Vinyl LP pressing. With the label MPS, post-war musical history was written in Germany: noble music productions with many international greats come from the Black Forest and are timelessly legendary.... more

Tony Williams certainly counts among those unique drummers in jazz today, whose work has had a lasting influence on styles and still does. At the tender age of 16, saxophonist Jackie McLean brought... more

"Music should be communicative without relying on clichés. It should be sensitive, without esoteric eccentricity. Intelligent without index finger and ivory tower. Understandable, but not banal. As... more

John Lewis on piano, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Percy Heath on double bass and Connie Kay on percussion. "Integration " was the key word used by Lewis all his life to describe MJQ: finding a balance... more

Two short snippets recorded live by and with Don Cherry bookend the album"Spellbound": an improvisation in a duo with Cherry on trumpet and Trilok, who can be heard on the drum set especially... more

In 1953 Gillespie is 36 years old and a world star in Jazz. Born in 1917, he is known in the scene as "Dizzy" because, alongside the inventors of bebop Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, he likes to play... more

In the whole treasure trove of recordings from six decades of Jazz at NDR, this one stands out in particular, because it is one of the first in the series of concerts recorded outside of the... more

Weather Report was one of the super-bands in the 70s and beginning of the 80s. The 40th anniversary of the founding of the band, which was started by the legendary keyboarder Joe Zawinul and the... more