Intuition

Oregon, the band which has been existing for more than three decades, is well known for crossing borders of musical genres, combining stylistic means of jazz with those of classical and world music fr...

A lush, lavish celebration of music, full of beauty, grace and finesse. Even after 3 successful decades and prizes to reward their efforts (such as the AFIM ''Indie Award'' and the German ''Jazz Award...

It took these 3 master musicians 26 years to finally make it to the recording room together. And it's a good thing, that van't Hof, Mariano and Swallow never gave up on the idea. Enter Brutto Tempo. W...

Gelungene Klangsynthese von amerikanischem und europäischem Jazz: Auf "Reinventing the World" huldigen Andy Middleton mit Trompetenlegende Kenny Wheeler and Posaunenvirtuose Nils Wogram auf allerhöchs...

The accordion is booming! At every corner, both geographically and musically, the longneglected allround instrument is surfacing. Since its first tour as Accordion Tribe in 1996, this great band has g...

Rolf Kühn hat den Intuition-Katalog in den letzten Jahren mit Aufnahmen bereichert, die höchste Jazzansprüche in jeglicher Hinsicht befriedigen. Ein ausgewogener, homogener Mix zwischen Standards und...

With this album, Jeffar Lumban Gaol and his ensemble are reviving different forms of Batak music. The gondang music for instance, an essential part of every sacred ceremony, was repressed since the Ba...

From exuberance to melancholy, Friesen, Porter and Jones have musically portrayed the whole emotional range associated with that special kind of affection; sensitively, artistically and elegantly. If...

Tribute to Hollywood 'As Time Goes By', 'Singin' in the Rain', 'The Windmills of Your Mind' – now this is musical yearning – in the cinema – and that still means: Hollywood. Charlie Chap-lin, Gene Kel...

The revolutionary of tango, Astor Piazzolla, an internationally acclaimed leading light in his own lifetime, became the epitome and expression of Latin American rhythm, dance and passion for us. Tango...

Music from the Country of bunkers – Albania! Who is Eda Zari? Just have a look at the Cover! And learn, perhaps with astonishment, that this women is the cultural ambassadress of Albania, that she mak...

Music from his home country of Georgia, that means to David Malazonia the synthesis of traditional folklore, an elaborate polyphonic vocal music, and of the Arabian-Persian music of its Muslim neighbo...

Tuba, violoncello and vocals. This sounds like experiment, like highly individual capers in the wake of the avant-garde. To Trio Rouge, however, such prejudice does not apply. For Michel Godard, Vince...

Chinese Music from our time with some traditional origins played by Ma Xiaohui, a master of erhu, a two-string violin an Li Biao, a gifted young percussionist. Sounds full of atmosphere, melancholia a...

After releasing Two Many Frames with the single Times Flies (included twice on Rolling Stone's- CD) followed by Not On The Map with single She Cowboy (played repeatedly on MTV-Europe)— Phonoroid are b...

…away from the mire of homogeneous Eurobop and into the realms of inventive and original small-group jazz. Gramophone On his first Intuition album Blinds and Shades, Florian Ross concentrates entirely...

In November 1998 Charlie Mariano celebrated his 75th birthday on stage with the Würzburg Philharmonic, thereby fulfilling a long and dearly cherished wish: finally get the chance to play with a sympho...

I have been privileged as a jazz artist to have had the opportunity to play with in concert or recordings, some of the great jazz masters such as Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Michael Breck...

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&...