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2CD SLIMLINE DIGIPACK.n the 1950s the trad jazz movement spread from pubs to festivals and TV (and inadvertently launched skiffle). This compilation gathers the finest recordings of Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, George Melly, Kenny Ball and Lonnie Donegan alongside other trad’ jazz icons. Record Label: Union Square Music Style: Jazz

Since the Lebanese poet Rabih Lahoud and the trumpet player from Schwerin Marcus Rust accidentally met each other in 2010 they have created a pioneering and intercultural music with pianist Clemens Pötzsch and drummer Demian Kappenstein right in the middle of Germany. The band’s music ranges between contemporary jazz, new classical, world music and pop and combines them with oriental sounds and Arabic poetry. The band’s exceptional singer, Rabih Lahoud, tells tales of distant lands using his emotional singing incorporating contrasting sounds to become one in the music. Masaa has distanced itself from typical oriental clichés creating a truly unique style. The four musicians create a poetic and musical mosaic by inweaving their own personal worlds and thereby create a work which portraits the diversity of life. This groundbreaking concept can be heard on their two records: Freedom Dance (2012), Afkar (2014) . Masaa has been awarded the Bremer Jazzpreis in 2012 as well as the audience award of Creole in 2013 and the Förder-RUTH of the Rudolstadt-Festival in 2015. Right from the start the ensemble has made an effort to carry their work out into the world: Masaa performed in Eastern Africa, in Lebanon and Jordan as well as Spain and England. In 2015 the quartet teamed up with Israeli singer Yael Deckelbaum and sent out a sign to support the peace process between Jewish and Arabic culture. In may 2017 the third album "outspoken" will be released via Traumton, the renowned Berlin-based independent label. Record Label: Traumton Style: Jazz

Anne Mette Iversen Quartet +1 is an extension of Anne Mette's longest running group: Anne Mette Iversen Quartet. Established in New York City in 2002, the musical relationship and the improvisational rapport of its musicians have developed and grown to the exceptional, along with the music and Ms. Iversen's compositions. With Anne Mette Iversen Quartet +1 and the album 'Round Trip' Ms. Iversen has found the perfect voice for a long sought-after musical aesthetic. 'Round Trip' is modern jazz on the highest level, and both the band and the album communicate a feeling of unity and togetherness that no one takes for granted these days. 'Round Trip' comes highly recommended! Anne Mette Iversen Quartet +1: John Ellis (Tenorsaxophon), Peter Dahlgren (Posaune), Danny Grissett (Klavier), Anne Mette Iversen (Bass & Kompositionen), Otis Brown III (Schlagzeug) Record Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Style: Jazz

The Ternion Quartet (Berlin) existes since 2015. It was founded by the bassist and composer Anne Mette Iversen. Iversen came from Denmark and lived for a long time in New York City; She has been living in Berlin for several years. The frontline of the Ternion Quartet consists of the German alto saxophonist Silke Eberhard ("Rising Star", Downbeat Jazz Magazine 2015) and the French trombonist Geoffroy de Masure, professor at the Jazz Institute in Berlin Iversen and Eberhard have also been playing together for some time, they first met in 2001 in Aki Takase's band, April " , A "Women in Jazz" -All Star-Lineup, the Ternion Quartet plays exclusively by Anne Mette Iversen, whose compositions are rooted in the jazz tradition and still have a very open and open approach , Grooves and swing, the harmonic happenings result from composed and improvised melody movements Saxophone, trombone and bass. The melodic framework of the compositions is exceptionally fresh; The improvisations of the musicians are enormously individual and full of emotion and depth. Record Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Style: Jazz

Artist: Journeys Label: NiRo Sounds

Artist: Eivind Opsvik Label: Loyal Label

KY is the name of Studnitzky's multifaceted music project which is minimalistic yet full of layers and diverse sounds. The ECHO Jazz awarded trumpeter & pianist takes his aesthetic influences from electronic music and is performed by a scaled-down instrumental ensemble. Studnitzky has succeeded in combining virtuoso yet unassuming piano playing with his unique vocalsounding trumpet style to create light and compelling grooves, delivering strikingly emotional melodies with beautiful clarity. His open approach and eclectic background have enabled him to magically fuse a minimal techno feel with sophisticated voice leading, inspired jazz improvisations and indie pop harmonies. The result is rhythmic, aloof and romantic all at once. Looking at Studnitzky's creative output over the last few years, KY organic is clearly pursuing an artistic quest. It is the search for the perfect alchemy between different musical genres and mutual enrichment. Studnitzky has created his own distinct style, successfully finding a balance between being contemporary yet indefinably timeless. Record Label: Contemplate Music Style: Jazz

Great Britain‘s most successful instrumental artist of all time, now on vinyl! A tribute to this cult old-timer clarinettist from England ! Record Label: Zyx Style: Jazz

Eivind Aarset's first solo album. One of the most iconic albums of the 90s Jazz boom! He performs all guitars: straight, treated, e-bowed, looped, ugly and pretty. Aarset is also responsible for all compositions, arrangements, recording, programming, sampling and bass. Record Label: Jazzland Recordings Style: Jazz

Every era calls for their own music. A good album must not comment on the time to reflect them. With Luxury Habits, Nils Wograms band Root 70 created precisely the soundtrack of our era. Times change, and the very first bars of the opener of Luxury Habits announce already another kind from root 70. Never before has the band been so serious and profound. This is about no less than dissolution of time and individual variable lines, that stands for life in all its facets. Record Label: NWOG Style: Jazz

A fine choice of jazz classics! TRACKS: Disk 1 1. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime 2. Dinah Washington - What A Difference A Day Made 3. Frank Sinatra - Just One Of Those Things 4. Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson - Let's Fall In Love 5. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me 6. Dean Martin - Baby It's Cold Outside 7. Dave Brubeck - Take Five 8. Billie Holiday - For Heaven's Sake 9. Sammy Davis jr. - Someone To Watch Over Me 10. Ella Fitzgerald - Lullaby Of Birdland 11. Dinah Washington - This Bitter Earth 12. Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco 13. Dean Martin - With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming 14. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Cheek To Cheek 15. Billie Holiday - Ain't Misbehavin' 16. Frank Sinatra - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 17. Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me 18. Nat King Cole - Tell Me All About Yourself 19. Ella Fitzgerald - Stormy Weather 20. Dinah Washington - Everybody Loves Somebody 21. Billie Holiday - Day In, Day Out 22. Louis Armstrong - You're The Top Disk 2 1. Frank Sinatra - The Lady Is A Tramp 2. Ella Fitzgerald - Blue Moon 3. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy 4. Dean Martin - Dream A Little Dream Of Me 5. Nat King Cole - Unforgettable 6. Billie Holiday - Our Love Is Here to Stay 7. Sammy Davis jr. & Carmen McRae - People Will Say We're in Love 8. Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin 9. Ella Fitzgerald - Let's Do It 10. Dinah Washington - Makin' Whoopee 11. Yma Sumac - Gopher 12. Dean Martin - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 13. Frank Sinatra - I Get A Kick Out Of You 14. Billie Holiday - But Not For Me 15. Ella Fitzgerald - Have You Met Miss Jones? 16. Dinah Washington - September In The Rain 17. Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love 18. Frank Sinatra - I've Got The World On A String 19. Dean Martin - Sway 20. Ella Fitzgerald - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 21. Frank Sinatra - Old Devil Moon 22. Sammy Davis jr. - There Is No Greater Love Record Label: Coil Records Style: Jazz

KY is the name of Studnitzky's multifaceted music project which is minimalistic yet full of layers and diverse sounds. The ECHO Jazz awarded trumpeter & pianist takes his aesthetic influences from electronic music and is performed by a scaled-down instrumental ensemble. Studnitzky has succeeded in combining virtuoso yet unassuming piano playing with his unique vocalsounding trumpet style to create light and compelling grooves, delivering strikingly emotional melodies with beautiful clarity. His open approach and eclectic background have enabled him to magically fuse a minimal techno feel with sophisticated voice leading, inspired jazz improvisations and indie pop harmonies. The result is rhythmic, aloof and romantic all at once. Looking at Studnitzky's creative output over the last few years, KY organic is clearly pursuing an artistic quest. It is the search for the perfect alchemy between different musical genres and mutual enrichment. Studnitzky has created his own distinct style, successfully finding a balance between being contemporary yet indefinably timeless. Record Label: Contemplate Music Style: Jazz

From all the unconventional projects Sebastian Gramss has initiated, Slowfox is the most melodic. Essentially that is true; nonetheless, also this assessment should be seen in relation. Of course ECHOaward- winners Gramss, Hayden Chrisholm und Philip Zoubek are much too reflective to stray onto the thin ice of entertainment. “We invite the listener by connecting to something familiar,” Sebastian Gramss describes the starting point from which the trio develops chamber-musical aesthetics of sharpened senses. Gentle Giants comes alive through a subtle profoundness, in which there is a lot to discover: harmonic finesse, elegant sound ideas, and fine imaginative powers. Bandleader Gramss, who also functioned as the producer of the record, calls the music “Melodic Avantgarde”. Different from the subversive avant-garde of earlier decades, Slowfox only changes a few specific rather than all established parameters. The open approach of the trio brings together crafty structures and improvisations and appeals to intellect and heart alike. Instead of bold speed or muscle flexing there are atmospheric nuances and slender sounds, which interlock in transparent arrangements. At the first listening the omission of any percussion already becomes apparent. Certainly Slowfox is not unique in this aspect, although the concept still seems quite uncommon in a jazz-context. Of course Slowfox can also swing without a specific beat, however, other qualities are the focus here. Unlike the debut album released in 2014, all compositions on Gentle Giants are written by Gramss specially for this formation. “On the first record we explored the possibilities of the new formation and therefore I resorted partly to tried and trusted material,” Gramss recollects. “Thereafter the band sound was generally clear.” Subsequently the trio played live a lot and carved out its contours more and more clearly. It was essential to this new work, to carry on the individual path. It took about a year to find fitting pieces and to formulate them, Gramss says. In the summer of 2016 there was an extensive tour, so Slowfox had the chance to bring many of the pieces from Gentle Giants to life on stage before they went to the studio in mid-September. Born 1966 in Wilhelmshaven, Sebastian Gramss began playing guitar and electric-bass, which later led him to the double bass and it was Louis Armstrong, Progressive-Rock and Weather Report that brought him to jazz. In the past decades he has worked with sound-rebels like Fred Frith and Elliot Sharp, as well as free jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann and has written music for Pina Bausch and Hans Kresnik. Gramss’ most unusual project is probably the orchestra consisting of 50 bassists named Bassmasse [Bass mass]. Gramss already played with Hayden Chrisholm before Slowfox; back in 1996 they were already sharing a rehearsal room. The saxophonist with the clear tone came to Cologne through a DAAD-scholarship and in the mean time also studied in Japan and in India. On his solo debut Circe he amazed with a self-devised microtonal system and since then Chrisholm played with Root70, David Sylvian and others. Furthermore, he created music for films and installations of Rebecca Horn. In 2013 he was awarded the SWR-Jazz-Prize. Philip Zoubek studied in Vienna and from there resettled to Cologne in 2001. For over 10 years the unconventional pianist has been in contact with Gramss and also played with Louis Sclavis, Rudi Mahall, Simon Nabatov, Clayton Thomas and many more. His trademark is extensive preparation of the grand piano with aluminum pots, glasses and plastic toys, which decisively expand on Cage’s basic idea. Just like for their debut album, Slowfox has found a poetic guiding motif for Gentle Giants as well, and its words were interspersed throughout the titles in the track listing. Since the order of the compositions on the album obviously follows a tonal dramaturgy, some of them now randomly carry peculiar names like “Were”, “To Be” or “The”. The entire quote - “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music“ - is accredited to Friedrich Nietzsche, Gramss says, but it is uncertain if it really originated with the philosopher. What is for sure though, is that the clarity and deeper meaning of the sentence Slowfox very well. The trio’s nuanced music can make the mind dance and its listeners will definitely not be declared insane Record Label: Traumton Style: Jazz

Record Label: Enlightenment Series Style: Jazz

Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra with guest soloist Dan Faehnle head into Crossroads Studios this month to record a new album for Dot Time Records called "Need To Know Bassist". Chuck's exquisite and sensitive compositions, including the spectacular mini-concerto for piano "Concerto Peligrosso", will make up the majority of the tracks on the new record. Other highlights will include his arrangement of a beautiful American folk song "All the Pretty Horses", and a tribute to Sonny Rollins called "Sound of Sonny" based on the saxophone colossus' solo on the tune "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye". Stay tuned for more details on this exciting new recording! Record Label: Dot Time Records Style: Jazz

Re-release of the hard-to-get debut album by Torun Eriksen. here is an excerpt from the original press release: Glittercard makes the world with a remarkable singing talents , Produced by Jazzland founder Bugge Wesseltoft. Torun Eriksen does not have to move. The Sincerity, which characterizes her texts, is always in her To find voice. The jazz singer from the south Norwegian Telemark has an unusually clear expression, Tal-times, I could improve my experience with improvised Music, and I could get my lyrical side "Électronique Noir is now regarded as a classic. The label colleagues Bugge Wesseltoft and Nils-Petter Molvær can be heard as guests. "The title Électronique Noir says it all about the album: it's cinematic music, Meditative, dark, electronic, "says Eivind Aarset. The perfect with the warm sound of their four - headed Band harmonies. Glittercard is a remarkably mature one Debütalbum, which is a decade-long musical education Translucent. Wesseltoft said Torun Eriksen as one of the greatest singing talents he has ever been to Norway. Glittercard has a gently grooving Gospel and R & B coloring, blown by Scandinavian Melancholy. And then there is Torun Eriksen's voice, the Of the purity of a Norwegian mountain stream is: melodic, Clear, and gently gentle. "The voice of the year on The jazz scene. "Dagsavisen Record Label: Jazzland Recordings Style: Jazz

Record Label: Enlightenment Series Style: Jazz

After more than 200 concerts in Europe the American Robyn Bennett and her band "Bang Bang present the new album The Song Is You. Jazz-influences are still present, even as pop is now given a larger space. Rock and swing, soul and fun unite with the highest musical power. From irresistible rhythms and the sticky melodies up to explosive brass is everything in there. "I like the concept of stone skipping on a calm water surface. It is a way to offer nature. The stone defies at the same time, for a while, his unchanging destiny, the gravitation to obey. The album features also the Grammy Award Nominated Gretchen Parlato and Theo Bleckmann as well as Neli and Kalina Andreeva. The band presents an album of own songs like a melting pot of the music of today's New Orleans: blues, funk, country, soul and rock, with jazz. Previously Bang Bang has already published two self-produced albums (Bang Bang in 2009 and Live Until You Die in 2011). Record Label: O-Tone Music Style: Jazz

Artist: Doug Macdonald Label: Blu-jazz

Одноименный дебют на ECM от Quercus, получивший премию "альбом года" от немецкой ассоциации звукозаписывающих критиков в 2013 году, получил высокую оценку международной прессы и особенно отмечался в Великобритании, где Джун Табор уже давно считается «темноголосой королевой Английской фолк-музыки "(цитата из The Times). Народная, джазовая и камерная музыка, сливаясь превращаются в мир Quercus, где реконтекстуализация материала является частью процесса, заставляя слушателей уделять повышенное внимание даже знакомым песням. "Nightfall" открывается известной шотландской песней "Auld Lang Syne" и постепенно вдыхает в нее новую жизнь, вводя нас в программу, включающую "Don’t Think Twice" Боба Дилана, джазовый стандарт "You Don’t Know What Love Is" и баллада "Somewhere" из легендарной West Side Story, а также оригинальные композиции Ха Уоррен и Иана Баллами, наряду с традиционными британскими народными песнями в новых аранжировках. Artist: Quercus Label: ECM