On Blue Apple, organ is added to the instrumentation, yet the ride does not slow down. A blistering pace is set until "Psalm," a dreamy floating piece so the band can take a breath before fueling the blast furnace for the final assault. Great rock and roll.
The album was recorded in Hamburg at Teldec Studios with Hartmann and Thomas Kukuck engineering. Both Gift albums are fine examples of German heavy progressive rock. Originals of their first album sell for more than 100 Euros.

Let yourself be enchanted by the unusual meeting of the western piano guided by Jean-Phillippe Collard Neven and the oriental oud handled by Nasser Houari. This Belgian-Moroccan duo gives pride of place to improvisation on classics of Arabic music such as "Mawlid annour" by Mohamed Abdelwahab, "Longa farahfaza" by Riad Al Sumbati or some of their own compositions.

With his latest project 'Bughouse' Dutch based saxophonist Benjamin Herman has finally found the perfect musicians to realize a long-cherished dream of forming a punk jazz quartet. Although Benjamin is a now a seasoned jazzhead with well-earned credentials he was very much influenced by the DIY mentality that was part of the punk ethics in the late seventies. "I started off playing drums when I was nine years old. Everyone in the neighbourhood was into music and everyone was in a band. All these bands made their own records took care of their own artwork and arranged their own gigs. I always thought that was really cool. Later on in life that helped motivate me to have a life in music on my own terms."

In the past 12 years Peter Gall made a name for himself as masterful meter and composer in various bands, for instance Subtone (including Florian Hoefner, Magnus Schriefl and Matthias Pichler) or with Roberto Di Gioia’s Web Web (including Tony Lakatos). Gall’s drumming can be heard on roughly 30 albums to date, among them his brother Chris’ trio Blume (with Schriefl, Wanja Slavin, Bernhard Meyer), the Rainer Böhm Quartet, Torsten Goods and Enik; furthermore he was engaged by luminaries like Kurt Rosenwinkel or Thomas Quasthoff, only to name a few. Now he presents his first own production, Paradox Dreambox. It doesn’t spring exuberant drumming on the listener, but rather allures with melodious lines and multilayered arrangements, nuanced band interactions and latent energy even in quieter passages.

Lorenzo Naccarato is back, with his trio. His second opus, "Nova Rupta", is worthy of the promises that had been raised by the first, in 2016. Better, the whole has matured. In cohesion. Without giving up an iota of what was already his power of seduction. Namely, it immediately devastates the listener. Take him on a dreamlike journey. An enchanted world - and enchanting. A music in movement. Kinetic, or kinematic.

The Blues is and always has been a source of inspiration for Samuel Blaser. Touched by the expressiveness of this style, the multi-faceted virtuoso trombonist uses all the resources of today’s jazz and yesterday’s to make its heritage bear fruit in a contemporary vision. Early in the Mornin’, produced by Robert Sadin, aims to celebrate the universality of the Blues and takes its place as a unique album midway between jazz and modern urban music. On this album, Samuel Blaser reinterprets the tunes that lie at the origin of the Blues, derived from work songs, country music or English and Irish folk music.

Bob Baldwin continues to unload catalog in continuance of his 30-year artist anniversary with his latest Beatles Tribute release "Bob Baldwin Presents Abbey Road and the Beatles", while the single "Club Life" features a record 10 soloists on one track.

Au beau milieu d’une nuit de juin 2016, je me réveille avec un flash lumineux et sonore, je viens de rêver de théorie musicale (fait rare !) et la phrase suivante tourne dans ma tête : « Chaque intervalle musical connaît son apogée à différents moments de l’histoire du langage tonal occidental.»

"If now the intelligent phenomenon Thundercat alias Stephen Bruner came from a small Swedish town instead of Los Angeles, he would be called Cassius Lambert alias Pelle Lindsjö. Cassius Lambert is bassist like Thundercat. The musical starting point is hip hop, funk and fusion jazz with many freedoms. The similarities are many. However, the most striking similarity is the ability to keep an eye on some complicated events where recognisability is allowed to prevail with the unknown. Cassius Lambert holds many balls in the air and also throws the juggler up into the air. It sounds wild in writing. It's also when listening."

LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically-acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this box set offers listeners the definitive account of Gardiner’s unique take on Mendelssohn with the London Symphony Orchestra: a blend between the conductor’s wide-ranging expertise and the Orchestra’s signature sound.

Clara Vuust is a Danish jazz singer from Copenhagen, a capital of jazz in Northern Europe and once home to great musicians such as Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon… ​

No Fear of Differences The shortest distance between two points, Archimedes wrote, is a straight line. Music, however, is rarely about finding the shortest distance. The curved and winding trajectories of Vittorio Mezza and Mark Ginsburg's collaboration would certainly prove to be far more exciting and fruitful than any straight line ever could have been. For them, making music is about allowing contrasts to blend into something new, it is akin to two worlds slowly closing in on each other - occasionally clashing, at times overlapping.