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Heinz Sauer

New & Older Post Bop, Free Jazz and Avant Garde from Europe, NYC, and Montreal

by Jon Greenbaum
March 1, 2026

Lots of new and some older music from Italy, Germany, Finland, Montreal, NYC, England, Estonia, and Sweden.Playlist Kaja Draksler Octet “Skylark" from Bare, Unfolding (Clean Feed Records) 00:00 Joe Morris “Slipshod" from Racket Club (About Time Records) 07:05 Federico Calcagno & The Dolphians “Children of Gaza" from Face The Music (Da Vinci Jazz Records) ...

Purple Jazz: A Tribute to Prince, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 27, 2023

This week we look into both the jazz side of Prince, including the unexpressed potentials of his collaboration with Miles Davis, and covers of his music by notable jazz players, from Nina Simone to Joshua Redman. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nina ...

Michael Wollny: Treasures from the Wunderkammer

by Kurt Ellenberger
July 6, 2021

German pianist Michael Wollny is one of the most exciting and important jazz artists of our time. His work is marked by exquisite pianism and a restless creativity and search for expression that knows no stylistic boundaries. Wollny's output has been remarkable both in quality and quantity--he is in his early 40s, and has released almost ...

Various Artists: Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sounds of MPS

by Chris May
September 8, 2018

The description “spiritual jazz" means different things to different people. It was first applied to the predominantly African American style platformed by the Strata-East and Muse labels in the early and mid 1970s. The tag was not introduced until a decade later, and a better one would have been “cultural jazz," despite the tautology--for although every ...

Don't Explain - Live in Concert

By Heinz Sauer

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. All Blues (Miles Davis); 02. Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince); 03. Don't Explain (Billie Holiday); 04. Wenn der Pastor im grünen Hemd… (Heinz Sauer); 05. Open Fields (Heinz Sauer); 06. There Again (Wollny, Michael); 07. Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan); 08. Believe, Beleft, Below (Svensson, Esbjörn / Berglund, Dan / Öström, Magnus); 09. Space Cake (Wollny, Michael); 10 Kind Of Blues - 04:11 (Heinz Sauer).

MAGIMC: Polishing The Mirror

by Dave Wayne
October 25, 2013

The only thing that's puzzling about Polishing the Mirror is the album's title. I cannot fathom its significance. The music, on the other hand, is as direct and as immediate as it gets. Here, we have the wonderful improvising pianist Thollem McDonas in no-holds-barred free-jazz mode. Accompanied by saxophonist Eduardo Marraffa and percussionist Stefano Giust--two of ...

Heinz Sauer - Michael Wollny: Don't Explain - Live in Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 30, 2013

Dieci anni di collaborazione con quattro album all'attivo (tra i quali A Certain Beauty e If (Blue) then (Blue)) testimoniano una partnership sorprendente tra musicisti anagraficamente assai distanti - Michael Wollny è appena trentacinquenne, Heinz Sauer ha da poco doppiato la boa degli ottanta - ma entrambi personalità dalla mente aperta, sorretti da innata curiosità concretizzatasi ...

Jazzdor Berlin 2013: Berlin, Germany, June 5-8, 2013

by Henning Bolte
June 21, 2013

Jazzdor Berlin 2013Kesselhaus in der KulturbrauereiBerlin, GermanyJune 5-8, 2013The Jazzdor festival is part of Berlin's still highly attractive cultural and artistic climate of the post- wall era. The seventh edition of this four-day festival took place during the first week of June, 2013 at the Kesselhaus of a former brewery in ...

Enjoy Jazz Festival: Heidelberg / Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 30-November 7, 2012

by John Kelman
November 26, 2012

2012 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 30-November 7, 2012After a week in northern Sweden covering the 2012 Umeå Jazz Festival--where the were days shortening and the temperature dropping--moving south to Heidelberg, Germany was a welcome respite from the oncoming onslaught of winter that's also approaching back home in Canada. For this year's coverage of ...