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New album and new tour from Joe Locke
Just released under the Italian label Jazz Eyes, "Sticks & Strings" is Joe Locke's newest album featuring Jay Anderson on bass, Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and Joe LaBarbera on drums. The album features seven original compositions along with some of Locke's favourite standards. Joe Locke and the musicians playing on the album will go on the "Sticks & Strings" tour starting with UK in November. Also on the tour map: Germany, Spain and mainly Italy, the only opportunity to hear him live in some cosy small clubs.

New release from Italian jazz label JazzEyes:
Eddie Gomez Trio - Palermo


YUER Fest in Paris
Ethno-Jazz and Rock Music festival from regions of former Yugoslavia



New release from
Nicolosi Productions

Billy Cobham's
"Drum 'n' Voice Vol.2."


From the Turkish Label "Aura Records":
New Release: Spin - Ilk

Vladiswar Nadishana
released his DVD
Organic & Inorganic

Anthony Ocana will be presenting concerts and master classes in the months of February and March in Portugal and Dominican Republic

Neil Alexander & Nail new CD "Tugging At The Infinite" is out!
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Grosskopf's latest album "File Under: G" has been selected as one of Soul-Patrol.com's Best of 2006

Kevin Hays Trio's "For Heaven's Sake" was awarded 4 stars by the French magazine JazzMan, won the "Coup de coeur" from l'Academie Charles Cros", and also the New Yorker magazine voted the album as one of the best of 2006!

Gianni Bardaro has been announced as winner of a Touchplaymusic Website! The Sinestetic Jazz Project has now an official website: www.sinesteticjazz.com

Joe Locke
From June 29 to July 01, Joe Locke will be headlining this year's JazzBaltica Festival in Salzau, Northern Germany, as "Artist in Residence", appearing in no less than four prestigious concerts.


New CDs expected in 2007 from:

Çavana
Anthony Ocana
Ric DelNero's Chromatica
Trio Tarana
Daniela Nardi
Vladiswar Nadishana




 


 

New Featured Artists!

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New additions to the playlists:
Joesf Glaude- Guitarist
25th Street Band
Guitarist/Music Educator- Pete Sklaroff (UK)

Composer and saxophone player - Eddie Neumann (Romania/UK)

Jazz Fusion Bassist - Rozzano Zamorano (USA)

Interview with Leonardo Pavkovic
Interview with Roberto Magris

New Featured Label: (type:g)records (Germany)
New Featured Label: (USA)
New Releases

Kali Z. Fasteau/Kidd Jordan/Newman Taylor Baker
Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland
Flying Note Records (2007)
The Wrong Object
Stories From The Shed
Moonjune Records (2008)

Marco Lo Russo
Accordionist and composer
(Italy)
If you want to hear a fine accordionist "Mediterranean Accordion... Live" is a great choice
. Marco Lo Russo mixes jazz, chamber music, oriental themes and nostalgic tango in a fascinating musical trip. Each time you listen this beautiful recording, you will discover something new and surprising. Although rooted in the Mediterranean space, his music transcends cultural boundaries and conventions to reach a high level of refinement yet full of energy and beat.
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Cyril Achard
Guitar, Composer, Educator
(France)
A versatile electric and acoustic guitarsist with an excellent guitar technique and a special feeling for melodic improvisations and rhytm. On "Essensuel" he explores a common ground between jazz, classical, pop, latin music. The result is a sensitive and exquisite acoustic album.
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Joe Locke Quartet
"Sticks & Strings

JazzEyes 2007

Although Joe Locke, this "aristocrat of the vibes" is known mostly as a jazzman, he is also a genuine musician opened to various horizons. "Sticks and Strings", his new CD released by the Italian label MusicEyes is no exception. His chamber-impressionistic style touched by a tasteful "Lockian" romanticism infuses each piece of this beautiful album blending energy and tempos into a crystal clarity sound. The songs are intelligently balanced: from kaleidoscopic aerial grooves on "Time like the Present" to intriguing dynamics on "The Rosario Material" complemented by the melodic timeless "Sword Of Whispers" and "A Word Before You Go" or "Terzani" with a jazzrock watermark and the changing textures and rhythms on "Sixth Sense" and "Appointment in Orvieto". No matter the song , the quartet plays with the same emotional resonance. A notable revelation is Jonathan Kreisberg on guitars exchanging shades and colors with Joe Locke throughout the album, Joe La Barbera on drums, playing spectral, diaphanous cymbals and Jay Anderson on bass, bringing in nuances and tension. Warmly recommended to refined listeners.




Magdalena Reising
(UK)
Singer

Magdalena Reising's debut album gives the listener a good view of her talent as an inspired songwriter and sensitive performer. She sings with a mature, clear voice, with no artificial "prettyness", or using melodramatic cabaret-styled cliches. The album features a well balanced diversity and alternance of tempos and rhytms, from meditative to joyful, beautifully captured in a jazz-blues atmosphere by excellent musicians featuring Christopher Page, a master pianist. "Blue Cafe" is a promising debut for this gifted artist and also an album enjoyable from beginning to end.
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Fellé Vega
(Dominican Republic/USA)
Percussionist, composer

Recorded live, Fellé Vega's CD "Retreta Para El Alma" captures the freshness and spontaneity of his warm, colorful music where Dominican folk, and improvisation are mixed with distinctive refinement. This CD is far from exotic cliches or "Latin" hits: Fellé Vega and his band preserved the original authenticity and spirit of sources without losing creativity along the way. The fusion of voices, violin, accordion, tuba, guitar and percussion work as one, the balance of sonorities is masterfully crafted. Fellé Vega's percussion poetry on this compelling album.
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Tiziano Zanotti
Bass player, composer, educator
(Italy)

Recently released "Influences" is the work of a very special duo. Tiziano Zanotti, bass and Alessio Alberghini soprano sax, took the challenge to revisit a collection of standards using the maximum of their talent to get the most out of their instruments. The difficulty was not just to balance the bass and sax tonalities but to keep alive the spirit and color of tunes such as Ornithology or Yardbird Suite. The experiment proved to be successful both ways, the listener will be charmed by Tiziano Zanotti's spacious, warm double bass playing and Alessio Alberghini's beautiful designed sax sound shifting from mellow tones to surprising playful improvisations. In the end this clever synthesis of technique and emotion will certainly makes you realize you're not just listening to another rendition of standards but to a quite genuine sonic signature.
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Mayra Casales
Composer, singer, percussionist
(Cuba/USA)

A beautiful debut CD with a distinctively modern Cuban jazz feel by percussionist Mayra Casales. The eleven songs speak for themselves about her incredible talent and versatility. Not that she plays with master technique a colorful selection of percussions:congas, djembe, quinto, timbales, guiro but also sings with a rich voice on two of the tracks. Woman On Fire ("Mujer Ardiente") is the remarkable result of a wonderful mix of talents. Mayra Casales is joined by Jon Lucien(excellent on his composition "Xiomara"), Robert Rodriguez(piano, keyboards), Regina Carter(violin) and Carmen Lundy(voice, Rhodes) to name just a few.
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YUER Fest

Ethno-Jazz and Rock Music festival featuring bands from regions of former Yugoslavia.
Featured bands: AB RE and Arhai.
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Mamdouh Bahri
Composer, guitarist
(Tunisia/France)

Guitarist Mamdouh Bahri is a traveller through the universe of jazz, Mediterranean, Latin and traditional Nord-African music he transposes in beautiful exquisite, melodic lines. "Tabarka" captures his musical influences filtered through a personal melodic sensibility infused with lyrical oriental textures.
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João Ferraz
Composer, guitarist
(Brazil)

Guitarist João Ferraz's debut album features a set of 8 original pieces performed in a joyous, sunny key. Is an exuberant and elegant fusion of Brazilian rhythms with modern jazz sounds, beautifully arranged and performed by a team of excellent musicians with great taste. There'a lot of variety in this multi colored sound palette. João Ferraz's harmonies are reminscent of Toninho Horta's sonorities while Adriana Duarte's warm voice that gives so much charm to the album. Imaginative and vivacious "Sapo" is recommended for those who want to hear what is new and creative in the actual Brazilian music.
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Neil Alexander
(USA)
Composer, keyboards


Released in 2007 "Tugging at the infinite" released, is another excellent record from keyboardist and composer Neil Alexander. The eight compositions cover a multitude of influences and sonorities blended and balanced with that refined good taste characteristic to Neil Alexander. "There is no electric guitar on this record", is written on the CD cover but after listening to "Starlight Casts No Shadow" you realize the "secret" meaning of this "warning". In fact, no need for guitar, Neil Alexander is clearly the master of his keyboard and he knows how to get the maximum of beauty out of it. For some rock loving listeners the hit of the album may be the superb composition "Everyman (The Flight Of The Falcon)" while the keyboards and sax dialog on "The One That Got Away" will delight jazz fusion fans. Each piece is different, arranged with artistry and care for a rich, bold and warm sound. An excellent record.
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Aura Records
(Turkey)

An original label featuring among other talented musicians, a selection of jazz fusion artists whose creations contain a wonderful blend of Turkish music themes with jazz influences.
New Release: Spin - Ilk
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Rick Zunigar
Guitar, Composer
(USA)

On "Rick Zunigar Organ Trio" guitarist Rick Zunigar teams up with two other fine musicians: Joe Bagg(Hammond B3 Organ) and Mark Ferber(drums) to produce an outstanding example of elegance and improvisational playfullness. His guitar can be described as sophisticated, shining throughout the album with clarity and precision, gaining even more depth and richness in the trio context where Joe Bagg's B3 organ warm sound offers the perfect contrast. There is no doubt, there is a special empathy between these three master musicians, one that makes the recording sound as one of a kind.
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Emmanuel Binet
Bass (electric and accoustic), Composer, arranger, producer
(France)

Composing or improvising Emmanuel Binet have been blending for many years jazz, world music, folk, rock and other influences with the same exquisite sense of harmony and melody. Throughout his career he was involved in a multitude of musical projects collaborating with many proeminent musicians such as: Pierre Bensusan, Manu Katché, Didier Malherbe, Emmanuel Bex, Chico Freeman, and many others. One of his recent projects is the duo work
with the remarkable guitarist Laurent Hestin. Joining their talent they pursuit an original exploration of a virtual ethnic jazz teritory from East to West, a blend of surprising colorful melodies and rhytms.
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Silard Somorjay
Piano, Keyboards, Composer
(USA/Hungary)


Mixing electronics and acoustic instruments Silard Somorjay's "Eternal Traveler" transports the listener towards a magical universe where the rhythms of the world are woven in an unique organic orchestral performance, very close to a symphonic rendition of the communion between human made sounds and nature's beat. Silard's warm atmospherical keyboards, backed by a team of experimented musicians, paints a genuine spatial musical landscape. This exotic, surreal sonic experience doesn't lack spontaneity, it's always surprising and free playing yet without losing the structural wholeness.
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Delta Saxophone Quartet
Dedicated to You...But You
Weren't listening

Moonjune Records 2007

A superb collection of impressions inspired by some of the legendary Soft Machine songs, performed by DSQ. Although built around Soft Machine's motifs the four musicians create their own estethic and sensibility. This kaleidoscopic ensemble of colors and polyphonies arranged to form one fresh unitary vision is certainly not a Soft Machine cover but rather an exquisite contemporary reflexion of their avant garde poetry. What contributes most to the charm of the music, besides the unsurpased refinement of the execution, is the interpenetration of chamber-jazz-contemporary perspectives in a variety of spontanious (at times, majestic) architectures.
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Simak Dialog
(Indonesia)

From Simak Dialog comes Patahan, released by Moon June Records in 2007 reflects the meeting of jazz, progressive and Indonesian music worlds at a natural, organic level. There is a subtle, sophisticated energy radiating from their music, a succession of soundscapes deeply impregnated with a spiritual fresh power. Among the highpoints the melodic, spontaneous dialogues between piano and Riza Arshad's "methenyan" guitar on"One has to be", or the magical percussion beats mixed with hypnotic vocals on "Spur Of The Moment". Intriguing the breathless tensionated atmosphere(Kemarau), or "Worthseeing" a complex group interaction build around a syncopated theme, and finally "Kain Sigli" a haunting totemic electro-acoustic atmosphere crossed by poignant esoteric vocals. A not conventional album generous in colors and surprises from a band we will surely hear more in the future.
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Gianni Bardaro
(Italy/Denmark)
Saxophone


Italian composer and saxophonist Gianni Bardaro just released "Overflow", an album full of surprises for modern jazz fans. Featuring musicians from Italy, Norway and Denmark the quintet has built a distinct jazz vocabulary based around Gianni Bardaro's compositions. Balancing between lyricism and swing the album has plenty of memorable moments. The sax-piano-trumpet interactions backed by a bold bass-drum section is clearly a winning formula either drawing melodic lines on Song For Dicembre or blending energetic sax-trumpet grooves on Supernova Latina.

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Musiceyes
Italy

From Italian label Music Eyes another memorable realease: "Palermo" featuring bassist Eddie Gomez's trio.
The program includes 8 songs (4 originals and 4 standards, among them two well known tunes from Bill Evans's repertoire: We Will Meet Again and On Green Dolphin Street.). Played by three outstanding artists "Palermo" delights the listener with a poetic music in tune with the spirit of this beautiful Mediterranean city. Gomez's approach is subtle throughout, bearing a warm, deep undertone admirably sustained by Stefan Karlsson, piano and Nasheet Waits, drums.
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Tasa
(Canada)


Tasa is an open door to the beauty of instrumental and vocal Indian music impregnated with various influences from jazz to other sonorities of the world. Their albums will take you in a realm of seductive melodies and improvisations that transcend the geography. The secret of this unique ensemble lies not just in the world class of the musicians but also in the impressive fluid interaction between them.
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Joe De Renzo
Composer, drummer
(USA)

Although Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip and Bob Mintzer are featured on "Dante's View", the music of this album may surprise listeners: Joe De Renzo did not recreate the famous Yellowjackets, his first album released by German label ESC maybest be described as an imaginative contemporary jazz project rooted in the glorious fusion years. Along with originals the album contains a couple of intriguing versions of fusion masters. Giving a new life to Chick Corea's "Lenore" and to Joe Zawinul's "Second Sunday in August", Joe DeRenzo and his fellow musicians re arranged the songs infusing them with warmth and volume yet preserving thir original spirit. The extensive Umbria suite based on a Keith Jarrett performance it is quite an accomplishment for the quintet Mintzer, Ferrante, Hughes, Axt, De Renzo. Going beyond a respectful tribute to the master pianist, they added their personal touch to what it came out as a wonderful melodic work of jazz fusion. Other high points are the trio performances (Ferrante, Haslip, De Renzo), a combination of laid back grooves, smooth funky tones and more introspective improvisations also present on the atmospheric "Last Lovers". It would be simplistic to call "Dante's View", a drummer album; what it reveals is the work of a gifted musician who can synthesize musical sensibilities in a timeless jazz alchemy.
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Happy Dog Project
(Greece)


Happy Dog Project's debut album "Dog Days are Over" marked the beginning of a contemporary and exciting band with an interesting electro jazz- funk-balkan-mediterranean signature. The rhythms are fast and intense, charged with a sort of melancholic, emotional tension, sometimes dark, obsessive, at times colored by clarinet, accordion and guitar but smoothed with the Fender Rhodes/Hammond sound. Changes in rhythms combined with smart electronic effects add to the atmosphere a mysterious, experimental dimension to this intriguing spectrum of textures.
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Chromatica
(USA)

CHROMATICA(Ric DelNero (guitar), Dave "Ike" Eisenhower (drums, percussion) and Dave Sabo (bass guitar) ) is getting ready to release their long awaited debut CD in early spring 2007. The CD is titled Out Of Bounds and consists of 11 amazing tracks. It was produced by Ric DelNero & CHROMATICA and recorded and engineered by Richard Rupert at Green Valley Recording. Two tracks from the album, "Songo" and "Vices" are featured in our streaming programs.
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George Koufogiannakis
Guitar, Composer
(Canada)

Besides the fact that George Koufogiannakis is an innovative spirit, he is also an excellent composer and arranger. The name of the CD "Explorations in Improvised Music" captures the essence of this adventurous yet well structured performance combining the sparkling creativity of a group of fine Canadian and British musicians. The album abounds in layered free-form bold constructions and dialogues between guitar, flugelhorn or trumpet(Richard Skilbeck), intriguing group improvisations colored by turntables and vocals(Tino Koufogiannakis). An album full of energy to the delight of modern jazz lovers.
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Guido Santoni
Piano, Composer
(Italy)

Hard to pinpoint Guido Santoni's musical category since he is continuously and spontaneously defying borders and styles. He only lets his skills and imagination to use freely the universal language of music. The black and white keys become invisible under his hands while releasing a tapestry or torrents of impressionistic fragments, endless ineffable harmonies. If his music is infused with jazz is of less importance, what it counts is the unlimited beauty that Guido Santoni expresses with passion!
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Haftor Medboe Group
(UK)

You may call it contemporary music or symphonic jazz fusion or whatever you like but Haftor Medboe Group is much more than a melting pot. Sometimes abstract or melodic, experimental or minimalist, part modern, part classical, their last release, "In perpetuity" can be listened as a musical story about time and spaces, or it may be the music for your next mental movie populated with colours impressions and... memories of Brian Eno or Bill Frisell. Placed between composition and improvisation, strange experimental folkish harmonies alternate with interludes of crystalline Mediterranean melodies, or more aggressive percussion bursts reinventing the balance of opposites of the musical universe.
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Geoff Lapp
Pianist, Composer
(Canada)
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Geoff Lapp is one of the finest exponents of today's Canadian jazz and "Stained Glass" released in 2006 comes to prove it once again. A beautiful well balanced recording where beyond the impressive technical abilities of the players lies the flowing warm emotion and joy they share with the listener. You'll hear Geoff Lapp's five original colorful compositions along with other five standards wonderful stylized and crafted.
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Billy Preston
Featuring Novecento
You and I


A rare album recorded in Italy in November 1997 by Billy Preston accompanied by Novecento, now in a new 2007 edition. This beautiful tribute to his memory features ten songs mixing jazz, funk, R&B and soul. As always, Preston sings and plays keyboards with his inimitable sense of rhythm and fun. The beauty of this album lies not just in his unforgettable tone of his voice but also in the subtle modern touch of the arrangements.


Novecento (Italy)
CD: Featuring...is

Smooth jazz-pop fusion enthusiasts will be delighted by a new release from the Italian label Novecento Productions. The four talented Nicolosi brothers are joined by an impressive selection of fine jazz musicians: Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, Stanley Jordan, Jeff Berlin, Toots Thielemans, Danny Gottlieb, Eddie Gomez, Billy Preston, Jan Hammer, Airto Moreira and others. Wonderfully performed and recorded, the album mixes the Italian melodicity with contemporary jazz-funk lines tastefully integrated in songs of vocal and instrumental virtuosity. The album abounds in a great diversity of sonorities, sometimes melancholic, seometimes joyous but always wrapped in all those beautiful arrangements characteristic to Novecento. A feast of musical joy and harmony



Fabiana Passoni
(Brazil/USA)
Singer


What is remarkable on "E Minha Vez", Fabiana Passoni's first album is her distinctive rich voice and the wonderful orchestral arrangement and performance of all the songs. From modern to traditional themes, blending with warmth and emotion jazz, sambas, bossa novas, with a hint of pop-rock, this well crafted album has everything to enchant the listener. A special highlight, the title track: a passionate song composed by Fabiana Passoni.
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Kali Z. Fasteau
Composer, educator, singer, (USA)
multinstrumentist,

People of the Ninth/New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005 is the result of the encounter between two master musicians and improvisers well known in the world of free jazz: Kali Z. Fasteau and Kidd Jordan, joined by drummer Michael T. A. Thompson. Prepare to hear a music of volcanic energy, charged with emotion and spontaneity yet organically structured enough to keep the listener curious wanting to hear the next song. In this intimate laboratory populated with a genuine festival of natural sounds and echoes, a borderless music fueled by intensity and passion is being reinvented.
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Craig Pilo
Composer, drummer
(USA)


A highly dynamic jazz fusion atmosphere filled with positive energy. "Just Play" showcases the work of an experimented musician whose bold personality is evident throughout the album. There are many wonderful sequences of vigorous, colorful jamming not to mention the excelelent bass and organ grooves that make the music float around. Among the highlights "Early Cynical Mystery" one of the originals, brings a breeze from the "Return to Forever" years and Coltrane's "Miles Mode" here cleverly arranged by Craig Pilo. An entertaining album of great clarity and power for fusion enthusiasts.
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Mitch Marcus
Composer, tenor saxophone (USA)

"The Special" is a set of seven contemporary jazz grooves played with enthusiasm and sense of humour by five fine musicians from SF Area. This highly creative experimentalist ensemble powered by two frenetic saxophones(Mitch Marcus and Sylvain Carton) and Michael Abraham's guitar creates a rainbow of compelling compositions ranging from weird and quirky to big bandish melodic or free style textures embellished with experimental rock sequences. Remarkable the seamless spatial intersection between saxophones and the rest of the instruments which leave enough room for excellent bass and electric guitar solos. A proof of creative eclecticism that goes beyond juxtaposing stylistic sources.
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Eyal Maoz
Composer, guitarist
(Israel/USA)

On "Edom", hist first album as a leader, guitarist Eyal Maoz is joined by organ player John Medeski, bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz and drummer Ben Perowsky. Exploring a wide range of moods and sounds, from lyrical, jovial to explosive and dark, blending jazz and rock with middle-eastern accents "Edom" bears Eyal Maoz's unique and genuinely clear signature. Remarkable the guitar-organ dialog on "Lost ", the dense guitar sonority on "Strength" or the visionary, vibrant "Hope and Destruction".
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Nicolosi Productions
(Italy)


Nicolosi Productions is active on jazz since 1997, Billy Preston's "You and I" was the first album they produced. Beyond Billy Preston and Billy Cobham, the Italian based Nicolosi Productions' studios near Milano have been producing leading artists such as: Gregg Kofi Brown, Danny Gottlieb, Stanley Jordan and many international guests has taken part of their productions: Sting, Dominic Miller, Buddy Miles, John Patitucci, Airto Moreira, Mike Stern, Michael and Randy Brecker, Jeff Berlin, Toots Thielemans, Frank Gambale, Jan Hammer, Brian Auger, Manu Katche, Des'ree, Gabrielle.

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Aldo Mazza
Percussionist, Composer, Educator, Producer
(Canada/Italy)

French painter Monet said that as an artist you need two lives, one to learn to paint and the other to paint. Compressing the time with intelligence and energy, Aldo Mazza is a brilliant composer and performer as well. Music can be a job, a passion or become synonymous with life. This latter case applies to Aldo whose life is dedicated to more than playing. On the stage, or behind it, or teaching and networking with musicians worldwide, he is always planning, thinking to new projects, discovering new talents and paths in music with the same always young fresh curiosity. His projects, local or international became landmarks. The famous international drumming workshops organized by him in Cuba and USA under the brand name of KOSA are already known by thousands of musicians all over the world.
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Çavana
(Canada/Venezuela)

Formed by four experimented musicians with solid connections to classical, folk and world music, Çavana is an unique musical concept. On their CD "Perspectivas y Relieves" - a gallery of colorful miniatures - they blend with classical finesse, Venezuelean themes, chamber music and jazz. The sound is gentle, sophisticated, yet full of life and clear. There is virtuosity here but without overpowering the poetry and freshness of compositions. At the heart of the arrangements are the folk elements, tastefully integrated in a tapestry of classical and modern sonorities that gives a timeless dimension to the overall musical signature.
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Gianmarco Liguori
(New Zealand)
Composer, guitar

Guitarist Gianmarco Liguori found a very interesting creative formula to deliver his concept. Under his artistic direction, a band composed by five experimented musicians produced a collection of ten colorful musical "paintings" peformed in the most "freestyle" original way. This fusion of jazz, latin, rock, folk, ambient, contemporary music and other unpredictable sonorities and rhytms defying any categorization is performed with such intensity and irresistible joy that makes you listen to this CD over and over!
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Daniela Nardi
Singer, composer
(Canada)

Daniela Nardi's poetry place her next to Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen, just to name a few other famous Canadian musicians. From jazz, pop, and folk she extracts just those colorful elements that allows her to create a personal, intimate, warm sound. Listening to her music one will realize that this is not "just" entertainment, there's a message within. Her voice transfers emotions and sincerity without loud "stunning" effects yet powerful enough to make a statement. Imagine a friend sitting next to you, singing a story about life, love and experiences in the most natural way.
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Joe Zawinul
1932-2007


Discover the Jazz of the World!

Jazz, under its various traditional or modern expressions such as: avant-garde, hard-bop, post-bop, folk-jazz, crossover jazz, jazz-funk, was adopted today by almost all the cultures of the planet.

Sometimes not categorized as jazz, this new music belongs to a mixture of styles labeled as jazz world fusion, although one size doesn't fit all! In a globalized world where places and people develop closer ties in time and space jazz become an international music beyond national and cultural borders.

Many musicians left their home countries taking with them their cultural heritage later integrated in their compositions along with other influences. New styles of jazz are still in the development, while old ones coexist with contemporary and innovative creations.

At this point in time is hard to define jazz today, the mix of styles and approaches is getting more and more eclectic and complex.

JazzWorld Quest.com is an online project for discovering newer or older jazz styles, world music, crossover or simply...music!
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Son of legendary keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, Tony specializes in the production of music videos and music documentaries.

His lifetime involvement with music and being a musician himself is the successful ingredient that creates the natural condition for filming a performance, capturing extraordinary moments.

Tony has filmed music videos for various contemporary jazz artists including producing, directing and editing the acclaimed DVD on the jazz fusion quintessential group: Yellowjackets titled "25" for Heads Up international/ Telarc released end of May 2006.

His approach to production aims to the core of musicianship, providing correct production planning, guaranteed time saving and cost-effective productions that are enticing and...enemy of the ordinary.