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Violet
Eeppi Ursin
Moomin Voices, Classic Edition
Tove Jansson
Duende
The Complete Organ Works I
César Franck, Torvald Torén
The Grupo Nuevo Latin Jazz Group Spans Transatlantic Tango Commonalities
When tango started spreading from the European rioplatense settlers in Argentina and Uruguay back...Johanna Grüssner Running An Important Mission With Singing
Not all music has a common purpose. It can certainly be beautiful and enjoyable, but it often only...Sound Advice: The digital hype of compressed MP3 and uncompressed CD
Young men of the digital age have found a niche out of bragging with analog LPs. If ever caving in...NHL Ice Hockey Players Hum Solos for Improved Performance
For decades, music of the sports has been based on distorted rock guitar and triumphant national...
Toivo Kärki | composer
is regarded as one of the most prolific Non-Argentinian tango composers of the 20th century. Kärki was from Finland, and worked as a songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist,...
Joe Lovano | saxophone
is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a...
Duke Ellington | composer
is regarded as one of the greatest jazz composers and bandleaders of all time. One of the originators of big-band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century,...
Dark Wood Explorations
Judith Insell, Joe Fonda
Early Recordings
Alvaro Is Rojas
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Johanna Grüssner, Peter Eldridge, Darmon Meader
Bridge
Akiko Pavolka, Peter Hess, Pete Rende, Matt Pavolka
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Keyboardist Joe Zawinul's Syndicate grooves on live discovery
Austrian-American keyboardist Joe Zawinul gave the electric keyboards artistic value. He made them...Swedish Traditional Songs Portray the Quintessential Music About Summer and Love
If the legendary Swedish folk music troubadours Evert Taube and Olle Adolphson had heard vocalist...Jazz singer Carmen McRae's words compiled by bassist Ray Brown
"What Do The Words Say?" asks jazz vocal legend Carmen McRae on the album with the same title (Blue...Jazz musician Miguel Zenon's achievements push regular boundaries
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, jazz musician Miguel Zenón has achieved many things in his...
Amina Claudine Myers | singer and pianist
is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger. She has proven herself adept in the creative musical arts. She is well known for her works...
Felipe Salles | saxophonist
is a native of São Paulo, Brazil, who currently lives and performs in New York City. His group, The Felipe Salles Quintet is the result of this cultural fusion, a blend of...
Edvard Grieg | composer
was a Norwegian composer and pianist. His great-grandfather immigrated from Scotland to Norway around 1770, and settled as a businessman in Bergen. Edvard was brought up in a...
Reflections in Real Time
Mika Pohjola
The Secret of the Castle
Mika Pohjola, Chris Cheek, Matt Penman, Roberto Dani
Augmented Variations
Amina Claudine Myers
Latest News
Jazz Drummer Terry Clarke nominated for Canadian JUNO Award
The committee for the JUNO Awards in Toronto, Canada, announced today that drummer Terry Clarke's...Edwin Fischer cuts the modern temperament in Johann Sebastian Bach
Before there was the sensation of pianist Glenn Gould, with all his accessories, from blazing...New York Jazz Capitalizes Compositions by Remarkable Trio
Studio and live recordings are often compared and noted as being contrasting in energy and...
Chris Cheek | saxophone
began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Chris played in a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands in the St. Louis area while attending Webster University. In 1988, on...
Jim Hall | guitar
is an American Jazz guitarist. Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the...
Mark Ferber | jazz drummer
grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his musical studies on the piano at the age of five. He was later introduced to drumming and percussion. Mark studied classical...
Eddie Jefferson | vocalist
was a celebrated jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited with having invented vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Perhaps...
Organ Works II
Johann Sebastian Bach, Torvald Torén
Cutt'n Korners
Rashied Ali, Greg Tardy, Antoine Drye, Omer Avital
Blue Draught
The Daughters of the Wolf
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Terry Clarke, Jim Hall, Joe Lovano, Greg Osby
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Op-Ed: The Arts Industry Revolution Puts Money On the Backseat
As today's omnidirectional communications have sprung unlimited location insensitive fanship toward...Conductor Bruno Walter in Prewar Mozart Recording
German-born conductor Bruno Walter's long career included many recordings of the classics,...Op-Ed: Starbucks Entertains Office Orphans with Coffee and Music
NEW YORK - As office retail prices have soared in major cities around the country, and private...Terry Clarke wins Canadian Grammy Jazz Recording of the Year Award.
Drummer Terry Clarke and his Blue Music Group release "It's About Time" has won the 2010 Jazz...
Steve Wilson | saxophonist
is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist. As a teenager, he played in various rhythm and blues and funk bands. After a year accompanying singer Stephanie Mills, he attended...
Eeppi Ursin | vocalist
has performed in bands ever since her early child-hood. She studied oboe and played piano to accompany her own singing. Jazz was, however, closer to her heart. Eeppi has...
Rashied Ali | drummer
was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life. Rashied Ali was born into a musical...
Mika Pohjola | pianist
is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in New York City. He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation. Pohjola was born in...
Drama
Roberto Dani
Dark Wood Explorations
Judith Insell, Joe Fonda
Landmark
Mika Pohjola, Miguel Zenón, Ben Monder
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Milt Jackson, Ray Brown and Stanley Turrentine exhibit Real Jazz
Times change. The great mid and late 20th century jazz generation is now represented on numerous LP...Keyboardist Joe Zawinul's Syndicate grooves on live discovery
Austrian-American keyboardist Joe Zawinul gave the electric keyboards artistic value. He made them...is a Swedish vocalist with strong ties to the United States, where she launched her career. In addition to her studio recordings and live performances, she's an accredited...
Þorleifur Edmundsson | composer
was a Swedish salesman and musician who was based in Livonia most of his life. Edmundsson was born on the island of Gotland to Norwegian Vikings, who most likely had to flee...
Eddie Jefferson | vocalist
was a celebrated jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited with having invented vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Perhaps... studied for six years at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music and a Post Graduate Diploma in Concert Organ...
Caminos
Yulia Musayelyan, Fernando Huergo, Vardan Ovsepian
Special Piano Jazz
Mika Pohjola, Massimo Biolcati, Mark Ferber
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Mika Pohjola, Miguel Zenón, Ben Monder
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Mika Pohjola
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Jazz musician Miguel Zenon's achievements push regular boundaries
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, jazz musician Miguel Zenón has achieved many things in his...The Debut Album Studio Recording Experience, Part III: Mixing and Mastering
Post-production, i.e. editing, mixing and mastering, is just as important as playing the music....Op-Ed: The Acoustic Piano and Home Entertainment in the Digital Age
Gadgets, games, laptops, speaker systems, multi use phones and flat screen televisions are once...Jazz Education
Line Writing by Herb Pomeroy
Herb Pomeroy is regarded as one of the most influential jazz educators of the 20th century. He is best known for having taught Line Writing, The Music of Duke Ellington and The Jazz Composer's Seminar at Berklee College of Music. Many people asked him to write a book... learn more
Marcus Torén | organist
studied for six years at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music and a Post Graduate Diploma in Concert Organ Performance in 1996.... learn moreRigmor Gustafsson | jazz vocalist
is a Swedish vocalist with strong ties to the United States, where she launched her career. In addition to her studio recordings and live performances, she's an accredited educator who taught at both... learn more
Jill Walsh | singer
grew up in Portland, Oregon, studied at Berklee College of Music, started her career in New York City, and currently lives in Nashville, TN. Jill is a modern songwriter with a gift for beautiful... learn more
Yulia Musayelyan | flutist
was born in Moscow, Russia, where she began her music studies at the age of 4 with Valery Brainin and later at the Gnessin School of Music for gifted children. She has extensive experience in the... learn more
Marcus Torén
studied for six years at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music and a Post Graduate Diploma in Concert Organ Performance in 1996. Torén was admitted to the organ class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he in 1999 was awarded Prix d'Orgue. He has studied piano with Greta Erikson, and organ with Rune Engsö, Erik Boström, Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry (organ)....
Herb Pomeroy
was one of the most influential jazz educators during the second part of the 20th century. He taught at Berklee College of Music for 110 semesters. Herb Pomeroy began playing trumpet at an early age, and in his early teens started gigging in the greater Boston area, claiming inspiration from the music of Louis Armstrong. After high school, he studied music at the Schillinger House in Boston, which is now the Berklee College of Music, and began to develop his interest in bebop, and...
Nando Michelin
was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He came to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. Michelin has an extensive discography, including the titles Facing south, Art, Chants, Live at the AJC and When Einstein dreams, Duende, Minas Gerais and Reencontro. The duo Ragazzi-Michelin performed at the Wang Center and Kimmel ctr for the Arts among other places. As a producer, he also recorded the awarded Amores torcidos and The other side with Argentinian singer Katie Viqueira, Ave rara with Teresa...
Eeppi Ursin
has performed in bands ever since her early child-hood. A career in music was soon the only satisfying choice. She studied oboe and played the piano to accompany her own singing. Jazz was, however, closer to her heart. After high school graduation, Eeppi studied in Orivesi and Joensuu, and returned to Helsinki to pursue her professional studies. Eeppi has received several honors and recognitions, among them the first prize in in the prestigious Lady Summertime Jazz contest. Eeppi's ambitious...