Jazz

01 Oleo
02 Body and Soul
03 Endlich 7
04 Heidis Choice
05 Way Back Home
06 Que Rico
07 Lullaby of Birdland
08 I Will Survive
09 My Lost Friend
10 The Thrill Is Gone

01 You Don’t Know What Love Is
02 Save Your Love For Me
03 Blue Clouds
04 Dayflight
05 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
06 Black Cat
07 Celeste
08 You Don’t Know Me
09 Somewhere

01 Mein lieber Schwan
02 5 Fans
03 Balsam
04 Body and Soul
05 Keine halben Sachen
06 Blue Matter
07 Loud and Proud
08 Alles dreht sich
09 Don’t Lose The Blues

01 Sunny
02 On Broadway
03 Ain’t No Sunshine
04 Summertime
05 Route 66
06 Embraceable You
07 My Funny Valentine
08 What’s Going On

Die Fäden laufen zusammen im Kopf der Zuhörenden. Hier entstehen Bilder und Geschichten - ausgelöst von Musik. In jedem Kopf andere, völlig unterschiedliche. Sie basieren auf Lebens- und Hör-Erfahrungen, auf Stimmungen, Lebenssituationen, auf individuellen Befindlichkeiten und emotionaler Verfassung.

Muss man für das Hören dieser Musik wissen, dass Thomas Guitar Walter seit über dreißig Jahren Gitarre spielt? Dass er an der Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen studierte? Dass er 2007 sein erstes Album unter eigenem Namen aufnahm? 2009 das zweite und 2016 das dritte. Dass Tourneen ihn in die USA, auf die Philippinen, nach Estland, Spanien, Polen, Tschechien, Österreich und in die Schweiz führten? Dass er u.a. mit Kool and the Gang, Roy Hargrove, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Randy Brecker, Michael Gibbs, John Schröder, Johnny O’Neil, Billie Kaye und Takehiro Simizu auf der Bühne oder im Studio stand und ein Faible für Jimi Hendrix hat? Dass er seit 20 Jahren mit dem Schlagzeuger Bernd Oezsevim gemeinsam Musik macht und sie in dieser Zeit zu Brüdern im Geiste wurden? Dass er seit 2010 in Berlin lebt, 2017 Vater wurde und dass er sich und seinen Fans das nun vorliegende Album eigentlich schon 2021 zu seinem 40. Geburtstag schenken wollte, was Corona verhinderte? Dass Corona andererseits den Bassisten Niklas Lukassen früher als geplant aus den USA zurück nach Deutschland brachte, was die Aufnahmen in der aktuellen Besetzung erst möglich machte?

All das zu wissen, mag dem Protagonisten biografische Konturen geben, ist aber ganz und gar unnötig für das Hören der Musik, für das Sich-Einlassen auf die Geschichten, die uns Thomas Guitar Walter und sein Trio erzählen.

Für mich sind die Songs der Doppel-EP „Get Ready!“ / „SixtySix“ der Soundtrack zu einem fiktiven Road-Movie. Schlagartig wähne ich mich beim ersten Hören in einem Sportwagen. Mal mit offenem, mal mit geschlossenem Verdeck. Gemeinsam mit meiner Freundin geht es in moderatem Tempo durch weite, menschenleere Landschaften, durch turbulente Städte, verträumte Dörfer, auf Serpentinenstraßen durch Gebirge, entlang an der Küste des Meeres, über dem Möwen ihre Kreise ziehen. Wir fahren vorbei an endlosen Sonnenblumenfeldern, verwunschen erscheinenden Seen. Meist strahlt die Sonne. Hin und wieder ziehen Wolken auf, die bald dem leuchtenden Abendrot und später der sternenklaren Nacht weichen. Kinder spielen. Paare tanzen, träumen, lieben sich. Spannung und Entspannung. Wir beobachten das Treiben vom Balkon eines kleinen Hotels aus, in dem wir für eine Nacht Station machen. Dieser Trip ist Auszeit vom Alltags-Chaos.

Aber hören Sie selbst. Mit offenen Sinnen!

01 Get Ready
02 Dancin’ Rainbows
03 Nine heißt Nine
04 Elsterglanz
05 Spirits Fly Like A Dove
06 SixtySix
07 Es war so finster...
08 Habitat
09 Burndy’s Tune
10 My Sun

01 Cold Case
02 24/7
03 Where It Belongs
04 Ballad For Tom
05 Dance On Little Girl
06 Flummi
07 Bird’s Waltz
08 It’s All Here
09 Fast Lane

A
01 transcendence
02 arcade [4]
03 anger
04 #higgledy-piggledy
05 arcade [2]
06 outburst
B
07 junkyard
08 propaganda
09 equilibrium

Embark on a musical journey with Lucia Fodde's latest release! The album 'Harlem Beats' is officially here, accompanied by the captivating single 'Chelsea Bridge,' both available now.
Lucia Fodde interprets Strayhorn's composition without lyrics, using her voice as an instrument. This distinctive approach, showcased by the quintet—Davide Incorvaia (piano/ synth/Rhodes), Francesco Beccaro (bass), Aidan Lowe (drums), Greg Ambroisine (trumpet), and Lucia Fodde (vocals)—results in a harmonious homage. In a reverent celebration, Lucia pays homage to the rich musical bond and collaborative genius between Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, often considered Duke's alter ego. "Chelsea Bridge" testifies to the infinite possibilities of jazz, where Lucia Fodde's voice intertwines perfectly with the quintet's instrumentation.

01 Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
02 Mood Indigo
03 Heaven
04 Chelsea Bridge
05 In A Mellow Tone
06 A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing

01 Plainte Ayotl
02 Geisha Skeleton
03 Forbearance
04 Marche Triomphale
05 Rising Red
06 Doom
07 Miracle
08 Parable
09 Insect
10 Short Story
11 Gyro's Tale

LILITHS KIRCHE oder der KLANGKOSMOS des Moritz Götzen

Moritz Götzen, Jazz-Kontrabassist, E-Bassist, Theatermusiker und Komponist kreiert in Wechselwirkung mit Klang- und Lebenswelten einen neuen Klangkosmos. Das Ergebnis präsentiert er mit LILITHS KIRCHE. Die Faszination des Klangs entdeckte Moritz Götzen lange bevor er sich „seinem“ Instrument, dem Kontrabass zuwandte. Mit 15 Jahren schließlich nahm er seine musikalischen Geschicke selbst in die Hand und fand nach anfänglichem E-Bass und Klavier spielen den Kontrabass als „zweites Ich“. Mit dem Kontrabass erkundete, filterte und analysierte Moritz Götzen die klassisch-traditionellen und avantgardistischen Klangwelten. Schließlich fragte er sich: „Wie erschaffen wir Neues? Müssen wir uns radikal ins Unbekannte werfen oder erschließt es sich natürlich, als logische Folge unseres bisherigen Weges Können wir Interessantes im und aus dem Nichts kreieren oder setzen wir nur alte Puzzleteile zu immer neuen Bildern zusammen? Müssen wir uns entscheiden?“

Bei seiner Suche nach Antworten traf er auf die Violinistin Julia Brüssel und den Gitarristen Jonas Hemmersbach. Mit seiner neuen Formation machte sich Moritz Götzen auf die Suche nach einer eigenen Stimme als Improvisator und schuf ein ehrliches Abbild seiner musikalischen Geschichte, die sich in etwa liest:„Aufgewachsen in klassischer-, Pop/Rock- und Punkmusik, danach im Jazz akademisiert... sich weder dem Kitsch, noch der Asthetik des Hässlichen verschließen und sowohl dem körperlichen als auch dem intellektuellen Aspekt der Musik seinen Raum geben. Mit stilistischer Offenheit und Sensibilitat formt das Jazztrio die bewusst simpel gehaltenen Melodien zu energetischen Strukturen. Fur einige Stücke wird die Band durch den Kölner Cellisten Veit Steinmann zum Quartett ergänzt.

01 The Maggie Hunter 1
02 Aquarius
03 Madame
04 Melrosa
05 Herrn Sommers Wälder
06 Im Rückblick
07 Peng
08 The Maggie Hunter 2
09 Liliths Kirche
10 Der Wendepunkt

01 Ralph
02 Bridge
03 Rusty Storm
04 Mature As A Tree
05 March 1st
06 winters
07 Contradictory toughts

The sewing machines quartet found their sound with their third studio album "Times": the unmistakable dialogue between saxophone and guitar, which is now the figurehead of the young Munich quartet. With "Times" a new era begins, so to speak, in the eight-year history of the quartet around guitarist Simon Harscheidt, in which the melody instrument changed several times. However, the composer's overarching goal hasn't changed since the beginning: the melodies of his songs should be beautiful, catchy and sometimes a bit provocative. Why shouldn't contemporary instrumental jazz also produce catchy tunes?"

01 inversion
02 Interlude
03 Times
04 Walz for Vicky
05 Sat
06 Zelal's voicing
07 Birthday
08 Vienna
09 blazers

Preorder - delivery for the release on 02/03/2023

Bardo means intermediate state. Between sleep and wakefulness, in ignorance, in questioning, between light and dark, between loud and quiet, between familiar and unusual. Piano and singing become means of expression in a search for something in between. Bardo begins with a lot of "space" (first light, lift), songs somewhere between Prokofiev, jazz and pop (le motif cinque) and then condenses into "the astounding eyes of julia", a piece full of breadth about the intense moment of eye contact , about the feeling of falling out of time. "Descending into a waterfight," a perky, childish piece, suggests a prank as meandering polyphonic improvisation emerges in the midst. Again and again it is about experiencing the space in between. Space is left, tones sound into each other, combine to form new harmonies. “Circles” begins with minimalistic sound structures reminiscent of Arvo Pärt; as if someone had forgotten themselves and the world while sitting at the piano and then continued with a simple song. The voice is used twice in the last two pieces, with “Lullaby” marking the end of our journey. Tender, unusual sounds put you in the mood for sleep. Somewhere between dreaming and being awake, the birds keep singing until you no longer know where you are.

01 First Light
02 counterpoint
03 elevator
04 Lydia And Her Cranebirds
05 le motif cinque
06 Hanna
07 The Astonishing Eyes Of Julia
08 dots
09 Liminal Space
10 Distinctive openness
11 Descending Into a Waterfight
12 circles
13 lullaby

Progress and continuity often stand in each other's way. However, when these two supposedly antagonistic principles condition each other, great things usually happen. "Voyage", the second album by Germany's smallest big band Was Nun, is without doubt such a stroke of luck. The echo of the debut, which was only released last year, is still reverberating, and yet the six-piece band is breaking new ground.
As original as the band name Was Nun is, the group manages to ignore it in a wonderfully refreshing way on “Voyage”, because the sextet knows exactly what to do with their second coup. Saxophonist Moritz Aring, trumpeter Marvin Zimmermann, trombonist Jan Frederik Schmidt, pianist Tony Williams, bassist Marcus Lewyn and drummer Erik Mrotzek continue to cultivate the rebelliously distinguished sound of the predecessor, which leans graciously on the achievements of jazz history, but at the same time confidently looks to the future breaks up The arrangements for the three wind instruments and rhythm section are so polished and precise that it is often difficult to believe that there is only a sextet at work.
But the six protagonists of Was Nun are far too curious to be satisfied with what they have achieved. They took the initial momentum of the first album with them on their journey, but in the run-up to the production of the follow-up they gave a lot of thought to upcoming changes. From a series of theatrical projects that preceded the debut, the band were used to thinking in big time frames. But this time she wanted to enjoy the immediate moment more. This commitment to spontaneity comes across with concentrated power. While the six travelers on “Labyrinth” told a story about where they came from, on “Voyage” they mark all the more clearly where they are at the moment. This subtle leap into the present expresses itself differently in each song. Where other bands mature and age, Was Nun has audibly gained experience, but at the same time bathed in a fountain of youth without pandering to the taste of their listeners.
The songs of the band of six tell stories from the lives of everyone involved. Be it personal memories of individuals about stays in certain places or recently deceased friends or shared experiences of the whole band - the poignancy of the individual narrative pressure, which is translated into a collective language, is palpable from the first to the last note of the album . "They may be stories that only go back to one or the other in the band, but in the end they become stories that have something to do with all of us," sums up Jan Frederik Schmidt. "It's just because we always do so much together. Our private and professional stories are linked to form a common narrative thread.”
The new pace of Was Nun also includes upgrading the rhythm section. While the piano, bass and drums on “Labyrinth” were still – albeit prominently – a little overshadowed by the broad wind section, on “Voyage” they set their own accents. As a result, the play of Was Nun becomes more contoured and richer in contrast. Large parts appear even larger, smaller parts appear much smaller. The totality of opposites rests on all six shoulders. Bassist Marcus Lewyn emphasizes that there was no conscious decision behind this process, but saxophonist Moritz Aring notes that many parts simply wanted to be arranged less thoroughly. This opens up more freedom for the spontaneous development of ideas, and the rhythm section simply comes into its own.
The creative impulses of the band are distributed very evenly. Was Nun's signature, already deposited on "Labyrinth", is unmistakable, and yet the travel group on "Voyage" has become much more unpredictable in detail and the dramaturgy has become more unpredictable from song to song, but also within the respective songs. "The album may seem like a collection of short stories," Aring says, "but all of these stories have common threads. That's why we decided on the album title 'Voyage'. What have we already experienced and seen together on our journey, and what might still be waiting for us on the horizon?”
Traveling always means leaving something familiar behind in order to gain something new. This magic of letting go is a common thread that runs through the songs on the album and is convincing every time you listen to it again.
Speaking of signature: One of the great strengths of the band is their brilliance. Are the fifteen or more voices that we sometimes think we hear really only six musicians? As if flying blind, the six voices combine to form a Meta Voice and thus manage to associate a multitude of other voices in the listener's ear. "We just know each other a lot better than on the first album," confirms pianist Tony Williams, "and we can play to our strengths much better. When I write a song for Was Nun today, I know exactly who will take it and how. In this way, I can give my colleagues voices that exactly match their personality. We support each other just as much as we challenge each other in order to progress musically together.”
"Six come through the whole world" already stated the Brothers Grimm. And so the journey takes its course. A band reinvents itself while staying true to itself. Was Nun takes the imaginative ear on an entertaining, varied and eventful trip from the familiar into the unknown, which invites you to linger here, to look back there and again and again to set off.”

01 Voyage
02 rue de Blamage
03 Shift
04 Never Alone
05 Trappist-1
06 Mr GJS
07 Obstacle course
08 All Roads Lead To Home

Béla Meinberg presents his new trio album "Akkolo"! That word, which in the pianist's childhood was allowed to be used as a universal word for everything, also describes the second album of the Berlin trio most aptly: Everything that pleases and is fun is included. Except food. With Thorbjørn Stefansson and Jordan Dinsdale, one of the most innovative and creative rhythm groups in the capital has set up here to create music together.
"My favorite trio!" - Mom

01Free 1
02 The fox at night
03Free 2
04 All of Me
05 What is beauty?
06Free 3
07 Richie Cole Energy Song
08 Free 4
09 segments
10 goodbye
11 21

SoundBirdz is a female guitar and vocal duo from Cologne with Christina Zurhausen (git) and Sarah Tsehaye (voc). They are authentic and free in their way of expression and so their songs are mostly created in spontaneous songwriting and improv sessions. Their songs move in soul, funk and pop and are profound, unconventional and moving, as is their stage presence with which they carry away and touch. The two get the inspiration for their sound from different genres and thus form their unmistakable warm and edgy sound. Christina, who studied jazz guitar among other things, was accompanied musically by Nirvana, John Scofeld Thelonious Monk and feels at home in the genres grunge, rock, jazz, soul and funk.
Sarah loves the great Motown singers, neo-soul, world music and much more. Her clear and powerful voice transports pure energy and in symbiosis with Christina's guitar playing the two groove atmospherically and timelessly.

01 Following
02 Look At
03 What's The Price
04 On The Radio
05 Closer To My Aim
06 Could Be Insecurity
07 Put Your Guns Down
08 When is enough enough
09 time for two
10 Maybe Baby

The new sound of graswaechstuebrall has been expanded to include the double bass timbre. It's almost exclusively an electric guitar meets double bass album. A dense, intimate sound, warm and touching. Stories freely improvised, with structure and at times a pop sound that cannot be denied a jazzy touch.
The joy of playing of Dillen (guitar) and Andreas Müller (double bass) does not stand still, but finds expression in this new long player.

1 Far, far, far
2 Excellent !
3 iguana man
4 flower ant
5 Osnabrooklyn
6 blue digits
7 bamboo shampoo
8 breath
9 On a slow train
10 tsunami

You are powerless, in constant stress, with your nerves at the end... You are ambitious, making plans and want to experience something... You are a music lover, an experienced jazz friend or an expert... We will take you on a journey to the sunny Spain!
Stephan Schott (drums and production), Martin Scheer (double bass/e-bass) and Gerontiy Chernyshev (piano and composition) have captured fascinating moments of improvised music for you....
Don't miss the joy-giving sounds of our trio!!!

1. Expectation
2. Pack your bags again
3. On the go
4th next
5. Morning
6. Ascension
7. Castle
8. Boardwalk
9. The sea
10. Farewell
11. Return journey
12. Home again
13. Bonus track: A day in Dortmund (demo)

The "Samtmann" is back and presents us with his eighth solo album.
A lot has happened with Ralph Maten: New podcast (talk in the recording studio). New live format on YouTube and in the middle of the 2020 pandemic, he fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Ralph Maten comments: "When I was a kid, my grandmother sang along to the songs of Sinatra - and I loved to listen. Now I'm old myself, but it's still in my ears and in my heart the whole time.
It was clear to me that I absolutely wanted to record a complete jazz album – with my voice! Without modulating my voice like it sounds like Sinatra. There are already enough recordings of that, including with the great Lothar Krist Big Band from NDR.
I wanted the album to sound like the Velvet Man. Harmonious and very intimate. I worked a lot with tube preamp and tape saturation in production. To get a bit of that 50's sound that I love so much.
In the middle of the pandemic, I worked on this album for almost a year - worked out almost everything on my own. The titles arranged, sung, played instruments. Produced, mixed, self-mastered and even designed the entire artwork myself.” It couldn't be more Ralph Maten.
The single "Misty" climbed high in the streaming portals in just a few days. The very atmospheric music video was filmed at Prince Alexander zu Schaumburg Lippe in his castle in Bückeburg.
time to enjoy!
Ralph Maten's soft, bell-like voice played from his grand piano. In addition, string arrangements, double bass, a quiet jazz guitar with saxophone and subtle percussion. It doesn't need more. Best enjoyed in front of the fireplace with a glass of red wine!
Text: F. Karsten / Amp Media

01 Misty
02 summer wind
03 As time goes by
04 Stars Fell On Alabama
05 The Lady Is A Tramp
06 Cry Me A River
07 Beyond The Sea
08 LOVE
09 Fly Me To The Moon
10 Moon River
11 Summer Wind (Extended Version)
12 Close To You

The first edition of this album was released in 2003 as a "low budget production" in a small edition with a potato print cover (well-preserved copies are highly valued :-). The second edition in 2006 was more professional: printed cover, CD with label and LC code. Due to undiminished demand, we are now releasing this third edition on Timezone as a digipac. The music (Wolfgang Roth & Thomas Wecker), the mix (Lukas Roth) and the mastering (Florian Oestreicher) remain the same. Authentic sound straight from our living room to yours!

01 Rio
02 Jordu
03 In A Sentimental Mood
04 All Of You
05 Billie's Bounce
06 Spring Is Here
07 The Girl From Ipanema
08 Moment's Notice
09 QuietNow
10 Blues For Alice
11 Juanito
12 HappyFisher
13 Sophisticated Lady
14 On The Sunny Side Of The Street
15Ca Xango
16' Round Midnight
17 Joy Spring
18 Stella By Starlight
19 Loss and Regain of Hair

Universe, the title of Don Kurdelius And The Mindless Orchestra's new album, describes what many of us have encountered in the last period of time... You find yourself in your own little cosmos, shielded from the rest of the universe. Self-discovery...isn't it so...? In order to make it bearable and to improve the situation as soon as possible, the call is: "Come On Everybody"!... to walk through these strange times in a funky-grooving way and prevent worse.
"Slow Down" is the call to slow down, to consciously breathe fresh air, because "It", which we don't want to name here, is spreading.
Yes, we have the blues....yes and..?
...Discover the "Wonderful" seeming things around you and don't focus too much on yourself. Move and dance in big circles to the polka...!
And don't we also encounter this phenomenon regularly: HÄ..??... what kind of uncontrolled madness is actually happening here, here, in our small world, ... somehow I feel "Far From Home", ... far away from the...maybe...good or even better universe...questions and thoughts...
"Ahead" says it rocking rigorously: away, I'm coming and everything has to go. so what?...isn't it also important to find your own way and to advance courageously...yes..yes..let's go..
..on to the "revolution"!! Bring more love, understanding, empathy, consideration, support andandand.....all the good things in the here and now,...in our "Universe"!!
Love, Peace And International Understanding!!!

01 Come On Everybody
02 Ahead
03 Wonderful
04 Slow Down
05 Far From Home
06 Revolution

As a homage to the natural beauty and freedom, but also to the dark and fantastic mysticism of Scandinavia, the Nordsnø Ensemble musically addresses the poetry of life in "Om svalor och smälvatten" (Of Swallows and Meltwater). The ensemble's second album will be released on November 27th, 2020 on Fattoria Musica Records. Their music combines Scandinavian folklore with modern jazz, with elements from progressive rock and electronic music tastefully coloring the pieces on the new album. In the "Snöporten" suite, the ensemble is complemented by a string quartet. The piece was composed in cooperation with the composer and arranger Vincent Dombrowski and the Swedish singer Anna Arco and represents the highlight of the album creates the most fantastic images of Scandinavian beauty in the minds of all listeners.

SIDE A
01 The blomstertid is coming
02 Solveigs sang
03 Vuggevise (Noen comer, noen går)
04 Till havs
SIDE B
01 Snöporten I
02 Snöporten II
03 Snoporten III
04 Då väntar ja vid vägarna

Curtain up, the music begins! If you had to describe the debut album "Labyrinth" by the Hanoverian band Was Nun in one word, it would be compact. It's hard to believe that there are actually only six musicians in the group, because the concentrated cohesive power and the phenomenal volume of the group are more like a big band than a sextet. The reason is quite simply that all six members have had experience in larger formations and have the big band feeling in their blood. Listening to each other and communicating accordingly is part of their DNA. The six youngsters know their strengths and build on them. And it is precisely this almost incomparable compactness in the sound that saxophonist Moritz Aring describes as the trademark of the group.
Was Nun is an event, a spectacle, a thing with hand and foot, straightforward and yet demanding, meticulously planned and yet completely open-ended in its effect. The six guys stand with all twelve feet in the here and now, and yet they make no secret of their close connection to tradition. The band name refers to a bar in Hanover where the six friends used to hang out together. There is no question mark behind the logo. It's more of a defiant exclamation, an announcement where the emphasis is on the first word, not the second. Authenticity and passion are the be-all and end-all.

01 The Road Ahead
02 Dream Patches
03 Maze
04 Home
05 fable
06 theorem
07 Unterluess
08 Mayak

The songs can be downloaded at the end of the order.

Peter Autschbach:
“Joscho Stephan is without a doubt a world-class guitarist who is best known for his incredibly virtuoso solo technique in the Django Reinhardt genre, which he interprets in his own unique and recognizable way. 
With all new and fresh ideas, he effortlessly lives up to Reinhardt's legacy. In the duo with me, Joscho shows himself from a slightly different side: also virtuoso, but more jazzy, sometimes with archtop guitar and sometimes with flat top acoustic guitar. It was great fun to record the pieces for our joint album 'Sundowner' with him in my studio (and to sing along with two of the pieces) and everything went very quickly. The reason is that we always (even if we tried a second version) decided to go for the "first take".
Half of the music consists of new, own compositions and our spontaneous interpretations of well-known standards. We are both happy and proud of the new album and I am very happy that it will also be released on vinyl. "

Quote from guitar master Siegfried Schwab:
“Dear Peter, dear Joscho, you have achieved something really great, you can't get enough of this sundowner, because it turned out to be an all-round successful recording!
My number one, of course: 'Holobiont'. With this piece you opened the door to the guitarist Champions League wide, wide. One can only be happy that such masters work here in our center (Europe).
Congratulations, your Sigi Schwab "

01 Stompin 'At The Savoy
02 Autumn Leaves
03 Donna Lee
04 holobiont
05 centerpiece
06 Still a long way to go
07 Good Times
08 Fill the gap
09 Sundowner
10 Begin At The End

Tell-Tale-Heart is a project launched by jazz saxophonist Ralf-Peter Fuchs in 2015 to perform his own pieces. Sava Medan, bassist currently living in Paris, has been there from the start. For the first CD, two musicians from the Ruhr area, Christian Hammer (guitar) and Michael Knippschild (drums), were part of the party and got involved in a sensitive way in bringing musical stories to life. Ralf-Peter Fuchs, Professor of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, wrote his songs over a longer period of several years, under the impressions he received from dealing with historical topics. Many of the songs were written in Munich, where he also worked as a professional musician for a while. The CD "Dance in the Haze" is about, among other things, witch dances, Spanish mercenaries in the early modern period, the medieval hustle and bustle in a port on the Ligurian coast, and last but not least the story of Chunanup, the eloquent oasis man, from ancient Egyptian literature .
The project stands in the tradition of storytelling in jazz, for which there are numerous role models. The recordings for "Dance in the Haze" were made in August 2019. Due to the corona epidemic, it was not possible to present the music together in concerts. The band hopes that this will change soon and performances can be planned again. Other compositions are also waiting to be played. Tell-Tale-Heart will thus be continued and further developed as a concept.

01 Dance In The Haze
02 First Flight
03 Cantarana
04 Armada
05 remainder
06 Prophecy
07 Chunanup
08 Good Neighbors
09 Land Of The Prince Bishop

The new CD by the Manfred Fuchs Trio convinces with varied original pieces, catchy melodies and rousing grooves.
The stylistic diversity ranges from traditional gypsy swing and romantic-dreamy ballads to blues, rhythm changes and gypsy bossa to tango, with highly virtuosic, imaginative improvisations that seem to ignore technical problems.
The bass also comes into its own - unusual for the genre - in every piece, sometimes plucked, sometimes bowed.

01 Seven Fountains
02 Lakeside Boardwalk
03 Parking Lot Blues
04 Bossa Manfredo
05 Foxology
06 Late Night
07 Mister B (The Dark Side of the Band)
08 Lazy Afternoon
09 River Bank Swing
10 For Franz

TRIAZZ offers acoustic jazz in a surprisingly different way: you could describe the style as unplugged fusion. Under the motto a jazz tribute to pop music, the band plays pop standards as jazz-funky instrumental versions. Featuring hits from The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Spencer Davis, France Gall, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Adele, Pharell Williams, Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers. The repertoire is supplemented by original compositions by bandleader Thomas Wecker.
The Moosburger Zeitung of November 20th, 2015 wrote about this formation: ... Although amplifiers were used at the concert in the Jazz Club Hirsch on Wednesday, it was one of the "quietest" evenings, not only in recent weeks. This actually forced some of the notorious talkers among the visitors of the pub to listen, which ultimately benefited everyone. "Triazz" offered a concert that was really worth listening to, which drew its effects and effect solely from the music and the musical ability of the quintet. ... The response from the audience was simply: "Great!"
TRIAZZ is a trio that includes not only bandleader and guitarist Thomas Wecker, but also Heiko Jung, one of Germany's best bass players, who has performed many times with successful projects such as the metal-jazz band Panzerballett, Martin Grubinger and Klaus Doldinger's Passport. The drummer Dittmar Hess, known from many Munich formations, has also been a member from the start. For the rhythmic basis of TRIAZZ he deliberately limits himself to cajón, snare drum and hi-hat.
TRIAZZ is regularly reinforced by the renowned Munich jazz musician and composer Wolfgang Roth (saxophone, clarinet, contraalt clarinet, flute), who, among other things, also arranged music for the films by Marcus H. Rosenmüller (“Who dies earlier is longer dead”). Roth also contributed arrangements to TRIAZZ, some of which featured unusual instrumentation with contraalt clarinet.
Finally, Florian Sagner (known from The Stimulators) joined TRIAZZ, who enriches the arrangements of Thomas Wecker and Wolfgang Roth as a great trumpeter. In many pieces he also appears as a percussionist and offers a rousing percussion section together with Dittmar Hess on cajón and snare drum.

01 The Wind Cries Mary
02 I Wish
03 Keep On Running
04 Billie Jean
05 Drive My Car
06 Get Lucky
07 The Sunshine Of Your Love
08 Just The Way You Are
09 Little Shoes
10 Ella Elle l'a
11 All My Loving
12 Rolling In The Deep
13 A dromedary in August
14 Nice Infinity
15 No Swing Today

01 Sticking to the principle
02 Quasimodo
03 Mirage
04 Flickers
05 Midnight Mood
06 Two Cherry Trees

As a homage to the natural beauty and freedom, but also to the dark and fantastic mysticism of Scandinavia, the Nordsnø Ensemble musically addresses the poetry of life in "Om svalor och smälvatten" (Of Swallows and Meltwater). The ensemble's second album will be released on November 27th, 2020 on Fattoria Musica Records. Their music combines Scandinavian folklore with modern jazz, with elements from progressive rock and electronic music tastefully coloring the pieces on the new album. In the "Snöporten" suite, the ensemble is complemented by a string quartet. The piece was composed in cooperation with the composer and arranger Vincent Dombrowski and the Swedish singer Anna Arco and represents the highlight of the album creates the most fantastic images of Scandinavian beauty in the minds of all listeners.

01 The blomstertid is coming
02 Solveigs sang
03 Då väntar ja vid vägarna
04 Snöporten I
05 Snöporten II
06 Snoporten III
07 Inge hinner fram till den eviga ron
08 Vuggevise (Noen comer, noen går)
09 Till havs

Karapatakis, Hildenbrand and Spyridakis got to know each other on their travels through the musical cultures of this world. The musical backgrounds and experiences of the three musicians merge in a wondrous way in a unique chamber music sound aesthetic. The trio creates an intercultural jazz project with a high degree of authenticity. The interplay of these three very different musicians is surprising: Atmospheric and lyrical compositions meet the joy of improvisation, experimentation and interaction. Dynamic contemporary jazz beyond the ordinary, with Mediterranean colors and oriental scents .

1. Let Us Play
2nd run
3. The Time Beyond
4. Far And Away
5. A New Dawn
6. Lost
7. Dance To Infinity
8. Footsteps In The Snow
9. Ayia Marina
10. Ariadne's thread
11. A Story From Now

Frank Muschalle is one of the most interesting and sought-after Boogie Woogie pianists in Europe today. With the various, top-class musicians, Frank and his trio move at the highest level both in terms of sound technology and music.

01 straight forward
02 Sleigh Ride
03 Two Funky People
04 Red Light
05 Chocolate Drop
06 Glenn's Glide
07 key shifters
08 I'll Remember You
09 You're A Fool
10 Lady Be Good
11 Nod To Wilson
12 Clang, Clang, Clang
13 Splashin' Around With The Kids
14 Pastries
15 It's You I'm Thinking Of
16 Sheik Of Araby
17 Spooky 'n' Blue
18 Jungle Town Jubilee
19 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You

The CD by Manfred Fuchs, the author of the successful gypsy jazz textbooks "gypsy jazz workshop" and "Swing Up Your Guitar".
Inspired by Django Reinhardt and his successors, the trio has developed an independent, unmistakable style with their own, partly lively, partly romantic pieces that stick in the memory. Virtuosic and relaxed at the same time.

01 Another minor swing
02 Blues for Andreas
03 Dulcet bolero
04 Banosi swing
05 Some other time
06 Cornu
07 Kali's coffee
08 Pannonia
09 Tiny's wedding waltz
10 Song for Harry

A grant from the Berlin Senate enabled Hub Hildenbrand to study Indian music in Calcutta from November 2010 to April 2011. He took lessons from Pandit Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod master of North Indian classical music. The Indian luthier Mukunda Biswas made a double-necked instrument with sympathetic strings based on Hildenbrand's designs. On the CD the artist can only be heard on this instrument, the Duitarod. Hildenbrand's compositions are strongly influenced by his experiences in India. His music is a meditative journey, it is very personal, yet timeless and universal.

01 Heaven
02 Tacet
03 Let Go
04 If I Were A Little Bird
05 Kailka (Based On Rad Shree)
06 My Heart Is So Full
07 The Empty Room
08 Silence
09 Prayer
10 The Door We Never Opened

Hub Hildenbrand, guitarist and composer from Berlin, calls his new CD 'Heimat' "audio film". You can hardly describe it better. What can be heard here in terms of associative music, in terms of sensual sound images, goes far beyond the usual concept of a trio. One must praise Hildenbrand unreservedly for having the courage to create this acoustic kaleidoscope, for the sheer limitless imagination that makes this cycle of artful instrumental short stories possible.
Hildenbrand is a jazz guitarist, but does not use the typical clichés of the genre on this recording, but rather lives out his penchant for oriental sounds. The result is a musical concept that has never existed before: jazzy openness, spirited outbursts, collective improvisations, sound collages, long melody arcs intoned by guitar, bass and oud, harmoniously combined with pictorial motifs, alienated instrument sounds, shimmering Sound sculptures, mystical ostinatos, oriental microtonality. 'Heimat' tells a story, a dream, a journey through life. This recording is a total work of art that uses the structural means of modern film - flashbacks, overlaps, montages, dream sequences - to give the music such a comprehensible multidimensionality that you are fascinated by the listening pleasure and come out of this experience strengthened and inspired.

01 entrance
02 Departure
03 Sleep, my little prince
04 Interlude (Part 1)
05 Don't turn around
06 space
07 On the day of returning home
08 Interlude (Part 2)
09 Bayushki, baju
10 song of a German mother
11 He returns.../Sleep, little children, sleep
12 The silk-merchant's daughter
13 what was
14 In a circle
15 over
16 war
17 The last one turns off the light
18 Early departure
19 What a wonderful world
20 Line Sextet No. 1

Frank Muschalle has been on tour throughout Europe for more than 15 years and is now one of the most sought-after boogie-woogie pianists internationally. He played in Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Germany, USA, France, Spain and was a guest at festivals in Zurich, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna, Dresden, Ghent, Lyon, Berlin, Lucerne and many others. Born in 1969, after 11 years of classical piano lessons, he discovered Boogie Woogie at the age of 19. From then on he devoted himself exclusively to the study of this music.

01 Swingin' the boogie
02 You're Just My Kind
03 Blue balance
04 Tree top jump
05 Just for you
06 Tiptoe
07 Blues for the night owls
08 Black fantasy
09 Down in the alley
10 Robbin's nest
11 Jesse
12 Mellow blues
13 morning glories
14 Walkin' This Boogie
15 Iceland jive
16Nagasaki
17 Creole love call