AND STILL WE SINGWDR BIG BAND COLOGNE conducted by Magnus Lindgren Dutch Singing Sensation Fay Claassen Joins Belgian Singer-Composer-Lyricist David Linx and the WDR Big…
EMPATHYFive Improvised Soundscapes 2016-2020 Jazz, it is often said, is a community, a family of relationships, built on the strength of common experience. As the…
Be Satisfied and Happy with YourselfWhen Wes Montgomery travelled to Hamburg from London in April of 1965 he was most probably accompanied by the saxophonist…
Millstream A spirited free-thinker and committed non-conformist, saxophonist-composer Shawn Maxwell is clearly courting another kind of muse. “Jackie McLean and Cannonball Adderley are two of…
God Is A Drummer THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM BY MASTER DRUMMER TRILOK GURTU Throughout his illustrious career, master drummer and world music pioneer Trilok Gurtu…
Chunks and Chairknobs It’s only natural that pianist Jim Beard and guitarist Jon Herington would strike the kind of special accord heard throughout this intimate…
BILL LAURANCE & WDR Big Band Köln, conducted by Bob Mintzer Live at the Philharmonie, Cologne A charter member of the three-time Grammy Award winnig, internationally acclaimed…
THE EAST END feat. Etienne Mbappe, Wolfgang Haffner & WDR Big Band Cologne, arranged and conducted by Michael Abene The Cologne Stadtgarten venue was crammed…
w/WDR BIG BAND HOMECOMING Homecoming. It is hardly surprising that several jazz compositions are known by this name. Especially for the continuously travelling improvisers, those…
RIO For centuries, the world's best musicians have built bridges between cultures. They cross borders, blur lines between our similarities and differences, and bring…
INBORN with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, George Mraz, Adam Nussbaum, John Scofield This recording, done in 1989 in New York City at Clinton Studios demonstrates some of the essence…
FIRE w/ DAVE HOLLAND JACK DEJOHNETTE KENNY WERNER The Elements: Fire The four elements found in the natural world (Air, Fire, Water, Earth) represent the…
Steppin’ Out Like Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers from another era, Steps Ahead is a longstanding institution of higher education that has graduated a…
ETERNAL VOICES This release celebrates the 50th year anniversary of Lieb and I meeting, playing and recording our music together. It has been an amazing…
1987-1990 Let’s face it. Not everybody hearing the name Cologne Big Band immediately thinks of Michael Villmow’s KölnBigBand. It seems certain that a Cologne Big…
At Home away from Home It was certainly not the case that Hannover suddenly had become one of the world’s blues-metropolis – but surprisingly enough, in…
Evocating Ghosts The voice of this singer seemed to originate in another world. Perhaps it was at home in some wild jungle…Esther Phillips went stalking…
Vote Dizzy! Considering the current developments on the market for Presidents of the United States one should probably remind the public, that even this strange…
Audio-Lesson When the band of a percussionist conquers the concert stages, then an emancipation of a particular kind is always part of the story. Although,…
Reverberations from the Future and the Past Just recently two brilliant minds of modern jazz celebrated a truly exceptional anniversary. David Liebman, the 1946 born…
1959 BONN, BEETHOVENHALLE “I replied, slowly getting concerned that, after five years of drawing room jazz from the 18th Century, I no longer would be…
1960 ESSEN, GRUGAHALLE The band that would go down in history as the "classic Brubeck Quartet": Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Gene Wright, Joe Morello, was…
1961 COLOGNE, GÜRZENICH CONCERT HALL In the 1950s Oscar Peterson managed to form the best paid jazz trio without percussion instruments. The resignation of his…
CHRISTMAS REVISITED 2007 AT STADTGARTEN, COLOGNE Christmas Revisited is one of the last recordings of guitarist, singer and composer Hiram Bullock, who died in New…
BUDDY DEFRANCO QUARTET LIVE IN COLOGNE 1954 1954 had quite some jazz celebrities in stock for Germany: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet,…
LIVE IN DÜSSELDORF 1960 Impresario Norman Granz had moved to Switzerland in 1959. He coordinated his JATP-tours from there, which at that time were only…
BENNY CARTER SEXTET LIVE IN COLOGNE 1961 In September 1959 Julian Adderley left Miles Davis' band and established a quintet together with his brother Net,…
LIVE IN COLOGNE 1963 Fast auf den Tag genau zwei Jahre zuvor hatte das Oscar Peterson Trio an gleicher Stelle gastiert (ebenfalls ein WDR-Mitschnitt, dokumentiert…
