CD & Audio for Musicians

Almost 50 years. An eternity. Lyndon B. Johnson was still president, the Beatles were on the stage for a concert for the last time and the film My Fair Lady won eight Oscars. Half a century. Dave Lieb...

For Enrico Pieranunzi and Rosario Giuliani, their reflections on the music of Duke Ellington provide a vital impulse for a musical process in which they re-imagine the Duke's music, make it contempora...

In 1999, the jazz pianist Hans Lüdemann from Cologne met the balafon player Aly Keita from the Ivory Coast during a trip to West Africa. Since they hit it off musically right away, they founded Trio I...

Hold your breath and dive into an underwater world far from the stresses of daily life, with extraordinary creatures gliding weightless through the endless blue. Your ears can also experience such mom...

Ullmann, one of the most active and inquisitive saxophonists in the German jazz scene and the pianist Hans Lüdemann had both experimented independently with microtonality. The music of mikroPULS lives...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Trio Ivoire's unique synthesis of African and Western music, Hans Lüdemann and the other members of the trio came up with a very special project that expanded the...

MORE THAN SPECIAL In his 74th year, renowned keyboardist, prolific composer and venerable bandleader Joe Zawinul shows no signs of slowing down. A living legend whose most popular tunes - Mercy Mercy...

His name has been familiar for some time to knowledgeable fans of music. No matter whether the musical jack-of-all-trades Karim Ziad, born in Algeria in 1966, is accompanying Cheb Mami or helping out...

You don't need to be a jazz fan in order to immediately associate the name of Joe Zawinul with a whole list of melodies and sounds. The native Viennese is one of history's most productive jazz musicia...

With one foot in jazz and the other in a wild range of other styles, this Swiss group has evolved a unique musical identity. Influences from cool and electric jazz co-exist with elements of pop, rock,...

The arrangement of the instruments and technical equipment alone was unusual when the two much-discussed soloists Lionel Loueke (guitar, vocals) and Ziv Ravitz (drums) performed together in a club in...

Nicholas Lens, a Belgian composer of contemporary music, is known particularly for his operas. One of his earliest works is the music drama Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem, the first part of his trio...

Three-time ECHO Jazz Award winner Sebastian Sternal has come full circle with his new recording Turning Point. At the same time, the pianist is once again breaking new ground as composer and arranger...

Jacob Karlzon & Rhani Krija - MOSAIC The music of Jacob Karlzon and Rhani Krija is as varied in color and shape, as geometrically stimulating and exemplarily figurative as a mosaic. The two musicians,...

LOST SONGS – 14 previously unreleased works by Mikis Theodorakis Arranged and performed by Henning Schmiedt To mark what would have been Mikis Theodorakis' 100th birthday on 29. July 2025, Intuition i...

Mikis Theodorakis – Private Recordings (2CD) Intimate Sound Documents of a Musical Genius of the Century To mark the 100th anniversary of Mikis Theodorakis' birth and the official Year of Commemoratio...

TRIO IVOIRE – Resurrection – 25 Years of AfroEuroJazz Music Without Words – A Unique Story and a New Beginning An Ensemble Without a Model – Since its founding in 1999, TRIO IVOIRE has been truly one-...

BETWEEN stood and still stands for the simultaneity of things that are really mutually exclusive (Peter Michael Hamel, 2005) Originally we wanted to call the project B.A.C.H., Peter Michael Hamel re-c...

BETWEEN stood and still stands for the simultaneity of things that are really mutually exclusive (Peter Michael Hamel, 2005) Originally we wanted to call the project B.A.C.H., Peter Michael Hamel re-c...

At the end of the 1960s, a group of excellent musicians formed in Germany that soon attracted the attention of the music world. They all not only came from different countries of the world, but also h...

A memorable live recording of a unique encounter of jazz and contemporary classical music is available again. Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki appeared live in concert in 1971 at the Donaueschingen...

Who or what is Trance Groove? The inevitably intensive experience of listening to the CD Meant To Be Like This reveals profound tabla beats and similarly high-dosed rhythmic excesses, broad bass lines...

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