastered)
During the Swing Era the clarinet was king. Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman led three of the most popular bands of the 30’s and 40’s, yet with the advent of bebop and small-group jazz, the saxophone commandeered the crown, and the clarinet found itself in exile. However, with the advent of the Avant-garde in the 1960’s, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
ill Evans: leader of one of most influential trios in jazz history, invaluable contributor to the model explorations on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. Miles said it best: “Bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano. The way he approached it, the sound he got was like crystal ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
