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This group’s music swings both “country” and “western”, without sounding like what most people associate with the term “country & western”. Landscapes and western films served as the basis behind the project Under Western Skies.
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"Day One" blends traditional jazz with psychedelic soul/funk influences, without trying too hard to sound overtly modern. Gillard’s dynamic quartet lays down a sultry New York City mood. Barsh’s electric keyboard styling, reminiscent of Chick Corea, shadows each track.
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New York City based saxophonist and composer Logan C. Richardson is a fresh new voice on the alto saxophone. His full, broad sound, wide intervallic leaps, along side of a dense harmonic approach are just the beginning of a description of Logan's unique sound. Logan's compositions encompass a whirlwind of different sounds and textures...
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Her first record as a leader, "Blueprint", features original music composed by Sevian, which showcases the baritone saxophone as a solo instrument and compositional vehicle. The majority of music was composed on the baritone sax, utilizing the complete range & melodic capability of the instrument, stylistically ranging from hard bop to free form.
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Jacob Yoffee is a unique new voice on the tenor saxophone with a focused tone. Fresh, innovative and forward-looking but always listenable. "Dead Reckoning" is Yoffee's debut as a leader and finds him exploring several methods of composition as well as improvisation.
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After ending a sixteen year tenure with Blue Note Records, Greg Osby returns with 9 Levels, the first release on his new Inner Circle Music label. The sharp movements of Osby's horn and music are intact but the recording speaks of a freshness that is free from the constraints of normal conventions and is articulated by a new band of rising artists.
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DRECHSLER is back with a new line-up and a new album "The Big Easy" in order to sound out the possibilities of so called Nu Jazz.
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c.o.d.e. is a tribute to two central stars of Jazz history: Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. The project can be quite literally described as „global“. 4 musicians from 3 different countries (among them the widely travelled American Ken Vandermark) play together for the first time to provide a new view of this now “classic” music.
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Soundsamples found on a journey between Reykjavik, Waidhofen/Ybbs, Vienna/Floridsdorf, Omsk and Beijing form base and background for Visible jazz. Melancholic weirdly interwoven melodies of saxophone, voice, accordion and guitar rest upon pounding, polyrhythmic riffs of drums & bass, this is the concept of <the monochrome tone>.
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herwig gradischnig, one of the best austrian sxophone players, a long-standing member of the vienna art orchestra and distinguished holder of the hans-koller-prize, has taken his inspiration for ghost trio from the samuel beckett play of the same name. ingenious sidemen: matthias pichler and klemens marktl.
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One of the world´s leading stride, swing and bebop piano players. Seuffert is internationally considered a versatile and multi-faceted jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from early jazz through to bebop.
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The music of DRECHSLER is an irresistible blend of hiphop, drum’n’bass, jazz, r&b, bossa nova, etc. A totally independent and contemporary sound combining the best of acoustic and electronic music that prevents you from sitting in your chairs.
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Christoph Pepe Auer is a saxophonist and composer who writes melodious themes and combines them with harmonics , influenced by musicians like John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Mark Turner and others.
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