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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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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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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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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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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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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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A forward thinking vocalist and composer, Tammy Scheffer presents an exciting debut album that features her original compositions and arrangements. A cutting edge album, straight from NYC's vibrant contemporary jazz scene.
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In one of the most arresting performances of the year, this duo brings a freshness and creativity to their interpretations of standards, jazz classics, and originals that puts each song in a new light.
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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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This New York-based, Japanese flute specialist maintains a classical like purity and meditative aspect to her tone throughout an ambient yet supple contemporary jazz set of mostly originals with personnel including guitarist Ben Monder, drummer Greg Hutchinson and guest Greg Osby. *** - Jazzwise magazine UK, Oct.2010
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J.Lepore has been providing a strong foundation for acclaimed artist Greg Osby since 2008. An impressive collection of 8 inspired originals by this emerging bassist in New York, superbly supported by Tim Collins(vb), Lance Murphy(ts), Nasheet Waits(dr).
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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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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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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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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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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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“PRAIA”, establishes a new path for the jazz vocalists genre, where the singer is equally important as the musicians that accompany her; who have the freedom to express their own personality. It is clearly a strong compositional statement and Serpa breaks all rules as a vocalist, composer and improviser.
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Combining virtuosic skill and an untethered sense of adventure, Michael Pinto provides both innovation and tradition to his ensembles and those of which he is a guest.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The epic compositions of Philipp Nykrin show an european approach to the art of Trio and make a dense interaction possible. With Matthias Pichler and Peter Kronreif he has chosen one of the best rhythm section of the country and they complete the great piano trio to a high end ensemble. (Chr. Cech)
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Since her band Mosaik was founded, the main focus of Graz based singer Ángela Tröndle were always her original compositions. Her voice is clear and so certain that even the hardest compositions of her, with or without lyrics, are sounding effortless. A very fine young musician with an exciting Debut recording.
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The debut-cd of the saxophonist, known as a member of the internationally famous group „Café Drechsler“, helds almost only his own compositons and shows a very different side of him.
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