The Süddeutsche Zeitung hailed Johanna Summer's performance at the Young Munich Jazz Prize in 2018 as "a small sensation": for just under an hour, the pianist, born in Plauen in Saxony in 1995 and now living in Berlin, had encompassed a whole gamut from enjoying the harmonic and rhythmic ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Ihr vor zwei Jahren erschienenes, schlicht mit ihrem Namen betiteltes ACT-Debütalbum bezeichnete Laila Biali als ihr erstes, das sie „voll repräsentiert“. Hier tritt eine markante, vielseitige Songwriting-Persönlichkeit zutage, die sich nicht in eine Schublade zwängen lässt und ihren Jazz ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
“This isn’t about reproducing an original, it’s much more like a translation. When I absorb and adapt influences and when I write, I follow my own path – and that allows me to be myself. It’s a process from which something new and contemporary can emerge.” This is how Wolfgang Haffner describes the artistic approach ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The small Baltic nation of Estonia is internationally renowned for its singing traditions. Though originally a defiant celebration of its own identity in the face of past adversity, it’s also a reflection of a country that’s been looking to the future with a new freewheeling assertiveness. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Andreas Schaerer’s recent projects have established him at the forefront of the creative jazz scene in Europe. The Berne-based artist’s debut on the label, the revolutionary orchestral work "The Big Wig", a commission from the Lucerne Festival, was followed by a quartet formation with Michael Wollny, Vincent ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Only very few musicians are as well versed in both, classical music and jazz as the Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. With the acclaimed 'Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen', he now continues his classical journey. Following the album "Mozart, Bernstein, Lennon" which got nominated for ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1989-1937)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
You can already hear the first notes of 'Speaking Sound': With German piano great Joachim Kühn and Mateusz Smoczyński, the violinist of the highly acclaimed Polish "Atom String Quartet", two musicians have come together who, without many words, click in a real magical way and inspire each ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Trance, ritual, mysticism, psychedelia, magic...however one chooses to describe the way that North-African 'gnawa' music affects people, there can be no denying the fascination for it which reaches right across the world. Morrocan gimbri-player and singer Majid Bekkas is one of it's most dazzling ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The new album by vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy is a reflection of her very own understanding of jazz - with pieces by Swedish composers on the one hand, and of American jazz and song greats on the other. The piano seat of her new band is now, after Esbjörn Svensson and Jacob Karlzon, manned by ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Gripping orchestral score with jazz core: A dramatically varied and visionary cross genre journey. The 34-year-old Bergen-born tenor/soprano saxophonist-composer Marius Neset presents his new recording Viaduct and makes his boldest, most restlessly diverse statement to date. On his fifth album for ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"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
Subgenre:
"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
