D/B Recommended: Young Generation Jazz @ Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin | 08.09-12.09.2010

From 8 September 2010, Berlin will host a unique jazz festival. Over a period of five days, “Young Generation Jazz” will present virtuoso artists from the national and international young European jazz scene. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]In cooperation with numerous European arts councils – “Young Generation Jazz” provides a platform for international [...]

D/B Artist Feature: Hubert Daviz & Free download | A Romanian Jazz Mix

Hubert Daviz was born in 1981 near Timisoara, Romania (not far from the place where the author was born). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] At the age of 5 he moved to Germany where he caught the hip-hop bug as a teenager. Today he lives in Cologne where he started making beats in [...]

JAZZLAND NIGHTS Event

Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born February 1, 1964 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as “future jazz” or nu jazz. He has played with Jan Garbarek.

D/B Retrspective: Leon Thomas

Amos Leon Thomas Jr (1937 – May 8, 1999) was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois. He changed his name to Leone in 1974 because of an interest he had in numerology at the time. He did not legally change his name and he reverted back to Leon shortly thereafter. [...]

Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics

01 April 2009 @ Lido, Berlin  |  Doors 21:00, Stage-time 22:00 / VVK: 20 € Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics (from the drummer sampled by Madlib & Yesterdays New Quintet & the band that backed DJ Shadow)  |  DJ support — Jazzanova Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics

You Stepped Out Of A Dream – McCoy Tyner trio

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born 11 December 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career. You Stepped Out Of A Dream — McCoy Tyner trio / McCoy Tyner(p), Ron carter(b), Joe Chambers(ds) 1987 http://www.mccoytyner.com

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

The bassist of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago, Malachi Favors died exactly five years ago. The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz ensemble that grew out of Chicago’s AACM in the late 1960s. The group continues to tour and record through 2006, despite the deaths of two of the founding members. Art [...]

Brad Mehldau Trio Live in Berlin

October 22nd, 2008 / Kammermusiksaal Berlin www.bradmehldau.com

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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010 3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island

 

From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.

 

Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.