Intuition

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...

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...