Jazz

Guido May – “Flow”

Guido May – “Flow”

Guido May is one of Germany’s top Jazz and Funk drummers with a list of credits that include the “creme de la creme” of the international jazz world. Perhaps best known for his long term collaboration with funk icon Pee Wee Ellis, Guido sees this album as a tribute to both Pee Wee and their 25 year long musical journey.

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Joe Farrell – “Inferno” – live

Joe Farrell – “Inferno” – live

Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea’s Return to Forever.

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MTJQ – “Perfection”

MTJQ – “Perfection”

MTJQ is led by pianist Kenneth Berkel and Saxophonist Niko Zeidler along with Alex Will and Johannes Koch on bass and drums. The quartet’s repertoire is stylistically rooted firmly in the jazz tradition while at the same time looking forward.

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Terry Gibbs Dream Sextet – “4am” – live

Terry Gibbs Dream Sextet – “4am” – live

Terry Gibbs is one of the most legendary musicians in the world. He has seen and done it all. He has played with some of the greatest musicians in jazz history such as: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Mel Torme, Buddy DeFranco, Tiny Kahn and many more. He also conducted tv shows for Steve Allen and Regis Philbin.

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Farrago – “Glossolalia”

Farrago – “Glossolalia”

Our project is an attempt at finding a common ground for our different musical capabilities and means of expression, one of us being an improvisational saxophonist, and the other a classical pianist.

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Della Reese – “One of a Kind – live”

Della Reese – “One of a Kind – live”

Extremely multifaceted and extraordinarily successful. These attributes fit hardly any singer better than Della Reeese. This jazz concert “one of a kind” is the only ever released “live” production of the singer Della Reese. Their accompanists were among the first guard of LA jazz musicians. As a listener you have the feeling of sitting in the middle of a jazz club.

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Mia Brentano’s Summerhouse

Mia Brentano’s Summerhouse

Mia Brentano’s first two albums, with their diverse, stylistically very free compositions which defy all descriptions, hit the nerve of the times: in the USA, both made it onto the annual “want list” by the classical music magazine Fanfare, while the second also received a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

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By The Way – “Time For Blue”

By The Way – “Time For Blue”

Founded in 2019, the trio’s roots go back to the University of Music and Dance in Cologne where pianist and educator Frank Wunsch came together with two ex-students, vocalist Emese Mühl and guitarist and composer Christina Zurhausen.

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Altfrid M. Sicking – “I AM”

Altfrid M. Sicking – “I AM”

With I AM, Altfrid M. Sicking has fulfilled a long-cherished wish during the pandemic forced break: After decades as a sideman, permanent soloist in the Götz Alsmann Band and as a university lecturer in Münster and at the Folkwang in Essen, the vibraphonist and marimba specialist has rounded up a few favorite colleagues to record an album under his own name exclusively with original compositions.

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Bending Times – “Songs of Faith / Glaubenslieder”

Bending Times – “Songs of Faith / Glaubenslieder”

There can hardly be a more fitting time for the album “SONGS OF FAITH – Glaubenslieder”, Bending Times’ presentation of arrangements and compositions based on chorales which, for centuries, have given solace and encouragement to countless people throughout every imaginable crisis. Lines like “He will find paths your feet can follow” or “who freely helps us in this time of need that has befallen us” have a special echo in these insecure times.

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Mareille Merck LARUS – “Fadenschlag”

Mareille Merck LARUS – “Fadenschlag”

With there way of playing together and being focused on dynamics the three musicians create atmosphere and space. Sometimes you feel hugged by warm sounds, nearly weightless, and then you find yourself in the middle of a hurricane where you don’t know what is up or down and the feeling of speed roars in your ears.

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