Tag: Jazz
“Keys” universe: Alicia Keys: Jazz, blues and soul in a double pack
“Keys” universe Alicia Keys: Jazz, Blues and Soul in a double pack Alicia Keys walks in different worlds. Photo: Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP / dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH…
First Flight To Tokyo: Cool Jazz: Art Blakey live with a star band
First Flight To Tokyo Cool jazz: Art Blakey live with a star band The trip to Tokyo was a career highlight for Art Blakey and his band. Photo: Hozumi Nakadaira…
Jazz column: Straight up – culture
At the beginning of the eighties, a colleague at the city newspaper who preferred to listen to rock music made fun of my precocious enthusiasm for jazz by asking why…
Trumpeter Till Brönner: New album, great anger – Munich
Interview by Oliver Hochkeppel At this time of year Germany’s most prominent jazz musician, trumpeter Till Brönner, would normally be out and about in Munich and other Bavarian cities. Perhaps…
Jazz drummer Bill Stewart in the Unterfahrt München – Munich
Style epochs have long since ceased to exist in jazz, but there are certainly fashions. Even for individual instruments, and the faster they change, the more technical things are done.…
Munich jazz duo receives worldwide attention for spontaneous album – Munich
Piano, bass and drums. The audience is used to it. Because that’s how the classic jazz trio is usually defined. But what happens if you just leave out one of…
Jazz Column: Questionable Dances of Death – Culture
The last jazz column indicated that in Germany up to three years in prison for disturbing the peace of the dead. The occasion was the new single “Legacy” by smooth…
Esperanza Spalding: “Songwrights Apothecary Lab” – Culture
You can’t tell by looking at some people that hurricanes are raging inside them. The bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, for example. With her super star smile, she can make…
Ismaning – Jazz in the Seidl-Mühle – District of Munich
Bastian Stein is considered one of the most successful young German jazz trumpeters. The musician, who lives in Cologne, and his bandmates Phil Donkin (bass) and James Maddren (drums) concentrate…
Saxophonist Kenny G in a duet with Stan Getz: Disturbance of the peace of the dead – culture
The American smooth jazz saxophonist Kenneth Bruce Gorelick has become one of the most commercially successful musicians to date under the stage name Kenny G within forty years. He was…