Take a walk through the world famous Cat Head Records in Clarksdale, MS and you will find more than a dozen albums with Bobby Gentilo’s name credited on the jacket.

With "Bucharest 1994" a very special live event is released on CD, which has created something unique in the mediation between classical music and jazz standards

Creation is a gratuitous, free and unpredictable human gesture.

Johanna Martzy (26 October 1924 – 13 August 1979) was a Hungarian violinist.

An all-star ensemble comprising the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the Collective has traditionally assembled each year to create fresh arrangements of works by a modern master and newly commissioned pieces by each member of the band. Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring music’s greatest figures while championing jazz’s up-to-the-minute directions, the Collective has always embodied SFJAZZ’s commitment to jazz as a living, ever-relevant art form.

WildKat Paris is thrilled to promote this new album which will be released on March 18th on NoMadMusic. Stay tuned for their concert in Paris at Athénée on February 14th!

Rogue. Rocker. Texas Texture. Ray Wylie Hubbard made such a mark with Co-Starring, the shape-shifting songwriter decided once was not enough. The louche beacon of cool went even wider into his coterie of confidantes, emerging with Co-Starring Too, featuring Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, and Ann Wilson to name a few. Always eviscerating songwriting, this is a post-Outlaw Country take on what it means to be unafraid of a good time and a romantic wildly committed to the ideals of the heart.

Pour son troisième album Artalinna, après Haydn, Schumann et Sterndale Bennett, le Japonais Hiroaki Takenouchi nous invite à redécouvrir trois cycles méconnus de variations, dont la somptueuse et très ambitieuse Ballade de Grieg, composée dans les années 1875-1876 et inspirée d’un chant populaire populaire norvégien de la région de Valdres qui se situe à mi-chemin entre Bergen et Oslo.

Acadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc chose traditional songs that range from the serious to the comical and arranged them in collaboration with Bergeron, Lauzer, and Nadeau-Tremblay. “My interest in traditional Acadian songs began some twenty years ago, and I have since recorded three albums of this repertoire with ATMA Classique”, says LeBlanc. “The majority of these songs come from France. But songs, just like peoples, are nomadic: they have no borders!” “The common airs de cour may have crossed the Atlantic stowed in the baggage of musicians and noblemen” says LeBlanc. “The French nobility who settled in Quebec in the 17th century wanted to reproduce the glories of Versailles, and some of these airs could have reached the shores of Shippagan”.

AOR legends FM are back in business with their brand new opus simply entitled "Thirteen"…

The »Iguazú« stands for »Big Water« in the native language and flows through southern Brazil before it flows into the Paraná at the border with Argentina. Shortly before the mouth it "says goodbye" with one of the largest waterfalls on earth, in the center of which the Garganta de Diabolo (Devil's Throat) opens up. The Argentinian guitarist (and lutenist) Eduardo Egüez and his international ensemble La Chimera take the diversity of the landscape along the 1,300 km of this river as a model and present South American "classics" from folk to classical, tango, jazz and bossa nova.

Koma Saxo is a highly potent new five-piece produced by the visionary Berlin-based Swedish bassist-producer Petter Eldh. The lineup brings together five heavy jazz names on the Berlin–Nordics axis, including Eldh on bass, Christian Lillinger on drums and the frontline of three saxes: Otis Sandsjö, Jonas Kullhammar and Mikko Innanen. Despite the top-billing names, make no mistake: this is not just another "supergroup", but a real working band with their own sound and musical trajectory.Eldh's vision for the Koma Saxo sound is one step ahead of what groovy avantgarde jazz could sound like in 2019, involving postproduction work with the raw material recorded in Helsinki in connection to Koma Saxo's successful debut at the We Jazz Festival. Both studio and live tapes exist side by side, and Eldh goes deep in molding the final music to be heard on the upcoming Koma Saxo releases.

The ensemble focuses on the repertoires of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is distinguished by its in-depth knowledge of the art of diminution, historical instrumentation, and a desire to expand the idiomatic limits of its instruments. This last aspect is illustrated in this very virtuosic programme, put together in 2020 and entitled “Stadtpfeifer, Piffari, musique à cinq souffleurs”.

Argentina is a land of myth as much as a land of history. It was here that Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso sailed for such memorable performances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires during their summer vacations. European musicians flocked to Argentina during the Second World War as a safe haven and because they felt at home with the elegance of the European-styled theaters, audiences, and ambiance. Additionally the vastness of the landscape and the huge Argentine ranches gave the country a cultural aspect reminiscent of the famed “American West” of the 1890s. But the open ranges still exist in Argentina today.