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Blind Io At LOFT, Cologne

by Matty Bannond
March 31, 2025

Blind Io LOFT Cologne, Germany March 17, 2025 It is early evening in Cologne and the fragile springtime sunlight has vanished. Cold, dry air clings to lungs and scratches windpipes as audience members climb four flights of stairs to LOFT. Inside this dusty post-industrial venue, the windows are shut and invisible ...

Alexander Dubovoy

Born: February 17, 1994

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Alexander Dubovoy is a Berlin-based pianist, singer, and composer. He graduated from Yale University in May 2016, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on the history of jazz in the Soviet Union. Since graduating, he has performed at storied international venues, including the Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC, Donau115 in Berlin, Rakuya Label in Tokyo, etc. His solo album Portraits Drawn Without You has garnered over 8 million streams on Spotify. He currently works for Groupmuse, a cooperative arts organization with a social mission to ensure fair pay for musicians

Benjamin Lackner Quintet al Doubletime Jazz & Kultur Club di Hameln

by Mario Calvitti
February 28, 2025

Benjamin Lackner Quintet Doubletime Jazz & Kultur Club Hameln, Germania 26 gennaio 2025 In occasione della pubblicazione del nuovo lavoro su etichetta ECM, Spindrift, il quintetto del pianista berlinese Benjamin Lackner ha intrapreso un tour promozionale europeo in Gennaio, toccando otto città in Germania e le capitali di Spagna, ...

'Flugelhorn & Strings - Jazz Meets Classic' By Gerhard Daum Now Available

February 7, 2025

Gerhard Daum's new instrumental album Flugelhorn & Strings will be released on February 7, 2025 on streaming platforms. The award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Gerhard Daum impressively combines jazzy flugelhorn sounds with classical string arrangements, creating a unique atmospheric sound world. A sound that touches The flugelhorn, known for its warm, velvety sound, is at the center ...

Prepared: The Munich Trio Making Minimalism Move

by Lawrence Peryer
January 17, 2025

Munich's experimental music scene has yielded Prepared, a trio that merges chamber music, minimalism and dance music through a distinct lineup of prepared piano, bass clarinet and drums. The group brings together three established musicians, Chris Gall, Florian Riedl, and Christoph Holzhauser, whose individual paths through Argentinian tango, folk music, and German hip-hop intersect in musically ...

Christoph Dallach: Krautrock Origins from Schlager to Synthesizers

by Lawrence Peryer
December 21, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On author Christoph Dallach, who joins us to discuss his book Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock (Faber & Faber, 2024). Christoph has spent years tracking down the pioneers who spent the late 1960s in West Germany's basements and practice rooms, creating sounds unlike anything else in rock and roll.

Nduduzo Makhathini At The Philharmonie

by Matty Bannond
December 2, 2024

Nduduzo Makhathini The Philharmonie Cologne, Germany November 23, 2024 In the South African district of uMgungundlovu, November is a late-spring month of flipflops and chilled drinks. But icy wind was howling against gloved hands and mugs of hot Glühwein in Cologne on this November evening. The ...

JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...

Jazzfest Berlin 2024

by Giuseppe Segala
November 11, 2024

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Chiesa Monumentale Kaiser Wilhelm Jazzfest Berlin 2024 Berlino 31 ottobre--3 novembre 2024 Nel programma che celebrava il sessantesimo compleanno del Jazzfest Berlin, e che ne scandiva la sessantunesima edizione, non c'era solo musica. Ovvero, attorno al ricco e appetitoso ...

Younee

PIONEER OF “FREE CLASSIC & JAZZ”

Younee, composer and singer-songwriter from South Korea, has long left her mark, not only due to her unique and virtuoso piano playing. By means of her awesome power of improvisation and that exceptional gift of being able to improvise and to compose freely on a classical foundation, she has defined her very own style: Free Classic & Jazz!

It is with Younee’s spontaneous and freely composed musical pieces in the course of her breathtaking live appearances that she succeeds to win over her audiences again and again. This is why her next album will feature live-recordings of her most exciting live compositions from concerts between 2017 and 2019. Her first two albums had taken the bestseller charts by storm, catapulting her to the No. 1 position. While her German debut album “Jugendstil” (2014) had still relied on Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and other “classics” as inspiration, Younee, on her next album “My Piano” (2016), by way of her incredible technique and 11 self-penned compositions, had virtually lit brilliant fireworks between furioso and pianissimo, taking the listener on a highly emotional journey into a new world of piano music. Down to the last note, everything happens intuitively, spontaneously, unexpectedly without ever slipping into the realm of “kitsch”, or hiding behind a virtuosity because of virtuosity’s sake. “That’s me” says Younee, who has made her current home in Bavaria. The manner in which Younee presents her music to a live audience does not only have its charm, each time it is as if she were reinventing her own music over again.