Zzebra - Hungry Horse (Live In Bremen 1975) xtraordinary live recording of a supergroup combining jazz, rock and African rhythms, recorded by Radio Bremen on Oct. 20, 1975 in Bremen (Germany) -... more

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

Saxman / keyboard player Clive Stevens from Bristol, England, was among the earliest to explore the nexus of jazzrock and electric jazz in his two 1974 albums. And both releases, "Atmospheres" and... more

With a title inspired by trumpeter Randy Brecker's Manhattan neighborhood, "34th N Lex" (ESC) captures the spirit and energy of the city that never sleeps. An all-star ensemble provides a vibrant... more

'Get Down!' is an album by Soulive that was originally recorded between March and June 1999. The album is widely regarded as Soulive's first album. With this release, Soulive made it's debut with the... more

Surging with pulse-quickening grooves, drenched in Third World exotica, charged with improvisational abandon and teeming with typical machismo, Faces & Places is quintessential Joe Zawinul. This... more

The independently produced "Turn It Out" went on to sell an astonishing 65,000 copies, enabling Soulive to gain recognition in the jazz/funk scene. This is Soulive´s 1st full length CD recorded over... more

The digitalisation of Volker Kriegel's private audio tape archive (1943 - 2003) conserves the musical legacy of one of the great musicians and pioneers of jazz rock in Germany. Familiar as well as... 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

The ingredients of a Kriegel style jazz rock are as simple as they are complex: an often pumping rock bass, whose stoic groove Eberhard Weber leaves behind in wide arcs on his corpus-less electro... more

A true music lover and lover of life. That's how you can describe the Italian-born founder of Soul Basement, Fabio Puglisi. Jazz, Seventies Soul, Lounge, a little Eighties Boogie/Funk and Spoken Word... more

This Canadian singing star and the Metropole Orchestra started collaborating in 2000, then made this much-talked-about appearance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2002. Pop, jazz and symphonic... more

Not only were Weather Report at their peak of pop success when they played this 1978 set, but they had at the time, arguably, the greatest fusion band ever: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius... more

Before Trilok's music gradually changed to Worldmusic ever since 1996, he was deep-rooted in Jazz in 1993. The conjunction of Indian Rythms with the elements of modern Jazz led to extraordinary aural... more

Jack Bruce is an icon of the Rock world. In 2006 at the 37th German Jazz Festival Frankfurt, he joined forces with the hr-Bigband to perform a great concert, presenting classic "Cream" songs and... more

German jazz guitarist Volker Kriegel's first studio album has unavailable since 1971. This reissues includes more than 50 minutes of bonus material from 1968, the same year of the original release.

A Meeting with FriendsThe 'Motor' of this concert was built from the core of the 'Mild Maniac Orchestra' with Volker Kriegel on guitar and Thomas Bettermann on keyboards. Completed was the line-up... more