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Swingin' 50's style R & B with a touch of Soul.
R & B Caravan was founded in 2002 in Austria with the aim of spreading the joy of blues & swing, as well as to show how fun and danceable jazz can be......
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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 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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"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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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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A successful concert in ORF (Austrian Radio and Television) in Vienna on June 19th, 2004 from Martin Pyrker, one of the most known authentic blues and boogie pianists whose CDs are well known in the USA too, the origin country of this kind of music.
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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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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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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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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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Produced by saxophone wizard Herbert Könighofer and electro-fetishist Norbert Bieber, this album is a precious little gem. Oscillating between enchanting beauty, driving yet subtle grooves and merciless expressionism, ‘Trancefiction’ offers delicious food for head, heart and feet. Featuring some of the most vivid drummers and bassplayers of Austria
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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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One word summarizes the CD Frank Muschalle Live: Devastating! Muschalle’s technical ability, his dynamics and his command of blues piano genres are impressive indeed.
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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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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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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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Together with the former Mojo Bluesband musicians Dani Gugolz, double bass, and Peter Müller, drums, Frank Muschalle plays the jazzy, smooth or groovy R & B piano styles of the 40s and early 50s like no one else on this planet. The groove and the piano are rolling, the Saxophones honk and swing. Prepare yourself to get overjoyed!
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Outstanding CD of congenial musicians who present their music in proper style, creatively and full of enthusiasm. High recommendation for all friends of predominantly instrumental Blues, R & B, and boogie-woogie sounds with focus on the piano and guitar.
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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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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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On the trails of Organ-Heroes like Larry Young Erwin Schmidt transports the rousing grooves of the 50s and 60s into the 21st century. His new Hammond-album “movin’ “ demonstrates that - compared with many other “Hammondists”, who seem to drown in nostalgia sometimes - it is indeed possible to speak a contemporary language.
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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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The music of "BLEU" is a fine mix of lyrically multi-dimensional sounds with experimental improvisation. Stylistic and creative openness defines the trio's musical concept.
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At the end of a long period of touring the :xy-band gave a concert as part of the Jazzwerkstatt Wien 2006. The live recording of this energetic concert provides a very good example of the awesome development of the band since their first cd in 2005. The second CD, „Blue Silk Remix“, is a successful mix of club and artistic components...
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Twelve new compositions from the exceptional trio BLEU, characterised by beautifully lyrical melodies, modern grooves and a creative playfulness, nominated in the category "cd of the year" for the Hans-Koller-Prize 2006.
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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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Stomping boogie woogie and blues with piano, drums, and trumpet.
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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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Austrian all star fusion trio, that is doing their thing in a wide musical area between heavily grooving funk, slick balladry and bashing rock.Guitarist Gerald Gradwohl(THREEO,TANGERINE DREAM) is a versatile instrumentalist,with a lot of colours and sound
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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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A unique performance of two soulmates.
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Traditional Christmas Music with a new livery. A crossover from Jazz to Pop.
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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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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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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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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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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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