„Abstract Emotions" is a reflection of the struggles and complexities I’ve faced over the past year. It’s been a time of loss, overwhelming feelings and confusion followed – feelings that often seemed impossible to articulate. With words, we attempt to define our common human experience, but words can never truly capture the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Music for Two Brothers (Remastered)
The two are to Germany what Joe Zawinul was to Austria: the finest export to the homeland of jazz. Born in Cologne in 1929, clarinettist Rolf Kühn lived in the USA between 1956 and 1962 to compete with the best of the best, but then returned to Germany. Pianist Joachim Kühn, who was born in Leipzig in 1944, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
The final studio album by jazz legend Rolf Kühn is set to be released on December 6, 2024, by MPS. The clarinetist, who sadly passed away on August 18, 2022, had completed recording his final work just weeks before in the legendary Hansa Studios. “Fearless” includes seven original compositions by Kühn, as well as three cover versions. As his biographer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Sunshine of Your Love (Remastered)
Sunshine of Your Love is a 1969 live album by Ella Fitzgerald. Recorded at the Venetian Room, The Fairmont San Francisco, in October 1968. The main body of works performed here are contemporary pop songs from the late 1960s. Originally released on the German found jazz label MPS Records the album was re-issued on CD, with alternative artwork, in 1996 by Verve Records. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
N+OUT Records has unearthed another treasure of Eugen Cicero: „Lullabies“, a trio studio recording from 1995 with Decebal Badila on bass and Ringo Hirth on drums. This album was originally only released for the Japanese market and is now available for the first time. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
After a five year break the “Colossus of Rio” is back with his 14th studio album, taking us on a journey, crossing musical boarders and inviting you to listen not only to groovy soulful songs but also to dive into almost cinematic moods. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
MPS is proud to announce the release of the newest project by Robben Ford and Bill Evans, called Common Ground on September 30th, 2022. The multiple times Grammy nominees Ford and Evans have shared the stage in Europe, North America and even Japan and already released a collaborative album called The Sun Room together in 2019 (earMUSIC). ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
The Best of the MPS Years (Remastered)
When the world-renowned Canadian pianist came to Villingen in 1961, there was a mood of intense excitement all round. Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer (HGBS), former owner of the hifi dynasty SABA who died in 2004, had just set up the first version of his studio, equipped with the most advanced recording technology of the time, above the living-room in his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
In 1971 George Duke, having just recently done his time with the Mothers of Invention, was engaged by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. Beginning in April of that year, Duke made two recordings over a short timespan that on their release in 1973 as a double LP (against the desire of the artists, by the way), ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Which musician of African-French-Blackfoot Native American descent has played with Stevie Wonder, McCoy Tyner, Roberta Flack, Santana, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Weather Report, Chubby Checker, and Larry Coryell? Alphonse Mouzon is best known as a fusion player, but the drummer-percussionist has always displayed ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
A wicked little set from British pianist Eddie Thompson – a player who always wasn't as well noticed on this side of the Atlantic, but who will forever be remembered for this classic date for MPS! The set's got a great criss-crossing of styles – a punctuated way of playing the keys with roots that go back to jazz piano of the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Jamaican Monty Alexander is a man with two musical faces: many know him best as a piano virtuoso and heir to Oscar Peterson’s thrown. On Rass he is a master of electric keyboard jazz-funk heavily seasoned by the musical spices of his homeland. Recorded in Kingston in 1974 with ace local players, Rass features the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Live at the Philharmonie (Remastered)
The third album of the legendary vibraphone player and his Set presents a deep insight into the gap-bridging wizardry from jazz improvisation to early acid-jazzy grooves to psychedelia to swinging humor. Originally released on MPS in 1970. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Legendary drummer Kenny Clarke compared Jean-Luc Ponty to Dizzy Gillespie. Fellow violinist Stuff Smith marveled, “He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone.” Born in 1942, the French violinist transported jazz violin playing into the world of modern jazz. On Frank Zappa’s urging, Ponty moved to the States in 1970. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
At long last this extremely rare “concept LP” by the pianist and arranger Dr. Roland Kovac is available once more. The cover photo is a feast for the eyes, while the music is sheer delight for the ears. Amazingly enough, this music was originally recorded as an advertising gag for an atomic power plant. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Free Jazz Goes Underground (Remastered)
Who is Lyndon Berg, the singer and drummer supposedly on this record? Whoever listens very carefully and with a bit of fantasy may be able to recognize the voice: German rock star Udo Lindenberg. It’s not easy to detect, since there is a second vocalist as well, and the typical Udo characteristics are ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Swiss drummer Charly Antolini is a super-technician often compared with Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson. His play is punctuated by its precision and explosive attack. Beginning his professional career playing in Paris with such New Orleans legends as Sidney Bechet and Albert Nicholas, he graduated to swing and bop. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
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
