Africa
€18.99*
Laura Marti
Pop Jazz / Smooth Jazz
Format:
CD
Das Projekt "AFRICA" ist der Musik des berühmten schwedischen Kontrabassisten und Komponisten Lars Danielsson gewidmet.
Laura und Lars trafen sich 2018 auf der Hauptbühne des Leopolis Jazz Festes in der Ukraine, wo Lars' Komposition ‚Granada‘ aufführten. Laura hatte hierfür den ukrainischen Text geschrieben. Beeindruckt von der Zusammenarbeit mit einem ihrer Lieblingskomponisten, beschloss Laura, weitere Texte für Lars' Musik zu schreiben. Lars bat darum, dass alle Texte ausschließlich auf Ukrainisch verfasst werden, weil es so gut klingt. Später lud Laura Marti ihre Freundin, die berühmte ukrainische Jazzpianistin Nataliya Lebedeva, zum ""Tribute to Lars Danielsson""-Projekt ein, um neue Arrangements für 9 von Lars Songs zu schaffen.
LAURA MARTI ist eine Jazz-, Ethno- und Popsängerin, Komponistin, Schauspielerin und Model. Eine stolze Ukrainerin mit armenischen Wurzeln und brasilianischem Herzen.
Laura kam Ende März 2022 aus der Ukraine nach Deutschland. Im September 2022 hat Laura Musiker aus der Ukraine eingeladen und zwei Jazz-Alben in Deutschland aufgenommen. Die besonderen Gäste, die die Ukraine auch während des Krieges in vollem Umfang unterstützen, waren große Freunde von Laura: Lars Danielsson und Magnus Öström.
Art of the Duo
€11.00*
Daniel Schnyder & David Taylor
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
With Art Of The Duo the two well travelled musicians Daniel Schnyder and David Taylor explore some of the exiting possibilities of the duo format and use the very uncommon duo-constellation of saxophone and bass trombone.
Atomic B
€18.99*
Tobias Becker Bigband
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
Most of the compositions on Atomic B. were written by Tobias Becker and Alexander Bu?hl and shape the original profile of the Jazz orchestra. Beside that, the Tobias Becker Bigband also takes care of the 'classic' big band repertoire.
Basic Soul Encoder
€18.99*
Verworner-Krause-Kammerorchester
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
A driving rhythm andelectronic beats accompanied by a delicate string sound and a melancholic voice. The Verworner-Krause-Kammerorchester (VKKO) connects contrasted music styles and creates with Basic Soul Encoder a new sound universe.
BEAT
€18.99*
Grand Ensemble Koa
Jazz Rock / Fusion
Format:
CD
Driven by the pulsation of the "Beat Generation" intellectual and literary movement, the French jazz ensemble Grand Ensemble Koa follows Jack Kérouac’s, Allen Ginsberg’s and William Burroughs’ steps and set the contrarian poets’ texts to music, interpreted by the luminous voice of Caroline Sentis.
« I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix... » Allen Ginsberg, Howl, 1956
The "Beat Generation" is a literary and intellectual movement popularized throughout the 1950s, which tried to cast off the "American Way of Life", to get freedom of thought, of dream, of living life to the full.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Howl by Allen Ginsberg and Naked Lunch by William Burroughs are ones of the main works describing this way of life, the base of activism which shaped the second part of the 20th century...
Crossing modern jazz and progressive rock, the third album of Grand Ensemble Koa, "BEAT", gets inspiration from important Beat Generation poets’ texts and sets them to music, carried of by the voice of Caroline Sentis and compositions of bassist Alfred Vilayleck.
Grand Ensemble Koa is a large ensemble of 8 musicians playing an electric and innovating jazz, mixing improvisations, contemporary composition's techniques, sophisticated grooves and electro-rock sounds. The band was created in 2008 by the bass player and composer Alfred Vilayleck.
In 2010, Grand Ensemble Koa worked on a creation inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu-Roi, made of contemporary compositions, satirical theatre and soundpainting. The album "Koa-Roi" was released in 2012, and received the "Jazz album revelation" by the French magazine "Jazzman".
Line-Up:
Alfred Vilayleck – bass, compositions, direction
Matthieu Chédeville – soprano saxophone
Armel Courrée – Alto saxophone
Jérôme Dufour – Tenor saxophone
Pascal Bouvier – trombone
Samuel Mastorakis – vibraphone
Daniel Moreau – keyboards
Julien Grégoire – drums
Caroline Sentis - vocals
Beat My Dog
€11.00*
Verena Nübel Quartett
Mainstream Jazz
Format:
CD
Beat my Dog is the debut CD by the Verena Nu?bel Quartett. With an edge and a wink the band introduces its album, which is as colourful as life itself. Sometimes the songs are thoughtful and sad, sometimes psyched and happy.
Blossom
€8.00*
Ana Mai
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
The Cologne based band Ana Mai with its debut album Blossom creates an atmospheric indie jazz between melancholy and a new start, which tells onomatopoeically from the peculiarities of daily life.
Bosque
€18.99*
Focusyear Band
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
The Focusyear Band 21 presents itself extremely international: The singer Tatjana Nova grew up in Moscow and came to Dresden at the age of 19. Besides the saxophonists Joshua Schofield (England) and Gianni Gagliardi (Spain), Yakiv Tsvietinskyi from the Ukraine and Sebastián Greschuk from Argentina play trumpet and flugelhorn as well as valve trombone. Pianist Lorenzo Vitolo is from Naples, he studied in Groningen and qualified for the Frauenfeld Generations Unit in 2018. Bassist Ethan Cohn is from New Yorke who graduated from Montreal - and Áron Tálas from Hungary he is as well a drummer and pianist.
Each year, the ensemble is reassembled from a large number of international applications. Focusyear Band 21 has very quickly found its own sound and is characterized by a high level of sound awareness and a willingness to take risks and improvise. After many intensive weeks with prominent coaches, the eight young musicians now present a selection of their own compositions that were created during the year.
On BOSQUE we hear a finely differentiated, homogeneous ensemble with great soloists. The example of the young Italian pianist Lorenzo Vitolo, whose far-reaching improvisations and masterful compositions foreshadow a great career, makes it clear which musical values are attracted and deepened by Focusyear: Interactivity, sonic awareness, compositional originality, music-making at eye level beyond hierarchies or ideologies, and a conscious, pleasurable use of the language of jazz.
Broken Land
€18.99*
Initiative H
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
After two critically acclaimed albums, DEUS EX MACHINA and DARK WAVE, the French Bigband Initiative H is releasing a third opus; BROKEN LAND, modeled on Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" or Moussorgsky's "Pictures of an Exhibition".
The origin of this album is tied to a climatological study. In this, it is assumed that we have reached the "climatic point of no return" since 3rd August 2017.
BROKEN LAND embodies the sound and visual soundtrack of this dark assessment; a sombre and imposing, but also fragile and intimate piece of music that allows the listener to glide into an imaginary road movie.
Far from fatalism, this album also creates a consciousness that conveys hope; to fight and not give up. BROKEN LAND provides a new impetus - strong, sensitive and bright all at the same time.
Founded in 2012 by David Haudrechy, Initiative H took the ambitious challenge to create a dense, modern and passionate music transcending the genres jazz, rock, electro and 20th century music. The powerful sound of this 21st century orchestra is fed by the energy of a big collective project where each musician has its certain place. The interpretation is masterly, the engagement absolute and the listener will be completely absorbed by the telling power of this music. A musical adventure, human, urban, which makes Initiative H an unavoidable entity of the renovation of the French jazz scene.
Considering his passion for surfing, snowboarding and skating, the genre crossover in saxophonist David Haudrechyʼs music is more than understandable. The thrill, the shiver, the risk, all sensations are also part of the iconic picture of „Dark Wave“, under the direction and composition of David Haudrechy. He developed his own, liberate, musical language as much inspired by Berlioz and Moussorgski as by Gill Evans, Carla Bley, but also King Crimson and Arvo Pärt. Unexpected and paradox like in a slalom is the musical process between the different projects surrounding the band.
Line-Up:
David Haudrechy - soprano saxophone, composer, direction, voice, additional sound
Ferdinand Doumerc - alto saxophone, flute
Gaël Pautric - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Nicolas Gardel - trumpet
Cyril Latour - trumpet
Olivier Sabatier - trombone, additional sound
Lionel Segui - bass trombone
Amaury Faye - piano, rhodes
Olivier Cussac - synthesizer
Florent Hortal – guitar
Pascal Celma - electric bass
Pierre Pollet - drums
Florent « Pepino » Tisseyre - percussions
feat. La Lauzeta - vocals (tracks 1 & 9)
Classical to Jazz one
€12.99*
Olivia Trummer
Classical-Jazz-Crossover
Format:
CD
With her project Classical to Jazz Olivia Trummer proves with vibraphonist J.-L. Treboux., that antipodes not only attract each other, but can complete each other as well. She merges the two contradictory genres jazz and classical music.
Danzon Cubano (Live at Viersen)
€18.99*
Marialy Pacheco Trio & WDR Funkhausorchester
Mainstream Jazz
Format:
CD
It's a bit like when aspiration and entertainment merge; a metaphorical marriage between serious music and music of entertainment - but which is which? "Danzón Cubano" is a blend of Marialy Pacheco on the grand piano along with her fellow musicians Juan Camilo Villa on bass and Rodrigo Villalón on the drums and as “special guest” Joo Kraus on the one hand, and the WDR Funkhausorchester, conducted by Gordon Hamilton, on the other.
With this combination, Marialy Pacheco playfully and expertly climbs new musical heights; reaches a new world; a new mix; a dance of sound between Cuban and classical music. In doing so, the fiery solo pianist and polyphonic orchestra play together and allow completely new experiences to be felt with each piece, rather than alternating between one another.
Above all, they are playing for the big audience. Melodies glisten, waves of harmonies explode; and suddenly all of our senses are awoken.
This is what happened in 2017 at the International Jazz Festival in Viersen. Before the concert, one may have been wondering: is the trio of the Cuban pianist Marialy Pacheco really going to play with the WDR Funkhausorchester at a jazz festival?! How is that going to work and how will that sound? All of these questions were answered directly at the start of the concert. With Baby Steps First, composed by conductor Gordon Hamilton and inspired by John Coltrane's jazz classic Giant Steps, the orchestra kicks off with a jazzy prelude and spreads its wings into different music genres: the perfect introduction.
And then she comes: Marialy Pacheco. She brings music from her Cuban roots, from Central America and her own compositions which she arranged for the orchestra together with Hamilton. Her traditional melodies immediately hit the spot with the audience, along with variations, improvisations and a mesmerising interplay with her trio partners, Juan Camilo Villa and Rodrigo Villalón, who put even the most subtle of musical signals from their band leader into action.
All in all: music with mainstream potential but without the risk of ever becoming a bore. The rich sound and hot rhythm are enough to make seating at concerts seem absurd. "Danzón Cubano" becomes an experience; not just for the concert pros but also for the unbiased listener. This is a magnificent album full of energy which you can easily keep up with and in which brilliance is maintained in every single beat.
LINE-UP:
Marialy Pacheco – Piano
Juan Camilo Villa – Bass
Rodrigo Villalón – Drums
Feat. Joo Kraus – Trumpet
Gordon Hamilton – Conductor
WDR Funkhausorchester
Das Rainer Trio
€18.99*
Remi Dumoulin / Bruno Ruder / Arnaud Bisclay
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
Rémi Dumoulin offers a repertoire of 8 songs, 6 of those being own compositions. Some are inspired by the film department („Rainer Werner Fassbinder“, „Filature“), whilst others represent a homage to artists (Serguei Prokofiev mit „A Single Melody from the Symphony 6th“, Jack DeJohnette mit „Jack“, Silvio Rodriguez mit «Get Down On Your Knees!“, David Bowie mit „My Plan“).
As a strong fan of movies Rémi Dumoulin interpretes the compositions „Will Someone Ever Look At Me That Way“ by Michel Legrand, sung by Barbra Streisand in the movie „Yentl“. The album closes with a newly arranged version of the song
Das was bleibt
€18.99*
Kicks'n Sticks
Orchestra /Combo
Format:
CD
Kicks’n Sticks ist das professionelle Jazz-Orchester der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar und vereint viele der besten hier lebenden Jazzmusiker. Die bereits seit 2002 bestehende Band umfasst heute einen Musiker-Pool von über 30 Musikern. Kicks’n Sticks hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die gesamte Geschichte und Bandbreite des orchestralen Jazz in künstlerisch hochwertigen Aufführungen zu präsentieren.
Kicks’n Sticks hat u.a. mit Bill Ramsey, Janice Dixon, Xavier Naidoo und Marc Marschall gespielt. Aus diesen vielfältigen Konzerterfahrungen hat sich Kicks’n Sticks über die Jahre ein äußerst umfangreiches Repertoire erarbeitet, das vom Swing der 1930er Jahre bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Uraufführungen reicht.
Die musikalische Leitung der Band verteilt sich heute gleichberechtigt auf Frank Runhof, sowie Martin S. Schmitt und Jochen Welsch, die zudem allesamt als versierte Komponisten und Arrangeure zum eigenständigen Sound von Kicks’n Sticks beitragen.
Der Komponist und Leiter Jochen Welsch schreibt über Das was bleibt:
„Ich suche nicht, ich finde. (…) Das ist also der Wesenszug des modernen Menschen, dass er sich bei aller Angst des Loslassens doch in jeder Situation durch die Möglichkeiten, die immer schon vorhanden sind, getragen weiß.“ Pablo Picasso
Was bleibt von 80 verschiedenen Programmen in über zwölf Jahren? Kein Schall, kein Rauch? Erinnerungen verblassen leise. Es heißt, die Zeit heile alle Wunden. Kann denn sowas überhaupt stimmen?
Alle fünf Jahre ist die Documenta zu Kassel. Wir dokumentieren hier nach 14 Jahren zum zweiten Mal unsere Kunst und unser Handwerk. Die Band spielt längst weiter. Gestern war heute.
Hier und heuer zeigt sich das Jazzorchester der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar - drei Musikalische Leiter, vier Gäste, 22 Musikerinnen und Musiker - als ein Kollektiv aus 29 Teilen, dazu noch Komponisten und Arrangeure, Tonmeister, Designer, Fotografen, Lokomotivführer, Ludwigsburg, Lastkraftwagen, Ludwigshafen, Zimmermädchen, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Köln, Hörerinnen und Hörer, La France, Planet Erde. Wo anfangen und wo mit der Kunst enden?
Und morgen? Kommen Sie uns besuchen, erleben Sie uns eigenverantwortlich, vertrauen Sie sich dem nächsten Schritt an. Zur Zeit dieser Veröffentlichung können Sie uns sechs Mal in der Saison von September bis Mai in der Alten Feuerwache Mannheim erleben; jedes Mal in andrer Gewandung und das schon im zwölften Jahr. Googeln Sie nach Sundaykick, der Konzertreihe der Bigband Kicks’n Sticks.
Wenn Sie ein Haus haben, dann wissen Sie, was da mit der Zeit alles zusammenkommt. Wenn Sie keines haben, dann wissen Sie wohl trotzdem genug, um sich die Unmöglichkeit eines Unterfangens ausmalen zu können, nämlich das Gerecht-Werden dem gegenüber, was der Fall ist - und zwar jetzt, aber auch gegenüber dem, was in 14 Jahren schon alles der Fall gewesen ist. Selbst wenn Sie sich in der materiellen Welt längst davon - ich meine von dem Haus - getrennt haben, bleiben Erinnerungen; gegebenenfalls auch die Erinnerungen anderer Menschen an Sie. Museen sind gute Orte für Erinnerungen und Denkmäler. Letztere stehen oft erhöht da.
Wir wollen hiermit weder Museum noch Denkmal sein, ebensowenig wollen wir ein Best of-Album vorlegen, noch Ihrem hungrigen Geiste und ihrem prallen Portemonnaie ein weiteres Konzeptalbum aufschwatzen. Am Anfang und Ende steht ein Blues. Die Welt sei alles, was der Fall ist, stellte Wittgenstein fest (Tractatus logico-philosophicus: erster Satz) und der Buddha lehrte Konzeptlosigkeit. Die allermeisten Stücke sind Ersteinspielungen. Kann das falsch sein?
Picasso weiter: „Suchen, das ist das (…) Finden-Wollen von etwas Neuem im bereits bekannten. Finden ist etwas völlig anderes. Es ist das Unerwartete. Es ist das Neue, auch in der Bewegung. Das ist ein gewaltiges Wagnis und ein heiliges Abenteuer. Und dieses Abenteuer können nur diejenigen bestehen, (…) die sich in der dunklen Nacht einem unsichtbaren Stern bedingungslos anvertrauen, die sich von ihren Zielen ziehen lassen und ihre Ziele nicht – menschlich klein – selbst bestimmen.
Wir laden Sie ein: Hören Sie hier und jetzt unsere Entscheidungen für Das was bleibt. Funky Boots! Sie sind ein moderner Mensch.
Jochen Welsch
Besetzung:
Woodwinds:
Tim Hurley, Fabian Schöne, Olaf Schönborn, Gary Fuhrmann, Cordula Hamacher, Nicolai Pfisterer, Sebastian Nagler
Trombones:
Marcus Franzke, Garrelt Sieben, Thomas Weiland, Peter Hedrich, Frederic Andrej (b-tb)
Trumpets & Flugelhorns:
Jens Müller, Claus Löhr, Alexander Hartmann, Stephan Udri, Janis Hug, Heiko Hubmann
Rhythmic Section:
Rocco Dürlich (guitar), Volker Engelberth (grand piano, electric piano), Friedrich Betz (double bass, electric bass), Dominik Raab (drums)
Conductors: Frank Runhof, Martin Sebastian Schmitt, Jochen Welsch
Guests: Ingolf Burkhardt (trumpet), Stephanie Neigel (vocal), Juliette Brouset (vocal), Thomas Stabenow (double bass)
Der Wegweiser
€11.00*
Roman Rofalski Trio
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
On Der Wegweiser pianist Roman Rofalski dares the fusion of European art music of the late 19th century and the American Jazz into a fresh and interactive from of trio music.
Deus Ex Machina
€11.00*
Initiative H
Jazz Rock / Fusion
Format:
CD
The Toulouse based big band Initiative H creates a fantastic sound universe with its album Deus Ex Machina. Bandleader and composer David Haudrechy excellently knows to combine dark end time scenarios with gleams of hope of a sunny day.
Die Ankunft
€15.99*
Jin Jim
Mainstream Jazz
Format:
CD
Jin Jim's music has got special rhythms and a very special drive. On Die Ankunft they have their own individual energetic but lyric sound, which lives for improvisation and extraordinary sound effects created by usage of different flutes.
Duets
€18.99*
Marialy Pacheco
Latin Jazz
Format:
CD
Marialy Pacheco meets Hamilton de Holanda, Joo Kraus, Rhani Krija, Max Mutzke, Omar Sosa and Miguel Zenon; six established figures from across the globe, each master of his own craft.With such a wealth of expertise and musicality on hand, a performance featuring all of these artists at the same time would inevitably mean that some aspects would be lost. So instead we have chosen to feature a series of separate ‘rendezvous’. And the Cuban pianist extracts the very best out of each individual encounter. The title of the CD, ‘Duets’, sums up this concept succinctly and although this may sound rather matter-of-fact, more lies behind it - much more.
Chucho Valdes, the grand old man of Cuban jazz, once described the pianist as the greatest of young piano talents. At the time, she had just won a young musicians competition in Cuba, where Valdes headed up the jury. Pachecos’ mother conducts a choir which is famous both in Cuba and further afield. When the choir took part in the Bremen ‘Choir Olympics’ in 2004, Marialy was there and she decided to remain in the city, home of the ‘Stadtmusikanten’ (the town musicians which feature in the famous fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm). After an extended stay in Australia, the pianist returned to Germany. Initially back to Bremen but she now lives in Dortmund. In 2012, Pacheco won the renowned Montreux Solo Piano Competition.
When Marialy Pacheco performs one can truly sense her virtuosity, flair and sheer joy of making music without constraints, set free after her strict classical training. The six fellow musicians who Marialy Pacheco invited to join her in duet at the renowned Bauer Studios in Ludwigsburg could be similarly described. Musical citizens from around the world: a Puerto-Rican who lives in New York (Miguel Zenon), a Cuban whose home is in Barcelona (Omar Sosa), a Moroccan from Cologne (Rhani Krija), a Brazilian conqueror of the music world (Hamilton De Holanda), a trumpet player from Ulm, who recorded one of his albums in Havana (Joo Kraus) and a native of Waldshut-Tiengen, who is known throughout Europe not just for his participation in the Eurovision Song Contest (Max Mutzke). Musicians who are not stylistically blinkered, but who are passionate, individual and authentic and endowed with the virtues which are the basic prerequisites for performing as part of a duo: the ability to listen, to engage fully with their counterpart and to leave their ego at the studio door. [...] In DUETS, Marialy Pacheco practices the most intimate, direct and intensive form of musical exchange and in doing so, throws the door wide open.
East Autumn
€6.99*
Christian Meyers Quintet
Bigband Swing
Format:
CD
Christian Meyers had the classical quintet sound for trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, double bass and drums in mind for a long time. Over the years he wrote more and more songs so eventually it was very natural found the Christian Meyers Quintet.
Easy Listening
€18.99*
Ping Machine
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
Ping Machine released two albums at once: Easy Listening und Ubik. Easy Listening gathers shorter compositions and makes room for lyrical passages, strong and brilliant melodies.
Eleven Things To Say
€18.99*
Jonas Winterhalter Big Band
Modern Jazz
Format:
CD
By means of direct and living dialogue between musicians and audience, the Jonas Winterhalter Big Band finds out what is possible in the Big Band music today: Tradition combined with influences from modern jazz, classical and pop music.
Emma
€18.99*
Paul Jarret
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
The Franco-Swedish guitarist Paul Jarret’s project EMMA is inspired by the wave of Swedish immigration to the United States who happened during the second half of the 19th century. A theme that resonates with many of our contemporary issues.
With his quartet, he creates a chamber-jazz that blurs the lines between improvised, minimalistic and repetitive musics, traditional Swedish music and liturgical musics. EMMA is also inspired by songs evoking exiles and Scandinavian melodies.
After being the ground of the Native Americans nations since the dawn of time, the United States of America started building themselves from the 17th century by welcoming the first explorers, then the successive waves of settlers.
England, Ireland, Italy... A couple of European countries are known for their contribution to colonizing the United States. Sweden was one of them with the massive exodus of the population between 1840 and 1920. Fleeing from the starvation that was happening at that time, but also the economical difficulties caused by the Great Famine from 1867 to 1869, the yoke of the Lutheran church in Sweden, around 1,3 billion Swedes (a fifth of the population) left their country to join the New World. That’s how they participated, as well as many other European migrants, to the foundation of the United States of America.
Emma Jonasson, great-grandmother of the guitarist Paul Jarret, has emigrated to the USA in 1898. She stayed in New-York several years before leaving for Sweden again where she started a family in 1910. She is the main inspiration of the project EMMA. It is also inspired by different documents as The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) by Vilhelm Moberg, a Swedish classical literature that tells the story of a peasant family’s exile.
EMMA is a musical evocation of this Swedish exodus to the United States, unrecognized in France. But it’s also a consideration on the consequences of one’s choices have on their own life and on the future generations, and a metaphorical expression of the contemporary issues.
Espacios Abiertos
€11.00*
Pangea Ultima
Latin Jazz
Format:
CD
Our ancestors were already making music with drums and the sound of their voices when they came to Europe from Africa. The oldest instrument known to this day is a 9000-year-old flute found in China made of the bones of a vulture. Since the beginnings of humankind we have expressed ourselves through music and storytelling: our happiness and sorrows, our fears and hopes. Let this be one contribution more, a further journey through space and time. Best served while cooking, driving and making love.” José Díaz de León
ESPACIOS ABIERTOS (Spanish: Open Spaces”) is the first concept album of the quintet Pangea Ultima. The Origin” and the Future of Humankind” are like a golden thread that runs through the entire album.
Besides the well-known titles Solar by Miles Davis, Alfonsina y el mar by Mercedes Sosa and Spain by Chick Corea the album consists of compositions by the bandleader José Díaz de León. Here he expresses his own bicultural, German-Mexican identity und brings together in his songs authentic African grooves, Western harmonics, Indian sound aesthetics und Latin-American temperament; he collected this extensive material on his musical journeys in Africa, India und Latin America.
The musicians include outstanding instrumentalists of the Cologne World & Jazz Scene: the flautist Daniel Manrique-Smith (leader of the band JIN JIM, Neuklang NCD4112), the bass player Roman Fuchß, the drummer Antonio Fusco and the percussionist Christian Fehre. They come from various styles of music (World, Latin, jazz, funk) which they have developed into their own band sound, combining rhythms and sound aesthetics from all over the world.
Pangea Ultima
... is the brand-new project of the composer and bandleader José Díaz de León. The name of the project refers to the supercontinent that will possibly come into existence in several million years. In this, all the present-day continents will merge into a single entity and all territorial boundaries will be overcome. If in this distant future humankind should still exist, the music of Pangea Ultima would be the soundtrack for it.
Line-Up:
León, José Díaz de – guitar/tres cubano, vocals
Manrique-Smith, Daniel – C-, Alto- & bassflute, vocals
Fuchß, Roman – bass
Fusco, Antonio – drums
Fehre, Christian – percussion
European Hits
€22.98*
Theiler Flisch Renold
Latin Jazz
Format:
LP Audiophil
The greatest european hits, from O Sole Mio, Azzurro, Einsamer Hirte and Über sieben Brücken musst du gehen to On My Way to L.A. and Dragostea Din Tei, reworked by an inter-generational piano trio out of switzerland – a marvelous musical surprise!
Line-Up:
Theiler, Yves – piano
Flisch, Rätus – bass
Renold, Tony – drums
Variants from €11.00*
Exchange
€6.99*
Cholet Känzig Papaux Trio
Vocal Jazz
Format:
CD
Exchange is the seventh album by Cholet Ka?nzig Papaux Trio. It once again illustrates the obvious cohesion of this trio in which striking melodic verve, harmonic hypersensitivity and astonishing rhythmic work balance each other out.