Jazz

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 Boogie Woogie Plungers
02 Cow Cow Blues
03 Katie's blues
04 Groovy stomp
05 Arosa crawl
06 Battin' The Boogie
07 Cooney Vaughny's Tremblin' Blues
08 Teegee Jive
09 Bass Goin' Crazy
10 Boogie Woogie Jamboree
11 In the dusk of the evening
12 Slum Gullion Stomp
13 The scarlet runner
14 Sheffield in the morning
15 Killer Miller
16 Glad tidings

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 Boogie Woogie Stomp
02 Farish Street Jive
03 Good Morning Blues
04 Meade's Boogie
05 Ahrensburg 80A
06 Feel The Blues
07 OB Blues
08 Fort Worth Stomp
09 Goodbye Ma!
10 Hootie's Old Stuff
11 Confessin' The Blues
12 Four O'clock Blues
13 Pinetop Blues
14 Boogie Woogie
15 Swingin' The Boogie
16 Crawlin' With CR
17 Honey Hill Blues
18 Dedication To Henry Brown
19 Little Barrel House
20 Old Blues Memories

With the concept album "Heimat" (2007) - his first CD with his own trio - Hub Hildenbrand was able to achieve more than just a respectable success. The critics gave him comments such as "The most intensive musical experience in a long time", "Journey to the center of the self" (Jazzthetik) or "The CD of the year 2007" (Jazzzeit).
With "News from afar" he presents a new master album. Here, too, intensive listening is required. Hildenbrand opens your ears with his sensitive mixture of jazz, Turkish and Indian scales or oriental ornamentation. The world music elements are completely in the service of the musical statement. His tonal language is very individual and nevertheless understandable. Because often we find ourselves much better in initially strange, exotic sounds than in well-worn musical phrases. "News from afar" makes news from alien layers of our being accessible rather than just exotic impressions from afar.
Listening to the "News from afar" is definitely one thing: an experience.

01 There were two royal children
02 Anadolu (Anatolia)
03 Chant
04 A New Song
05 Snow
06 A bright day
07 News From Bangladesh
08 Marwa
09 In Passing

Jorinde Jelen's music carries you straight to the sea, to a moonless beach and in the middle of the storm. In the 11 songs, your own words are mixed with those of great German poets, jazz with elements of pop music, tender with strong impulses.
Jorinde Jelen's music was not created on a producer's drawing board. The singer relies entirely on her own musical instincts and those of her longtime fellow musicians. The songs are almost exclusively penned by her, they are arranged together, mostly with the 2nd guitarist Bastian Ruppert. "The lyrics are the core from which the music grows," says Jorinde Jelen.
In doing so, she not only allowed herself to be inspired by the great masters of German poetry,
but also set poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Joseph von Eichendorff to music for the new album.

01 Glass fish
02 One evening
03 Mixing
04 moonlit night
05 So let's say goodbye
06 Are you lying awake
07 ocean
08 With me
09 You say goodbye
10 if you want to know
11 April witch

Anna Leman ventures into new directions with German lyrics to jazzy sounds. Spurs is the name of the album that reflects Anna's huge range of feelings and creativity: Incredibly authentic, direct, cheeky and sexy. The intensive playing of the top-class musicians immediately lets the spark fly.
A total work of art that impresses with powerful, imaginative arrangements.

01 tracks
02 Spoiled for choice
03 lunar hours
04 Summer on your skin
06 Fly high
07 Another night
08 Little eyes are crying
09 That's why I'm here

The shimmering evening air of the Alhambra, the reverent tranquility of the centuries-old Irish monastery at Glendalough, the sounds of its great role models. The young guitarist Denis Schmitz combines all of this on his second solo album Nuances, on which, contrary to today's zeitgeist, he gives the filigree, well-mused sounds of his 6- and 7-string instruments room to develop.
In addition to works by famous jazz greats such as Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner, his new album also contains his own compositions for the first time, in which he not only demonstrates his technically brilliant playing but also his compositional craft. Especially in his title composition Nuances he draws the fine line between euphony and twilight, between unyielding monotony and irascible temperament - maybe even between genius and madness. Because it is often just those "nuances" that are able to balance such a composition on the cutting edge. The real highlight of the album, however, are the "Seven Short Pieces" by the Austrian jazz guitarist and composer Wolfgang Muthspiel, which he gave him specifically for the first recording and which will certainly be an integral part of the repertoire in a few years. A single pleasure, not only for the ears.

01 Sacred Place
02 Glendalough
03 James
04 Albaicín
05 To Mick
06 shades
07 Seven Short Pieces (Opening)
08 Seven Short Pieces (Triplet Droplet)
09 Seven Short Pieces (Locrian Star)
10 Seven Short Pieces (Aeolian Fall)
11 Seven Short Pieces (canon)
12 Seven Short Pieces (Open View)
13 Seven Short Pieces (6/8 For Zsófia)

Six musicians from Cuba, Argentina, Germany, Holland and Guatemala form the band Selva. Selva was founded in 1990 by classical guitarist and composer Antonio Cosenza. In the early years, the band experimented with different formations. Latin jazz formed the center of the repertoire until the band finally concentrated on their own compositions. The band has existed in its current line-up since 2004 and has released 2 CDs. “Aventura tropical” and “Manantial”.
The latest CD "Selva Nocturna" will be presented on October 12th, 2019 in the Goldbekhaus in Hamburg. Rhythms from Latin America form the basis of Selva's music, with captivating melodies and harmonies, all wrapped up in an original and imaginative style. The band's multicultural composition fuses musical elements of Latin jazz, world music and a touch of classical music.

01 Alpha Centauri
02 Buen espiritu
03 La Tota
04 Sambossa
05 Mundo noestro
06 Presentimiento
07 Patio de jazmines
08 Arrullo
09 Mentirotas
10 Tusonrisa

Common myths are stories and sagas conceived by humans to connect people to help them live and work together in groups and societies. Politics, money and human rights are among the things we can call Common Myths. They only exist and function when a substantial group of people believes in them.
On the debut album of the Mo van der Does Quartet, the band shares the Common Myths of their musical world. The musical stories and concepts which they believe in and which holds them together as a band. Through improvisation and interaction, they explore the music and try to tell these stories.
The young Mo van der Does Quartet explores the compositions of Mo van der Does with improvisation and interaction as driving force. The band members are among the most promising musicians from the Dutch jazz scene. With unconditional trust in each other, they seek out the limits of their musical world on stage and are constantly challenging each other.
The absence of a harmonic instrument provides a creative challenge - of dealing with both the freedom and the limitations that this line-up creates. After their debut show at the Uitmarkt 2017, they have performed at venues and festivals such as the BIMhuis, InJazz and the Grachtenfestival and won prizes including the Expression of Art Award and the CTA. Their debut album Common Myths is now available.

01 opener
02 Kingshouse
03 The Unknown
04 Circumstantial
05 Common Myths
06 Prela
07 Rannoch's crap
08 August Crisis (opener reprise)

True to the motto "Old acquaintances - new band", the Cologne trumpeter Matthias Bergmann and the Oldenburg saxophonist Raimund Moritz have decided after many years to realize a band project with their favorite musicians.
The Hamburg guitarist Sandra Hempel, recently a member of the NDR Big Band, came to mind just as quickly as the bass player Peter Schwebs, who recently returned to Hanover from New York, and the Oldenburg drummer Christian Schoenefeldt.
The CD "Moodswing" recorded in March 2019 will now be released in September on Fattoria Musica Records, the label of the studio in Osnabrück where the recording was made. It mainly contains original compositions by the two band leaders, such as the ballad "Stray", which Bergmann dedicated to the composer Billy Strayhorn, or "One for Bob", Moritz's homage to the saxophonist Bob Mintzer.
A composition each by trumpeter Bert Joris and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi complete the album, whose music is modern and contemporary, but always melodic and swinging.

01 South Of The Border
02 Almost Never
03 What Would Ripky Do?
04 Stray
05 One For Bob
06 September Quiet
07 On The Brink
08 mood swing
09 For The Time Being

The Klangfahrer have now been working together for over 13 years. The band has matured like a good wine. The compositions have evolved, but the very own unmistakable sound has remained.
The third album features ten new songs and bears the pragmatic title "three". All protagonists contributed songs to the overall work. As with the previous albums "Humanity" and "Colors of trance", the listener can expect a wide range of styles with the surprising twists typical of Klangfahrer. Atmospheric parts alternate with complex musical structures in odd time signatures and sophisticated melodies. All garnished with virtuoso solos and performed with great musical ease.
Another journey through the musical world of Klangfahrer!

1 Blues for LM
2 Moment's Breeze
3 tonal discount
4 Gunter
5 Slow Motion Walk in Twelve Steps
6 The pedalist needs more
7 Ludus imperialis
8 Mini Rockless 'n Roll
9 Makin Mupie
10 Lovely Syria

The Doppler Trio is a new German/Dutch piano trio, the trio consist of three young musicians who met each other at the Conservatory in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Together they discovered their love for modern jazz music.
They developed their own atmospheric, narrative jazz sound with a special focus on the story behind the music, which is told every night again in a new and unique way. Within those songs the trio uses unconventional ideas such as effects over the acoustic piano and instruments such as the didgeridoo and Indian percussion.
They just recorded their first CD: Nebula, which will be released the 10th of January on all platforms. You can expect songs from this CD combined with new songs and improvisations.

01. Dune
02. Star
03. Enemy
04. Moondust
05.BDBC
06. Laika
07 Birth

Ideas come from playing. Sometimes you don't need programmatic at all to do something programmatic anyway. Because the ideas are in the air. They hover around us day in and day out. If we want and are able, all we have to do is catch them. We don't have to do anything other than set our antennas to receive, the rest takes care of itself. That's what happened to singer Britta-Ann Flechsenhar and guitarist Christian Kögel, who have also been on the road as Flexkögel for more than a decade and a half. Their third album begins like the soundtrack to an urban film noir that plays with our anticipatory memory. There must have been something ahead of us.
In the combination of lightness and casualness, they gain the freedom to do with the songs what is important to them, without losing their humility in front of the originals. It is all amber and yet not at all. Last but not least, the texts of "West Side Story", love and violence against the background of the fight between two enemy gangs in New York at the end of the 1940s, allow many parallels to life in major European cities, especially Flexkögel's hometown Berlin.
With bassist Paul Kleber and drummer Hans Otto, Britta-Ann Flechsenhar and Christian Kögel jump joyfully, sensually and self-confidently beyond all outer limits of jazz and pop and put their very own stamp on their living environment. Music that not only invites you to listen, but to be there and participate. A piece of awakening while pausing.

1. Intro/Cool
2. Some Other Time
3. somewhere
4.Americas
5. A Boy Like That
6. Something's Coming
7. Around The Corner
8.Lonelytown
9. Tonight
10. Jet Song

With great stylistic openness, the monthly pieces are subjective impressions from the respective month of composition. Compositional elements and expressive possibilities of the so-called serious, occidental music from 1600 to the present day and idioms from jazz, folk, world and pop music form a varied, yet cohesive whole. From intimate tranquility to virtuosic extroversion, the monthly pieces can be exciting companions throughout the year.

01 January
02 February
03 March
04 April
05 May
06 June
07 July
08 Aug
09 Sept
October 10th
November 11th
12th of December

In their duo, Yvoe Ree (voice) and Vincent Dombrowski (piano/seaboard) combine lyrical melodies, jazz-tinged sounds and art-pop elements into moving compositions.
The musical performance, refined through language, fascinates on all levels of comprehension through artistic intensity and loving expression. Bound by their trust in each other, their shared musical vision and their will to express themselves, YvoeRee create an environment of emotional expression that inevitably captures the audience!
The Hamburg duo has been making music together since 2016. The very individual sound of their music is influenced by artists such as Björk, Jeanne Lee, Jonathan Hart Makwaia and Joni Mitchell. Profoundly poetic texts depict stories in paintings, the messages of which have a metaphorical, multi-layered effect on the recipient. Each song draws a new color into the concert program with its own character. This is supported by the versatile, also experimental vocal use of the vocalist Yvoe Ree, which almost merges with the accompanying singing piano lines of her partner Vincent Dombrowksi. The heartfelt compositions offer emotional freedom of interpretation and invite you to empathize and continue to feel beyond the concert experience.

01 rooftop
02 So soft
03 Colossus
04 Song For Agnes
05 Vivo
06 Mr. Chapman
07 birdies
08 IvoryTower
09 Josephine
10 Somewhere in the world

The music of exit is rooted in Christina Zurhausen's own experiences and follows the aesthetic of grunge rock. The band leader, who comes from the rough everyday life of the Ruhr area, composes the band's songs - songs which, despite their clear structure and melody, are based on improvisation and are characterized by catchiness.
Zurhausen's music tells of loving and quarreling worlds, with a penchant for philosophy, in an attempt to fathom what holds the world together at its core. Always the Ruhr area in mind, the experienced 90s and beloved 60s in mind.
It's about emotions that lie deeper and are processed in an energetic way by the well-rehearsed musicians with a modern, rocking attitude.

1. Kiss The Night Air
2. Grunge Mess
3. Tango Unchained
4. Forgotten Opportunities
5. 221B
6. Ornette Soul
7. Monk's Honk
8. Sick
9. All The Walls I Strike My Head Against Are Inside My Head

The many years of loose cooperation between the four jazz musicians in changing line-ups has led to the desire to summarize the work on a CD through numerous joint concerts and projects since 2014. Like four different sources that unite to form a river, Stream combines individual musical experiences, ideas and compositions into a common whole. your electricity.
The Stream compositions range from sensitive ballads to almost groovy rhythms with intricate themes and sound structures, always linked by improvisations that promise further development in the live concert. Although Stream is a classic jazz quartet, the usual focal points and tasks between the instruments are resolved and shifted. Stream dedicates the debut album "Speechless" to the singer Susanne Drerup-Christenhuß, who died in 2017 and with whom they performed several times as a quintet in 2014.

1 Bossassa
2 Expecting January
3 Notice The Moment
4 Valse Satinée
5 Treillis
6 November Day
7 Speechless
8 January Feel
9 Brouillard Dense

A good friend of the band talks about the end of the pop music winter, sucking on his herb wick with a big smile on his face and a grin on his face. He feels kidnapped in a moment of fine, sympathetic intelligence, floats through the room, but is suddenly torn out of his lethargy by a sound explosion of a special kind and finds himself dancing under the disco ball.
He feels inspired, liberated, thinks of a colorful trip in the VW hippie bus. The sun rises and he moves with his pretty girl, arm in arm, through unlimited expanses. But even at night, this sound is able to convey a certain warmth, so that the light definitely returns and the recurring fun can be seen in every face...
That's what Don Kurdelius And The Mindless Orchestra aim for: They transport emotions, uncover human madness, cross borders, don't allow themselves to be pigeonholed - sensitive music collages, dancing rhythms, fantastic grooves, glowing harmonies and above all a lot Fun.
From a musical point of view, the band can perhaps be described as follows: They move in a jazzy-funky soul world that is enriched with pop and modern soundscapes. The character of the band from Osnabrück reflects the irrepressible curiosity in experimenting, the limitless expanse of the musical cosmos and the inexhaustible joy of discovering and rewriting our own and foreign universes. They themselves also describe what they do as a cosmopolitan mess, spurred on by their thoughtful playing full of harmony.

1. Again Again
2.Thru The Middle
3. Smile
4. Where The Money
5. Lucky In Love
6. All My Sources
7. Let Me Sway
8. My Game
9. Keep going
10. Let Me Sway (Live)
11. Thru The Middle (Live)

New Zealand bassist, composer and arranger Olivier Holland (who has so far contributed to 23 CD albums or produced them himself) has engaged the crème de la crème of German jazz musicians for “Big Ticket”.
Here four absolute virtuosos bring their unmistakable sound and musical skills together to draw a sound portrait that is unparalleled in terms of uniqueness. “Big Ticket” sounds warm, powerful, full; the compositions - all from Holland's pen - lyrical, powerful, emotional, expressive.
Everything comes together in one sound that, with a dynamic range from quiet to bombastic, must not just be heard, but experienced. A desirable CD album, certainly not only very interesting for jazz fans, but also for lovers of well-made and sounding music.

1. Mister Bombastic
2. TingTingTing
3. Bass drawer
4. A New Day For A New Diet
5. Road kill
6. Gez Aba An ouzo
7. Big ticket
8. Medley: Cliff Walk / Oli’s Blues

The jazz singer Stephanie K. presents her fourth solo album. With her ensemble, she uses emotionally complex songs to illuminate numerous facets of life: love, loss, nostalgia, humor.
Eight of these thirteen pieces are original compositions. In addition, Stephanie K. wrote lyrics for three tracks composed by well-known jazz musicians Joe Locke (A Word Before You Go), Geoffrey Keezer (Honu) and Emanuel Hauptmann (Breaking Ice). Additionally, the album includes interpretations of Joni Mitchel's "Big Yellow Taxi" and Lennon/McCartney's "She's Leaving Home".
We cordially invite you to lose yourself in the magic of this "jazz conversation". Feel how Sebastian Altekamp (piano) and Ingo Senst (bass) harmoniously intertwine the themes of the album. Let yourself be carried away by the wave formed by Christian Schoenefeldt (drums) and Markus Paßlick (percussion) and experience the colorful variety of sounds that Christian Kappe (trumpet/flugelhorn) creates with his instruments.

1. A Word Before You Go
2. Side dish
3. Ignorance Is Bliss
4. Honu
5. Don't Friend Me On Facebook
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Big Yellow Taxi
8. If I Had A Sister
9. Breaking Ice
10. The Bold
11. Watch Your Step
12. Adjusted To Silence
13. Take Me Back

Born in Athens in 1974, drummer Christos Asonitis has been living and playing in Munich since 2012 after years of active presence in the Greek jazz scene. With "An Ode To The Light" he presents his own compositions and arrangements for the first time as a bandleader. Also part of the party: Bastien Rieser, a promising trumpeter, the Hungarian Mark Pusker with the warm and brilliant sound of his saxophone, the multi-creative Maruan Sakas on the piano and the coveted double bass player Lorenz Heigenhuber.
The listeners experience an electrifying symbiosis of modern jazz and elements inspired both by the composer's personal experiences and by historical and mythological events in his homeland. The spectrum ranges from lyrical-melodic moods with fine Greek folklore overtones, polyphonic sound patterns to rousing rhythms that form a virtuoso arc of tension.

"Christos Asonitis is a drummer who is as imaginative as he is unobtrusive, highly cultivated and alert, who elicits a wealth of nuances from the small set and does not slip into routine mechanics." (The New Listener, May 2016)

1. Color En El Oscuro
2. Second Day
3. Fos (An Ode To The Light)
4.Blue&Gray
5. Ta Matoklada Sou Laboun
December 6th
7. Ancient Dance 490 BC

Trio Rosenrot, the second. With the new CD release "Es Fell Ein Reif", the trio Rosenrot continues the concept of bringing German folk songs into the here and now.
The unusual interweaving of influences from world music, classical music and jazz creates disturbingly beautiful arrangements and expressive atmospheres that captivate the listener. You've never heard German folk tunes like this before. Touching music.

01 There sat a small wild bird
02 Once upon a time there were five wild swans
03 A frost fell in the spring night (blue flowers)
04 little sister, when are we going home?
05 Shlof main fegele
06 I don't know what it's supposed to mean (Lorelei)
07 Little bird flies to the nest

Sincere, boundless and direct. "Heartscape" is a personal exploration of our inner world - the world we carry in our hearts.
Musically, the album combines different directions. The atmospheric track number is in stark contrast to the explosive rock song "Space Invaders"; the elemental rhythms of "Unchained" shatter into the heart-rending tender tones of "Never Goorbye" and "Can I go home now?" While it's obvious that the band has roots in the jazz tradition, there's no denying that with Heartscape she also shows clear influences from rock music. Together this results in a mixture of strong rhythms, lyrical melodies and explosions of powerful primal forces.
In the two years following the release of their debut album Country Music, the Sander Baan Quartet toured the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Romania. Released in 2015, the album opened doors for them to well-known stages in Berlin, such as jazz club B-Flat and Kunstfabrik Schlot, and has also led to a successful collaboration with well-known Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma. It was time for a successor. "Heartscape" is a new milestone in the development of the Sander Baan Quartet and brings the group even closer to the pulse of the times.

1. Emotional Landscapes
2. Space Invaders
3. I Didn't Expect To Like You
4. Never Goodbye
5. Unchained
6. Can I Go Home Now?
7. Casual Superhero
8. Northern Sun

Dias Karimov was born in 1983 in Ufa, Russia. He comes from a traditional family of musicians and has been playing the piano since he was six years old. His father, the pianist and composer Airat Karimov, was Dia's classical music teacher during his childhood, teaching him the first steps in improvisation.
In 1990 Dias began his studies at a music high school in the subject "classical piano", which he graduated in 2001 with distinction. In 2005, Dias completed his diploma as a concert pianist at the Ufa Academy, where he accepted an offer to work as a music teacher shortly thereafter.
His love of jazz and improvisation brought Dias to Weimar in 2008, where he studied jazz piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He then dedicated his skills to various crossover projects. He is currently working as a lecturer at the Music Academy in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main. He also plays solo concerts and has performances with various other musicians from different styles.
Dia's new album "ImPuls" is dedicated to his father Airat Karimov. This CD contains pieces by Airat Karimov, Elmer Szentirmay, arrangements by Jazz Standards and his own compositions. On this album, Dias Karimov plays a hundred-year-old Schiedmayer piano.

1. Elegy
2. Pulse
3.SweetSue
4. Billie's Bounce
5. Lover
6. I See The Rain
7. There's Only One Girl In The World

The trio around pianist Jan Alexander is constantly searching for the unknown within a familiar context. The three musicians use their own compositions from the field of modern jazz as a starting point and framework for the new exploration of apparent circumstances. It is no coincidence that the pieces deal with themes such as restlessness, being on the lookout and change.
With Michael Knippschild on drums and Calvin Lennig on double bass, Jan Alexander has found fellow musicians who give him the foundation and space to improvise freely and without restrictions.
With "Of Memories To Come" the trio will release their debut album in October 2019. The Cologne trumpeter Heidi Bayer can be heard as a feature guest on three songs.

Jan Alexander - piano, synthesizer
Calvin Lennig - double bass
Michael Knippschild - drums
Special Guest: Heidi Bayer - flugelhorn

01 Sublime
02 Of Memories To Come
03 Finding Happiness (Interlude)
04 Hastily Hesitant 05 Fumblin'
06 On The Verge (feat. Heidi Bayer)
07 Hiking
08 Ease My Mind
09 Reprise (Interlude)
10 Tightrope Walk (feat. Heidi Bayer)
11 Mantra (feat. Heidi Bayer)

Inspired by the melodies of folk music, the ensemble creates a soundscape that on the one hand offers enough space for each melody and on the other hand gives the eight musicians room for creative improvisations. Both when selecting the songs and when arranging them, the aim was to portray the different moods and colors of winter and the contemplative nature of the Christmas season. The arranger Vincent Dombrowski used a wide variety of musical style elements for this. In addition to quiet, contemplative sounds, dark and stressful phases also find their way into the music again and again. The ensemble tries to present the contrasts of the cold season in their music and to show the magic of these very contrasts.
In addition to the melodic level, Helena Benkendorff's voice also brings the lyrical into play. She sings the well-known lyrics in English, German and Norwegian. Her voice, sometimes powerful and loud, sometimes fragile and magical, enchants the listener with the emotion of a clear timbre.
Nordsnø Ensemble uses the size of its line-up to create smaller ensembles from within. The right cast is chosen for each piece in order to create the desired mood and to awaken feelings or memories of winter and the Advent season in the audience.

01 Varvinda Friska
02 A rose has sprung
03 River
04 White Coat
05 What Child Is This
06 Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker
07 Fragile
08 Upraised
09 Maria went through a thorn forest
10 Maria Går Blant Tornekratt
11 Na Tennes Tusen Julelys

A swirling maelstrom that disappears into an extinct, subterranean giant volcano. It is an eternal interplay between falling into the infinite depths of the sea and the thrill of taking risks on the edge of the eddy to enjoy the danger. In any case, there is no security. Fish and other sea creatures instinctively avoid the vicinity of the whirlpool, while humans, over and over again, fall prey to their uncontrollable curiosity and dare to get too close.

"With guitar, saxophone and drums, Axel Zajac, Salim Javaid and Jo Beyer create more colors and associative spaces than you would expect from the small cast and have so much fun with deconstruction that their music becomes an all-round humorous commentary on the possibilities of contemporary jazz becomes. Reason enough to present them with the 7th European Burghausen Jazz Prize for Young Talent,” explains the jury. (March 18, 2015, JazzZeitung editors)

"[...] For example, the band "Malstrom" performed, a trio with an unusual line-up: a saxophonist, a guitarist and a drummer interpreted their own pieces such as "A green meadow with colorful flowers on it". Axel Zajac took part his unconventional eight-string guitar, no less unconventional exchanges of blows with saxophonist Salim Javaid. Melodically beautiful passages were countered with experimental-associative ones, ingrained listening habits evaporated." (Tom Bullmann, NOZ, July 2014)

"The music of the three is a perfectly played mixture of progressive rock by bands like "Dream Theater" or "Tool" and guitar virtuosos like Yngwie Malmsteen and intricate jazz by Steve Coleman or the expressiveness of John Zorn. But there is also a youthful innocence and freshness that is fun. Of course, those who expected swing or hard bop were disappointed. But those who took the time to listen to and experience this music experienced a concert to marvel at. Every break sits, nothing crunches there, the innumerable rhythms change into even more intricate ones; it took a reasonably ambitious musician weeks to practice the melodic lines casually delivered by sax and guitar. Perhaps it was a courageous decision to open the Jazz Week with such an edgy contribution, but it's definitely a very good one." (BR blog, Ulrich Habersetzer, March 19, 2015)

01 Bubble Tea Ache Part 1
02 The revenant
03 The fee
04 A Green Meadow With Colorful Flowers On It Part 1
05 The Reptilian Shapeshifter
06 Can't Hold Us Down
07 A Green Meadow With Colorful Flowers Part 2
08 blood toll
09 Bubble Tea Ache Part 2
10 The suburban kids

The popular swing band with singer Wilma Pilz, guitarist Hansi Reinhardt, bassist Willem Tönsing and accordionist Thorsten Stracke has dedicated itself to cultivated light music and plays a successful mixture of jazz standards, swing and evergreens - exclusively on acoustic instruments and in a contemporary interpretation. The charming singer and her musicians enrich their consistently catchy repertoire with wit and speed, always in contact with their audience. On their current CD "Swing modern", the combo helps well-known jazz chansons by Hildegard Knef, Caterina Valente, Marlene Dietrich, but also Louis Primo and Charles Trenet to breathe fresh air: uptempo versions with virtuoso solos let the classics shine in a new light. The exquisite production will please even the most discerning of ears, the album is also available as a Hi Res Audio version.

01 I knew that straight away
02 Bel Ami
03 I don't know who I belong to
04 gigolo
05 If I could have a wish
06 What remains of us
07 It's supposed to rain red roses for me
08 illusions
09 whoopie
10 Gisela
11 Tonight of all days
12 It was always so nice with you
13 We'll see each other then

Frank Muschalle has been touring throughout Europe for over 20 years and is now one of the world's most sought-after Boogie Woogie pianists. He played over 2000 concerts all over Europe, Paraguay, Bolivia, USA and North Africa. 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 and as part of his tours he played and recorded with musicians such as Red Holloway, Lousiana Red, Carry Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Rusty Zinn, Axel Zwingenberger, Bob Margolin, Vince Weber, Carey Bell and many others
He has since released twelve albums and the current CD is a live recording from Vannes/France, piano solo, recorded in April 2015 with 17 titles, 10 of which are his own compositions.

01 Blue Mor-Bihan
02 Arradon Arrivals
03 More sweets darling
04 Slot car Boogie
05 Mr Freddie Blues
06 Cooney Vaughn's Tremblin' Blues
07 Born's Boogie
08 Vannes'n'Waltz
09 Nod To Wilson
10 Sheik Of Araby

It's about love, it's about space, it's about lab rats, it's about Vikings, it's about telling the bartender your life story at the counter, it's about making people do big and start small, it's about being lost and still going on, it's about Music, always about music. And above all, singer Annika Jonsson likes to tell stories. Those she has experienced or would have liked to have experienced. Like the ones where a space traveler flies as far as he can and then looks back at Earth and is amazed by its beauty.

01 Strangers At Night
02 The Last Days of Jazz
03 Kanske
04 Space
05 My Romance
06 Since you've been gone
07 Until you came into my life
08 Waste
09 Raindrops
10 rennet rat

Rejuvenation - rejuvenation, refreshment - is one of Florian Brandl's own compositions, which determines the concerts of this Munich jazz quartet, and serves as a musical idea.
On their CD debut, the four musicians play intensive and energetic music full of youthful freshness and lightness. Role models from hard bop, mainstream and modern jazz cannot be ignored and flow into an individual band sound, which above all gives a lot of space to the interaction between the musicians who love to play.

01 Second Coffee
02 Boraros ter
03 Winter In June
04 Quaderno
05 rejuvenation
06 Sicilian girl
07 Love Song
08 Dis-oriented
09 Big Breath
April 10 crap

The improvisation band "graswaechstueberall" began in 2010 to discover their very own, almost pop-music-like way of improvising. Since then, the duo around guitarist Dillon Schulz and bassist Andreas Müller have been constantly working on developing and refining them. They recorded this work in many recording sessions. Jazz? Jazz too!

01 12 birds
02 It's No Rain
03 heart
04 Something under the bed
05 qui qui
06 Galactica
07 Run rabbit run

Dias Karimov was born in 1983 in Ufa, Russia. He comes from a traditional family of musicians and has been playing the piano since he was 6 years old. His father, pianist and composer, Airat Karimov was his classical music teacher during Dia's childhood, taught him the first steps in improvisation and still looks over his shoulder when he composes. In 1990, Dias began studying classical piano at a music high school, graduating in 2001 with distinction. In 2005, Dias completed his diploma as a concert pianist at the Ufa Academy, where he accepted an offer to work as a music teacher shortly thereafter.
His love of jazz and improvisation brought Dias to Weimar in 2008, where he completed his jazz piano studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He then dedicates his skills to various crossover projects. He is currently working as a lecturer at the Music Academy in Frankfurt am Main. He also plays solo concerts, as well as performances with different musicians and styles.
“I played a lot of classical music - pieces like the ones on the CD. Not just jazz, but also their own interpretations of classical music. The pieces were part of my diploma and with this CD I can remember it. With great respect for the composer.”

01 Ludwig van Beethoven - 1st movement
02 Ludwig van Beethoven - 2nd movement
03 Ludwig van Beethoven - 3rd movement
04 Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
05 Modest Mussorgsky: The Old Castle From Pictures At An Exhibition

Under the direction of producers Eddie Nünning and Helge Beckmann, the Swingle Sisters and their top-class fellow musicians have created a first CD of particular versatility and freshness. Well-known evergreens such as "Bei mir bist du scheen" or "Mr. Sandman" sound just as smart and powerful as fresh musical and pop songs from "Seasons of Love" to Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror".
The vocals by Vivien Janelt (soprano), Antje Stahl (mezzo) & Silvy Lamprecht (alto) sound like they were made of one piece and goes perfectly with the brilliant accompaniment by Thomas Meyer (piano), Eberhard Schröder (bass) & Jürgen Peiffer (drums) agree: catchy tunes greedily eat their way through the auditory canals, legs bob, fingers snap and an ecstatic grin spreads across the faces - the best entertainment in a swing mood is guaranteed! 

01 I'm so excited
02 Boogie woogie bugle boy
03 Make your own kind of music
04 I'm gonna sit right down...
05 Just the way you are
06 You are beautiful with me
07 Blackbird
08 Route 66
09 Rum and Coca Cola
10 On the sunny side of the street
11 Man in the mirror
12 Mr Sandman
13 seasons of love
14 Ain't no mountain high enough
15 The parting glass

One of the most seductive voices in town.
Anna takes her listeners on a journey and immerses them in a world of great emotions. With devotion to music and unique passion, Anna Leman sings her way into the hearts of her audience. In 2007, the Munich jazz singer made her debut as a composer and lyricist with her album "Moonhours". In 2010 the second album "Spuren" followed.
For her new album "About Dreams" she was able to win musicians from the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for her great jazz cast. Leman's music moves smoothly between different genres. Jazz, pop and classical elements naturally flow into each other and offer a variety of tones and moods. The current stage program consists of songs from the three albums.

01 Dreamer
02 Unreachable Dreams
03 Grey
04 Sunny Day
05 Heartburned
06 Day By Day
07 Once
08 So close to heaven
09 Right From The Start
10 Poor Boy
11 Sunrise

"Mitten ins Blau" is the new album by the Jorinde Jelen Band, which will be released in November 2014 on Timezone Records. The 10 songs are a jazzy declaration of love to the night and a musical dialogue with the lyrics. The beguiling, nocturnal thoughts of Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann Wolfgang Goethe or Christian Morgenstern merge with the unique musical sound of the six-piece band and the charismatic voice of Jorinde Jelens.

01 Night Song
02 Behind everything is a place
03 Ah, in my wild heart
04 Summer song
05 migratory bird
06 It is night
07 closeness of the beloved
08 The hermit
09 Happy Nocturne
Saying 10 to sleep