Michael Sagmeister
In the early 80's he toured as the opening act of the "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble", which immideately led to fame. He then toured Southeast Asia, Northern and Western Africa. Playing many international Festivals, he now is well known in the international jazz scene.
He performed and recorded with Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell, Jack DeJohnette, Lyle Mays, Dave Samuels, Albert Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Dauner, Charlie Mariano, Randy Brecker, Volker Kriegel, Attila Zoller, Miroslav Vitous, Emily Remler, Gerry Brown and Pat Martino.
Next to teaching numerous Jazz-Workshops he is working as a Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. In 1999 his textbook "Sagmeisters Jazzgitarre" was released and is a bestseller since.
Hendrik Meurkens
Hendrik Meurkens, a virtuoso on both the chromatic harmonica and the vibraphone, is the most important jazz harmonica player since Toots Thielemans. German-born but now based in New York, Meurkens' recordings and performances garner worldwide acclaim because the transcendent beauty of his music has universal appeal.
Hendrik Meurkens' profound involvement in both jazz and Brazilian music resulted in a very personal and instantly recognizable version of Samba Jazz. This music, a cross-cultural amalgam guaranteed to touch the heart, features his harmonica and vibes along with piano, bass and drums, playing his stirring originals and arrangements.
Kerberbrother Alpenfusion
Alpine Fusion is created from a transglobal mix of authentic alpine sounds and ethno underground. Infectious rythms are combined with alphorn and Scherrzither, comtemporary jazz groove with yodel, zither and dulcimer. The harmonic energy and the delight in playing, which are a characterisic feature of Bavarian folk music, are adopted in the alpine jazz. Both attain a new meaning because of the great variety of instruments and musical styles.
The alpine folk music is, due to its strictly conservative structure, not suitable for a homogeneous progression. The Keberbrothers Alpine Fusion picks up sensations of traditional folk music combining them with the spirit of the times by employing a concept of confrontation of old and new music.
Al di Meola
(in cooperation with Nova Concerts)
Al Di Meola holds the most prestigious guitar awards (of any guitarist in the world) from the highest rated guitar poll in the world, Guitar Player Magazine. Al Di Meola's highly celebrated career has spanned a wide range of emotions into a unique style embodying the artists world inspired influences. From the velocity and heat of his early solo efforts to the challenge and triumph of the "Di Meola/McLaughlin/De Lucia (Guitar Trio)", from the Brazilian explorations of Cielo e Terra and Soaring Through A Dream to the global romanticism and Tango inflection of Al's acoustic group "World Sinfonia" (self titled debut) and the 2nd "World Sinfonia" recording Heart of the Immigrants.
Pasadena Roof Orchestra
(in ccoperation mit Forster Veranstaltg.)
For fourty years the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, based in the UK, has delighted audiences all over the world with its mix of swing and hot dance music. Swing is much more than a musical genre, it personifies a lust for life, with its infectious beat. Its roots lie in the pre war dance bands, and the roaring twenties which inspired the later big swing bands. In contrast to many other musical genres swing has never really gone out of fashion over the decades, particularly in recent years. The Pasadena Roof Orchestra has played an important role in this resurgence of popularity.
The Ethel Caffie Austin-Singers
For decades in the South of the USA Ethel Caffie-Austin has been called the"First Lady of Gospel Music".She was born in Alabama as the granddaughter of a slave, so she is deeply rooted in the old songs that she has heard and sung since her childhood.ethel caffie austin singersShe started to play the piano when she was only six years old and from the age of ten on she directed the choir at her father's church. When she was fourteen she organized West Virginia's first mass choir, in which she combined singers from ten different congregations.At college she organised gospel groups at four different state universities and went on tour with them across the United States. Today she still gives Caffie-Austin workshops all over America.
Sigi Schwab
startet his musical career by studying Guitar and Double Bass at Mannheim University. He performed in a great variety of bands (New Orleans-, Dixieland- and Swingformations, Folk Music, Rock'n Roll, Blues, Modern Jazz), but also played classical Guitar with Chambermusic-ensembles.
He recorded more than 15.000 tunes with well-known Orchestras and Artists.
Sigi Schwab composed music for countless TV-Sequels, Films, Theater, Ballett and Performances and Chamber-Music. He is the only european Guitarist beeing awarded the "Ovation Award". Besides the Classical-Ensemble, the Diabelli Trio and the Percussion Academia - until Guillermo Marchena died - Sigi Schwab now performs with the Percussion Project.
Max Neissendorfer
"My goal is to combine the flair of the Sinatra Era, the vocal virtuosity of a Bobby McFerrin, with the pop staging of an Elton John performance, go that a diverce audience, who prefer "unplugged" music of the highest quality, get that "Aha!" effect one can only experience "LIVE" - Just like the giants named above gave us and continue giving.
According to music journalists "Europe's finest pianist in his genre" began his career with classical piano instruction, followed by composition studies at the Academy of Music in Munich as well as courses at the Munich Jazz School under Joe Haider.
Max Neissendorfer's concert tour activity has brought him around the world. In addition to extencive european tours, his "Swiss Jazz Quintet" performed in New York and Detroit (USA). Max has played the key jazz festivals from Montreux to Warsaw.
[Only in German]
Helmut Nieberle's Cordes Sauvages
Was einmal mit der Liebe zur Musik und der Faszination durch den legendären Sound von Django Reinhardts Hot Club de France begann, wurde mit den Jahren zwar "sophisticated", hat aber nichts von der wilden Begeisterung für die musikalischen Potenziale der Vorfahren verloren. Nur endlos nachspielen, was andere ohnehin unnachahmlich vorgemacht haben, ist da einfach nicht drin. Wenn schon Ahnenkult, dann einer, der aus der Inspiration der Vorbilder Eigenes zu zaubern versteht.
Members of the "Berliner Philharmoniker" are
Bolero Berlin
It began as an experiment and ended in triumph when the band played their first concerts in front of 2000 enthusiastic listeners in april 2008.
Bolero Berlin, a formation of soloists of "The Berliner Philharmoniker" plus some internationally outstanding jazz musicians, have devoted themselves to a profound passion, the music of South America. The six artists give an interpretation of Mexican and Cuban Bolero, danzon and tango in a very special instrumentation. They play the music of their heart in a powerful and expressive way without setting aside typical elements from jazz and improvisation. the result is a dazzling display of creativity and rhythm, powerfully enthusiastic and amazingly tender at the same time. The way they perform their tangos and bossa novas they prove that music is able to do magic.
Walter Lang
He studied piano and composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston finished his studies at the Amsterdam School of Arts.
In 1988 Walter had the fortune of becoming a founding member of the Rick Hollander Quartet, a group which has enjoyed countless tours of Europe, Japan and America. The group's 5 CD's all feature Walter's trademark piano playing. The Quartet won the 1st prize at the "Europ' Jazz Contest" in Hoeilaart, Belgium in 1990.
Along with drummer Gerwin Eisenhauer and bassist Sven Faller he founded TRIO ELF in 2005. Their first CD "ELF" for ENJA RECORDS was a big success and the second CD will come out in the autumn of 2008.
Walter Lang has also played with James Moody, Chico Freeman, Don Menza, Roy Hargrove, Jenny Evans, Dusko Goykovich, Lisa Wahlandt and many others.
The new Walter Lang Trio
Yuujou; Walter Lang and Takuya Taniguchi
ZUG: HAMMERLING TRIFFT MICHAELA DIETL
HAMMERLING ist die pure Freude an UnverBRAUCHTem, UnverSUCHTem und UnerHÖRTem. Ihnen gelingt, was selten ist: Sie begeistern mit eigenständigem Programm, bleiben original u n d originell, weil sie ganz und gar HAMMERLING sind.
Die beiden musizieren etikettenfrei und schubladenfern, mit ungeheurer Spielfreude, sagenhafter Präzision und Perfektion. Fritz Moßhammer bringt sein Alphorn kraftvoll in ungeahnte Dynamik und entlockt ihm eine Zartheit, die man dem raumfüllenden Instrument nicht zutrauen möchte.
Erwin Rehling legt dazu am Schlagzeug die überzeugende rhythmische Basis. Sein virtuoses Gefühl für pulsierenden, packenden Beat entfaltet er ebenso am selbstgebauten Steinspiel, an Marimbaphon und Schellenbaum.
Kongeniale Partnerin im aktuellen Projekt „ZUG“ ist Michaela Dietl, Akkordeon und Stimme. Ihr gefühlsbetontes Spiel, fragil und kraftvoll zugleich, voller individueller Nuancen im Ausdruck, fügt der Musik von HAMMERLING eine eigenständige Stimme hinzu.
Aus DIA-log wird TRIO-log.
Johannes Ochsenbauer
„Some Of My Best Friends Are …“ nannte Ray Brown eine Reihe von CDs, die in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens erschienen „… Bassists“ würde Johannes Ochsenbauer hier schlicht ergänzen. Sein neues Projekt spricht für das Selbstbewusstsein des jungen Tieftonmeisters: Ausschließlich Kompositionen von Bassisten stehen auf dem Programm, großflächig angelegt in der stilistischen Bandbreite. Gemeinsam mit dem sensibel agierenden Michael Keul am Schlagzeug, dem exzellenten Pianisten Tizian Jost und Saxophon-Star Harry Sokal (Depart, Vienna Art Orchestra) frönt Johannes Ochsenbauer in fein swingender Spielkultur dem von Bill Evans inspirierten Ideal jener gleichberechtigten Kommunikation, in der alle Individuen zu einem Ganzen verschmelzen. Das dies mehr als die Summe seiner Teile ist, verdankt es ganz wesentlich der selbstbewussten Kreativität und sanften Energie der tiefen Töne.
Dr. Tobias Böcker
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Blues etc.: Get the cat – Al Jones Blues Band – Tommy Schneller – Bluesnight Band – Jörg Hegemann – Frank Muschalle – Jan Fischer Blues Band – Jessy Martens –Blues Company – Yellow Moon – The Stimulators – Cajun Roosters…
Swing: Cordes Sauvages – Häns’che Weiss – Engelbert Wrobel – Louis Prima Revival Band – Scat Max Neissendorfer – Sinatra Tribute Band
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