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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

Artist: Miles Mosley Label: Verve

Канадская джазовая вокалистка, композитор и трубачка Бриа Сконберг выпускает свой новый альбом, получивший название "With a Twist". Несмотря на молодость, Бриа уже довольно известна в джазовой среде. На ее счету множество призов и наград в международных джазовых фестивалях и конкурсах (в том числе премия «Джуно» — канадский аналог «Грэмми»). Для работы над альбомом Бриа воссоединилась с продюсером Мэттом Пирсоном, с которым она работала над созданием ее прошлогоднего лонгплея "Bria". Так же в записи приняли участие следующие музыканты: 5-ти кратный обладатель Грэмми Гил Гольдштейн (клавишные, аккордеон), Салливан Фортнер (клавишные), басист Скотт Колли и барабанщик Мэтт Уилсон. На альбоме "With a Twist" Бриа отдает дань уважения целому ряду легендарных исполнителей, которые в наибольшей степени повлияли на нее в музыкальном плане: стартовый трек "My Baby Just Cares For Me" символизирует низкий поклон Нине Симон, в то время как трек "Alright, Okay, You Win" вызывает воспоминания о американской джазовой певице Пегги Ли. Также включена удивительная версия "It's Oh So Quiet" Бьорк, песня, которую Сконберг любила с тех пор, когда она была в старшей школе. Более современные хиты - "Dance Me to the End of Love" Леонарда Коэна и "Thinking Out Loud" Эда Ширана - показывают, что Сконберг, опытный джазовый исполнитель, интересуется и современной поп-музыкой. Artist: Bria Skonberg Label: SONY MASTERWORKS

Unique compilation and 100th release in the catalogue of Sonorama Records - file under: cool, modern, hard bop, modal! Fourteen previously unknown tracks recorded 1959-63 in West-Germany by some of the best European jazz artists of the time, featuring Barney Wilen, Francy Boland, Rolf Kühn, Joki Freund, Attila Zoller, Fats Sadi, Roland Kovac, Rolf Ericson, Michael Naura and countless others. All tunes picked from collectors' archives, carefully mastered for 2LP-Gatefold and Longplay Digipack-CD with new sleeve notes and artist photos by Susanne Schapowalow and Hans Harzheim. Great moments from the most prosperous period in the development of European progressive jazz. Record Label: Sonorama Style: Jazz

DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! Classic late period festival show from Miles' final tour. Miles Davis is backed by Kenny Garrett on alto saxophone and flute, Kei Agaki on synths, Richard Patterson on bass, Ricky Wellman on drums, Erin Davis (Mile’s youngest son, incorrectly announced as John Bigham) on electronic percussion, and John “Foley” McCreary, Jr. on “lead bass” - a custom Blue Marble instrument tuned almost an octave higher than a standard model to fill the role of a lead guitarist. The choice of material was equally as curious and exciting, consisting of one cut apiece from 1983’s Star People and 1989’s Amandla, a few numbers previously un-released on studio recordings, and a trio of covers - Scritti Politti’s ‘Perfect Way,’ Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Human Nature.’ Despite rumours of failing health during this period, Miles’ playing is just as sharp and energetic as ever it was, and his band expertly blend together a complex mixture of jazz, funk and fusion. Broadcast live on local radio for those unable to attend, this release captures the group’s full set providing a snapshot of a jazz great giving one of the finest performances of his late career. Sadly, there were scant opportunities left for such as little more than a year after performing the show, now available here for the first time, Miles Davis passed away at the age of 65 Record Label: Parachute Style: Jazz

Jef Neve signed with Universal Music Belgium, and the third album, “Nobody is Illegal” (2006) was best selling jazz album in Belgium and reviews superlative (On his major label debut ‘Nobody Is Illegal’ his highly personal approach to the piano trio announces the arrival of a young musician of enormous promise who has the potential to become a major voice on the European jazz scene - Stuart Nicholson, 12/06) Record Label: Universal Style: Jazz

Unique compilation and 100th release in the catalogue of Sonorama Records - file under: cool, modern, hard bop, modal! Fourteen previously unknown tracks recorded 1959-63 in West-Germany by some of the best European jazz artists of the time, featuring Barney Wilen, Francy Boland, Rolf Kühn, Joki Freund, Attila Zoller, Fats Sadi, Roland Kovac, Rolf Ericson, Michael Naura and countless others. All tunes picked from collectors' archives, carefully mastered for 2LP-Gatefold and Longplay Digipack-CD with new sleeve notes and artist photos by Susanne Schapowalow and Hans Harzheim. Great moments from the most prosperous period in the development of European progressive jazz. Record Label: Sonorama Style: Jazz

With his 28 years, the bassist Rafael Jerjen is one of the greatest talents that the small but fine jazz scene in Australia has to offer. The native Swiss is not a friend of tight corsets and specifications. On the contrary, his Rafael Jerjen Concept is a compositional playground. He then develops pieces with changing musicians for different formations. After a quintet and a septet-cast (in which he shone Hank Mobleys' milestone "Soul Station" in a new glow), he now dedicates himself to Tricept of the King's discipline: the Jazz Trio. The cover photo shows three equal, overlapping triangles, which explain the bassist's philosophy. "Interplay is of central importance to me. We Three lead a musical conversation on one level and contribute to the same extent to the compositions, "Jerjen explains his trio concept, in which he explicitly includes the contrabass. "The bass is an enormous sounding and sonorous instrument - much too bad to squeeze it into pieces or to reduce it to the role of accompanying walking bass." Jerjens melodic bass play - sometimes deliberately dreamy, sometimes groovy-gripping - is only one factor, with which his ensemble stands out from the mass of the triple formations. "Especially in the USA I observe a trend towards simple compositions in comparatively poppy robes. This, of course, is justified. But my pieces sound rugged and energetic. Free elements create space for improvisations. In addition, we often change the meter within the pieces, which gives us an energy boost, "the bassist explains the special sound of Tricept. Record Label: Laika Style: Jazz