Though there are many beautiful singing voices in jazz today, Viktoria Tolstoy is one of a kind. A great melodramatist of jazz who is also bipolar, she makes happiness sound fragile and threatened, and bitterness sweet and enchanting.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
When a young jazz musician composes a suite and calls it 'Berlin Kaboom!', it calls to mind the many young guns in the German capital's jazz scene. Saxophonist Max von Mosch, who does exactly this with his first own ACT album, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The zebra crossing outside the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London NW8 is a tourist hotspot, for Beatles fans especially. Far fewer get a taste of what the Fab Four and other legendary bands of the era actually experienced ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
It all goes back to year 1965. Spencer Davis Group was recording a single for the label Phillips Germany after having released its number one hit “Keep on Running”. Alongside the guitarist and a former German teacher Spencer Davis, ...
Composer: Count Basie
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Can a band of today catch the excitement and fire of the swing era? The quartet Echoes Of Swing has proved this is possible since its formation in 1997. Some bands of the 1920s and 30s adopted trumpet, reed, piano and drums, such as those of Lovie Austin and Willie “The Lion” Smith, ...
Composer: Colin T. Dawson, Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky, Oliver Mewes
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Jupiter was the King of all the Gods for the Romans: the Heavenly Father, the bringer of light. It was him you invoked when the goddess of fate had unexpectedly intervened in your life.
Composer: Magnus Öström
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
With 'Running', the Brothers Wasserfuhr are now definitely standing on their own four feet. It has turned out to be their most personal album, they themselves were responsible for most of the compositions, recording and production.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Wollny's magical sound adventure 'Wunderkammer' with an XXL version recorded live with the hr big band at the Deutsches Jazzfestival in Frankfurt in October 2012.
Composer: Micheal Wollny
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
On „Voodoo Sense“ German piano legend Joachim Kühn adds saxophone colossus Archie Shepp to his 'Wüstenjazz' trio. In the center of the album the Coltrane classic 'Kulu Se Mama' is put to the test.
Composer: Various
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
With their second album “Realize!” Three Fall now give their fans something new to enjoy. Nobody else plays like Three Fall, not because they want to be different, but because they are.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
With 'Love Comes To Town' German singer and guitarist Torsten Goods exceeds all expectations - as a composer and musician. Funky summernicght-soundtrack meets smoky jazzclub-swing.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The Sleep of Reason - Ode to Goya
'The thing that fascinates me about Goya is that throughout the course of his life he continually closes in on what he considers to be the essence of being human,' Berlins most interesting guitarist Arne Jansen says about ...
Composer: Arne Jansen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Guided only from her heart, the danish singer Caecilie Norby creates a powerful and thrilling album with her favourite songs and melodies.
Composer: Various
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
This might well be the best Funk Unit that Nils Landgren has had gathered around him since 2010: technically outstanding, this is a group of team players who combine well with a great groove connection.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
ACT welcomes French accordionist Vincent Peirani. His first ACT album 'Thrill Box' feat. Michael Wollny, Michel Benita, Michel Portal and Emile Parisien.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The live recording 'Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic I' provides the proof of what can happen when musicians that have never played together before join forces in unusual situations.
Composer: J.S. Bach, I. Rantala, M. Wollny, L. Mozdzer, L. Danielsson, C. Corea
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Seven Tears a tribute to John Dowland
Intelligent, contemporary and unique: John Downland’s Renaissance compositions in an improvised context between chamber music and jazz.
Composer: John Dowland (1563-1626)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
