"A meltdown of big band sound with house and techno music." (Süddeutsche Zeitung) With an average of 120 concerts a year, throughout Europe and visiting America, Asia and Africa, the Jazzrausch Bigband is one of the busiest big bands of Europe. With "power, groove and enormous stage presence" ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
The studio album "4 Wheel Drive", a collaboration of four stars of European jazz interpreting the music of Sting, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins, topped the German jazz charts for four months in a row, the following tour further enthused the quartet. ...
Genre: Jazz
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"Overseas" stems from an interdisciplinary performance project combining dance, acrobatics and music by the “Cirque-Nouveau”. Nguyên Lê has written the music, a mix of jazz, traditional Vietnamese music and hip-hop; "Overseas", from ACT is the soundtrack for this compelling vision of change and flux. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
13 swinging winter greetings, which desugar the typical sweet seasonal ringin. With respect, but completely new swing, the Echoes of Swing tie themselves again to the Jazz-tradition and transfer it with great taste, unrelentless taste and impressive imaginativeness ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A concert for the ages: The release of "e.s.t. live in Gothenburg" brings listeners the previously unreleased recording of a concert to which Esbjörn Svensson (d.2008) referred in his lifetime as one of the best that his trio ever did. In this 2001 recording, e.s.t. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
With an average of 120 concerts a year, troughout Europe and visiting America, Asia and Africa, the Jazzrausch Bigband is one of the busiest bigbands of Europe. With "power, groove and enormous stage presence" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), the band equally reaches audiences ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
"Masters of Fog" is a lively and self-confident departure into a world of new adventures in sound. Berglund, Lindström, Hederos and Werliin are not only completely cognisant of their own capacities, they also know what they want. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The tunes are instantly recognizable: well-known standards such as "All The Things You Are", "Over The Rainbow" or "Autumn Leaves". And yet the listener always has the impression of hearing something completely new. On "Painting Music", Danish pianist Carsten Dahl gives his own take on some of the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Karma is an Asian spiritual concept whereby every action inevitably has both physical and spiritual con-sequences. It is the perfect title for this album, since no lis-tener could possibly be indifferent faced with what Black String do. Their music, which combines the complex and the extremely catchy, triggers mental as well as physical ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
My Finnish Calendar (Track by Track Commentary)
Each piece on "My Finnish Calendar" represents a month of the year, and each also exists as an independent artistic statement. And if the storyline might not always be directly apparent from the music, Rantala ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Magic Moments 12 (One World of Music)
One World Of Music. The ACT label has jazz at its core, and an openness to all kinds of musical directions: pop, rock, the music of singer-songwriters and traditional folkloric forms such as flamenco and tango. ...
Genre: Jazz
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From “E.T.” to “Harry Potter” and “Jurassic Park” – Great Music from the Movies for Solo Piano. Austrian jazz pianist David Helbock plays music by multiple Oscar- and Grammy-winning American film composer John Williams. ...
Genre: Jazz
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As you listen to "Flying Like Eagles", an episode from Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" might flicker across your mind, or perhaps a scene from the movie "Easy Rider". And that is because the point of departure for this album is traditional roots music from America, inspired in part by ...
Genre: Jazz
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Accordionist Klaus Paier and cellist Asja Valcic have been making music as a duo for ten years. Their playing has kept audiences delighted and critics enthralled: "Breathtaking," said the magazine Der Spiegel; they are "a captivating match" (The Guardian). During this time the two have recorded four albums which have received numerous awards.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Sometimes fate steps in and changes the course of a life. That’s what happened to Luca Aquino: he was about to go on a “Jazz-Bike-Tour” in the summer of 2017. He’d packed his trumpet and was ready to set off...but then he couldn’t. He had contracted Bell’s palsy, a sudden and acute ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Pannonica (Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IX)
Die „Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic“ widmen sich in der mittlerweile neunten Ausgabe der jüdischen Baroness und Millionenerbin Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Stücke von Musikern, welche die „Jazz-Baronin“ über viele Jahre mit Geld, Unterkunft, Rat und Freundschaft ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Harmonica player Grégoire Maret, born in Geneva in Switzerland and harpist Edmar Castañeda from Bogota in Colombia are two remarkable musicians. The strong musical affinity between them that comes across so vividly in “Harp vs. Harp” is no accident, not least because their backstories are ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
SHALOSH. It means ‘three’ in Hebrew. It is the name of a piano trio but also denotes a lot more than that. For the three Israeli musicians, pianist Gadi Stern, bassist David Michaeli and drummer Matan Assayag, SHALOSH is more than just a band, it is a lifetime's project. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Quiet. It is such a precious commodity, and more so today than ever before. In this music from accordionist Vincent Peirani and singer Serena Fisseau, you can actually hear it. It’s right there in the gaps between the notes, perhaps almost more important than the notes themselves. This music is irresistibly light and limpid, and often very cheerful too. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
A rare gift,” is how the Daily Telegraph describes the artistry that Gwilym Simcock brings to playing solo piano. “I have always enjoyed the challenge to make sure that a piece of music has a nice arc to it,” says Simcock. “It should take you on a journey whether it is composed or improvised.” The outstanding individuality of his playing is what led to him to ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
