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DIRECT—MASSIVE—UNFUSSY—AGGRESSIVE The title Forgery refers to the current condition in New York, a city that pretends to be on the pulse of the world but has in fact long since becom...

MACEO goes BIG While Maceo Parker is known around the world for his signature alto sax sound -- an instantly recognizable blast of rhythmically-charged, gospel-tinged soul -- he has never before been...

Monsieur Tuba, Jazz, and the Scorching Heat of Sardinia It has long since ceased to be a secret: jazz has many fathers. Certainly its cradle is in New Orleans, and the contribution of black America to...

A world-class saxophonist who first made his mark during the 1980s with such jazz greats as Miles Davis and John McLaughlin, Bill Evans has continued to explore a variety of adventurous settings as a...

Bill Sheehan, John Novello and Dennis Chambers took eight years time for their new album, but the wait was worth it. The band name Niacin is a pun. Niacin is the scientific term for vitamin B3, which...

On his latest offering, an ambitious orchestral project entitled Revolutions, Beard revisits some of his older compositions with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra, under the direction of condu...

The trilogy is complete; the third CD by Rue Protzer's band Rue De Paris following Quiet Motion (Sony 2006) and New York Slow (Sony 2007) has been completed. Following his tribute to the Big Apple, Ru...

For nearly a hundred and twenty years, jazz has been the flexible quintessence of constant renewal. What is avantgarde today can turn into tradition tomorrow, but anyone who loses sight of the traditi...

Increasingly, European jazz is defined by piano trios. Alongside all the Esbjörn Svenssons and Marcin Wasilewskis, rising piano trios have a harder and harder time finding their own niche. Not so Anja...

Do The Don't (released for the first time in Europe, with five bonus works) is an indispensable gem for every blues fan who regards this music as more than a nostalgic trip to an imaginary past. Blues...

Senzo is nothing less than a masterwork. It is particularly the relaxed anchoring of the spontaneously captured moment in eternity that makes this recording stand out from the masses of piano albums t...

A real stroke of luck – a virtuosic mixture of Jazz, Musica Brasileira, Zydeco, Electronic and Folklore Imaginaire Heinrich von Kalnein, Gregor Hilbe and Christian Bakanic are three musicians from dif...

At first, there is only a piano and nothing else. The touch, spiritually carried away and fateful anchoring in Jazz history with a breeze from Africa immediately reveal the handwriting of Abdullah Ibr...

He will turn 79 on October 9, 2013. That fact that someone has experienced a lot by this age goes without saying. However, this applies more for some people than for others. Abdullah Ibrahim can justi...

Pop? Rock? Jazz? Uwe Dierksen does not know this himself for certain. In addition, he does not want to know or perhaps even define this on principle. His new CD Blue Rock Thrush aims to draw the liste...

The term legend is used exceedingly in our prosaic times. But it is appropriate in every respect when we talk about the South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. Then this giant of a man, who has n...

Effortlessness and beautiful sounds, peacefulness and power, transparency and buoyancy… Those are only a few of the attributes, with which you could associate Dedications by the duo Michel Godard and...

Is he allowed to do that? Associations with the large orchestral works of Frank Zappa strike you when you listen to Big Circle, the latest album by Michael Riessler. That is more than intended too. Ho...

Great things can be created in art when diligence and effort meet passion and skill. In Toka Incognita (Toka = Albanian for Terra/world), all ingredients are combined to create something great: time f...

When Markus Stockhausen composes, he creates a multi-dimensional cosmos from sounds. He succeeds in doing that even with compositions for small ensembles. However, when he does this for a large orches...

A Steinway D, a four square meter large, analog monster. Revered by classical pianists as well as by jazz musicians. At times by singers and songwriters too. A grand piano with the capability of produ...

As one of the very few jazz musicians, Rue Protzer uses a Fender Stratocaster throughout this new album. This is a guitar, which can usually be found in rock music, and which consequently provides a v...

An incredible instrument! Its name is based on the Latin serpens and means serpent. It looks accordingly. Long, winding and bright green with a flickering head, six finger holes, a mouthpiece made of...

More than one-quarter of a century of jazz history: When we now congratulate Rolf Kühn on this 85th birthday with a special release, we are paying special respect to the one of the few globally known...

We can celebrate several anniversaries at the same time with this recording. First, there is the 80th birthday of one of the most significant musicians in this world. We are also reminded of the time...