Intuition

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...

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...