CD & Audio for Musicians

Sometimes what is simple is so obvious that nobody notices it. Nobody except Nils Wogram. As incredible as it may seem, if you search the historic Jazz catalogues for a recording with the formation tr...

The degree to which music is hard or soft is certainly no measure by which to judge or categorize music. If playing hard is a sign of quality in Rock, then one must take the term soft with a grain of...

In our fast-moving times, one is often tempted to place too much importance on physical and tempo-ral position. This is as true in music as in anything else. Yesterday's claim no longer holds true tod...

Music And Magic Have Always Been Inseparable From One Another But the magic of any other instrument is not as obvious as that of the Theremin. One must have an affinity to magic in order to simply pla...

For those interested in the edges - where jazz meets the new music of the technologic age creating a new sense of organic sound -- this is for you. Afro Fire marks Eddie Gale's comeback as a bandleade...

What kind of philosophy could be at the bottom of Alony's mysterious logo? Is it the voice that grows alone in heaven? The answer is much simpler. Alony is a duo, consisting of the Berlin-based native...

... this is the real blues of the 21st century. (Mike Shanley, Jazztimes) It is not all that long ago, that guitarist, saxophonist and composer, Elliott Sharp, was one of the protagonists in New York&...

If Frank Zappa was commenting on the jazz canon on account of its funny smells even three decades ago, this sharp criticism is no less appropriate as it applies more specifically to the big bands of t...

Lo & Behold, the name of Berlin-based saxophonist Sandra Weckert's group, refers to an old blues line, meaning so much as come and look with astonishment. One can be astounded by Sandra Weckert in num...

The queen of the Finnish free-bass button accordion, Maria Kalaniemi releases her first internationally distributed solo album, Bellow Poetry. Having a twenty year professional career filled with duos...

2006 is the 10th anniversary of the Accordion Tribe, a collective of five of the world's most distinctive and innovative contemporary accordionists: Bratko Bibic (Slovenia), Lars Hollmer (Sweden), Mar...

I have a big name Eric Mingus can certainly claim that in good conscience. But he does not just have a big name, he does it credit. It does not take a jazz connoisseur to associate the name Mingus wit...

The Berlin-based saxophonist and clarinetist, Silke Eberhard doesn't trivialize Jazz into a style that one has to justify, but despite critical cries, turns it into a hallmark. The title mohnmarzipan...

EL VIAJE, Gabriela´s new musical journey, filled with deep yearning and her ever-evocative imagery, is a potent sonic feast. Beautifully written and sung by the celebrated Argentine singer/songwriter,...

Charlie Mariano, who is now eighty-two, has always been a pioneer of beauty in jazz. Where other jazz musicians cause opposites to collide, working with syncopation and dissonance, he has always searc...

A Frenchman in Berlin. With his confident début album 'Pour la chambre D'Aga', the pianist Thibaut Falk swims against all currents of contemporary jazz, but he does so with so much verve, charm and im...

Peter Giger is one of those musicians who bears within himself the mystery of rhythm. This percussionist, whose contribution ranks with those of Max Roach and Art Blakey as well as with greats of free...

Barbara Buchholz has managed to produce a unique album in which you sometimes even forget you are listening to a theremin. She paints an image of an ocean of sounds in which you can drift around forev...

Sotto Voce is the brand new concept/group/album from the extraordinarily gifted and wide-open mind of, saxophonist/composer/songwriter Roy Nathanson. The group features his fellow Jazz Passengers Curt...

“This album is our jazziest to date”, says Barbara Thompson on her 13th release for Intuition. “… Jon [Hiseman] and I have never really seen ourselves as jazz musicians.  I st...

The music performed by Bilja Krstić & Bistrik Orchestra is a blend of traditional ethno music, A capella songs and ethno grooves with elements of improvisation and modern music approach. Their ai...

Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies is nothing less than a hinge of musical history on which a door to the future opens. Give jazz a chance! The Jazz Big Band Graz is one of those large jazz formations th...

The pianist, composer, and bandleader Florian Ross of Cologne has revealed many different facets of his musical inner life on his previous releases. He is one of the most reliable of those representat...

The antidote to constantly changing modish behavior. On Dome Enders celebrates the physical beauty and mystical transfiguration of the pure note that stands for itself. Projects like Enders Room and t...

Listening to Mario Biondi’s deep, warm and soulful voice it evokes a reminiscence of legends like Billy Paul, Luther Vandross, Isaac Hayes and Lou Rawls. Handful of Soul, his first international...