On Our Time, saxophonist Trygve Seim and accordionist Frode Haltli renew their long-standing musical partnership - a duo that can look back on a quarter of a century of working together in 2025. The album presents a program of thought-provoking improvisations and compositions, including the Ukrainian lullaby "Oy ...
Anja Lechner is a regular: she has played here with the pianist Francois Couturier, the young piano virtuoso Raúl da Costa and the bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi, with whom she has recorded some of her more than 30 albums. Composers such as Arvo Pärt have given her delicate works on ...
She is an icon of American showbiz. She has achieved what every singer dreams of no less than five times in her career: winning a Grammy. What's more, Dianne Reeves is the only one of the honorees who has managed to win the award in three ...
For pianist Michael Wollny, the trio with bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Eric Schaefer is the constant in his otherwise constantly changing cosmos of collaborations. The three musicians are united by an almost inexhaustible musical vocabulary, an outstanding sensitivity in their interplay and the ability to create something out of the ...
Last november, Cat Power took to the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall to perform a song-for-song recreation of one of the most legendary and transformative live concerts of all time. Held at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in May 1966, the concert was canceled due to a mislabeled ...
Emerging Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist corto.alto, the pseudonym of Glasgow-based Liam Shortall, is described as a traditional jazz musician who has grown up in the digital age. With a fresh perspective, he combines intuitive improvisation, electronic production, broken beats and bass-heavy dub. His debut album ...