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Schmidt Happens! And all that nearly weekly in the Berlin Jazzclub "A-Trane" where the pianist has played more than 500 (!) concerts in the last ten years. Musicians as David Liebman, Jimmy Halperin, Judy Niemack, Mark Murphy, Lee Konitz, Jasper van’t Hof, Til Brönner, Paul Brody are just a small extract of a huge list of guests on this recording.
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Arranging of jazz standards in a modern way by putting them into new harmonically sounds and lard them with spicy odd-meter and unusual rhythmic figures. That would explain the strength and the uniqueness of the Doug Johnson Trio.
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Virtuosity, elegance and when she sings: pure passion! How can somebody combine Classical music, Jazz and World Music in such a way that one could think this new kind of style was just invented for her? Her music is no crossover, no mixture. It's a pure, compact form of energy - positive like an ancient secret medicine from South America!
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Johannes Berauer founded his „Tiny Orchestra” during his time as a student in Boston (2005). Since then the octet has functioned as a mouthpiece for Berauer’s Jazz compositions with which he realises his vision of contemporary Jazz.
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Among the many bands in the blooming European blues scene, The King Bees have earned a reputation as a top notch live act and - as this CD proves – as excellent recording artists. While being true to their roots and the Chicago and West Coast style blues tradition, most of the eighteen songs on this recording are self penned originals...
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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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Melodious, partly rocking themes and impulsive improvisations without a musical ego that pushes itself to the fore. Above all the band's focus is on the flow, which is the complete devotion to making music together. Modern Jazz with cheerful easiness based on a groovy rhythm section.
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On "a Little closer" SCHENIS has created a wonderful collage of electro pop, jazz and contemporary songwriting. Like an earwig voice and sound design creep in the auditory canals and from there to the synapses of the leg muscles in order to put the limbs into motion.
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Brand-new album of Vince Weber. By blazing Blues-fire and lively Boogies Vince shows - among his very special piano sound - completely new musical interpretations and compositions.
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Elements of electronic music, lots of improvisation, tuneful piano playing, weird guitar chords, bizarre basslines, spherical viola and oboe sounds and some vocal experiments. EKG masterfully succeeds in suspending conventional musical definitions.
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James Weidman's music fits into the modern mainstream of Jazz without being predictable. With original chord changes and voicings, his mastery is demonstrated with various changes in rhythm and time. An album which gets better with each repeated listening...
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The singer Marina Zettl and the pianist Michael Kahr represent the creative minds behind the project miss | mister. Their latest album bittersweet features a confluence of jazz and pop-elements on the highest musical level, focusing on a fusion of a chamber musical sound and danceable grooves.
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Norbert Schneider's R&B Caravan was THE discovery of the renowned jazz festival Ascona 2007. With an irresistible style mix of Rhythm & Blues, Soul and a little bit of Folk the band can even rock a nursing home. 83 minutes of pure musical vitality in very good quality of sound and video!
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The Vienna Clarinet Connection thrills their audience with a silky-soft Clarinet sound, a vibrant basset horn and the straight Jazz sound of a gloomy bass clarinet. Electrification by woodwinds? It's possible...
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With her new album the 26-year-old singer and composer Àngela Tröndle, accompanied by a five-member band along with a string quartet, once again exhibits her extraordinary musical talent. "Eleven Electric Elephants" is a veritable poly-stylistic album including elements of Singer-Songwriting, Jazz, Classical Chamber Music and Folklore.
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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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Jangeun "JB" Bae - native of South Korea - shows her remarkable virtuosity on "GO+". With her masterful understanding of Blues and improvisation the gifted arranger demonstrates an absorbing, thoughtful and receptive approach to music, influenced by Classical music as well as Korean Folk music and Rock.
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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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A woldpremier: For the first time you can hear Brazilian music with violin as lead instrument played in this unique way. Rudi Berger who has worked with Toninho Horta and Yuri Popoff for many years has developed a special relation with the Music of Minas Gerais and adds new colours to this unique brazilian music style.
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Uli Soyka - Jose Maria Saluzzi - Juan Garcia-Herreros
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The Snow Owl Quartet opens up a wide spectrum of musical vocabulary to the listener, influenced by The Snow Owl's South American roots followed by growing up in the "melting pot" of New York City. Blues, Funk, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Rock, Salsa - you name it.
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With "Art of Contrabass Guitar" Juan Garcia Herreros alias "Snow Owl" features an impressive mixture of the past ,present and future of Modern Jazz. Notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for his use of a customised 6-stringed Electric Contrabass the native born Colombian Bassist yet again forges new directions in contemporary musical design.
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The CD "like it is" is a sometimes warm and subtle, other time rousing mixture of blues, old school R&B and swing
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Following his debut album “Open Ended” (2007), the young Austrian musician and composer Philipp Nykrin is back with his second release “Common Sense”. The spacious structures and stirring music rich in contrast surround Nykrin’s creative piano style.
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Velvet Elevator brings back unforgettable film melodies of the 50s, 60s and 70s in own arrangements for the ensemble.
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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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"Souldeep", the creation of Shelia Michellé (Nashville /TN) and Helmut Reiter (A), is a cross border project, in which the voice of Shelia Michellé interprets R ’n’ B and Soul in an incomparable way. The musical background ranges from R ’n’ B to Pop and mixes „White & Black Music“ to a completely new style.
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The ROCKING BIRDS are in business since 2004. They play an explosive mixture of Blues, Rockabilly, Country and Bluegrass. Leaning their sound on the historical Sun-Studios in Memphis (Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, etc.), the Rocking Birds impress with a great stylistic variety and with their amazing enthusiasm.
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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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For The Greatest And Little Things“ fluidly combines intricate jazz harmonies with hot Latin rhythms and Eastern and Balkan melodies. The richly textured album creates an artistic arch from ballads in shades of blue to entertaining, foot- tapping uptempo numbers, all with a dose of whimsical humour.
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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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krenn + wakolbinger. + music + spirit + audience + interaction. + guitar + drums + playfulness + spontaneity. + acoustics + electronics + moments + experiment. + compositions + creation + energy + patience. + johannes wakolbinger + lukas krenn.
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Dirt & Soil connects traditional Jazz standards to free improvisation as well as energetic guitar play to musical sensibility. On Andy Manndorff stylistic limits are as binding as national borders on migrating birds.
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The members of the acoustic piano trio around the Austrian pianist Volkard Iglseder have dedicated themselves to European jazz. In a fascinating way they combine the most different influences from classical music, jazz and rock to a very intense and immediately sensible music. A linking element between modern jazz and classical music...
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Norwegian singer-songwriter Harriet Müller-Tyl skillfully combines Folk Music with Jazz, sometimes with a decent side step to popular music.
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Debut album of the band Lorelei Lee (consisting of Sonja Romei and Palm) with bittersweet and sensual sound aesthetics. The examples of the elegant and subtle electro songs are found in the burlesque Revuemusik of the 1920s to the 1940s, resulting in a contemporary variation of established styles, a reference to listening music and clubsounds.
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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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With the energetic aid of his daughter Sabine on drums, Michal Hudec on bass and Gine Heiger on vocals Martin Pyrker presents Chicago Blues par excellence..
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Lava flows as long as the temperature is high enough. To make sure of that, one Moroccan and two Styrian world travellers have amalgamated the primitive rocks of their musical backgrounds into new hot sounds of passion.
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The distance between modern post-bop sounds and free jazz suffused with high-tech experimentalism narrows significantly on the new CD Quare from André Matos, a brilliant young guitarist and Portuguese native now living in the United States.
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Native-born Brazilian composer and guitarist Alegre Corrêa impressively links impassionate temperament and hot rhythms to the playfulness of European Jazz.
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A scary-virtuosic opus about modern women and the fascination of evil, presented by actress Maxi Blaha, accompanyied by four great Jazz musicians: Klaus Dickbauer, Juan Garcia Herreros, Emil Kristof und Martin Gasselsberger. With lyrics from Frank Wedekind, Konstantin Wecker, Mark Beneke und Adelbert von Chamisso.
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An eight-string guitar charmingly forms the tender basis, a cello huddles gently against an accordion, while the voice flirtatiously hovers over them. Little bricolages of sound pop up between the tones ensuring invigorating moments. Welcome to the green oasis of "Fikus"!
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Traditional Christmas Music with a new livery. A crossover from Jazz to Pop.
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