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Matthias Schubert

Born: 1960

Matthias Schubert, *1960 in Kassel, Germany This man is one of the leading German saxophone players. If you have ever seen him on stage you'll hardly forget his performance. His extremely powerful playing, the richness of ideas in his improvisations and his inspired compositions give him a prime position in German Jazz.

He got his first awards at the Jazz Festival "de Meervart" in Amsterdam 1980 and at the competition of the International Jazz Federation 1982. In 1993 he received a grant from the W. Zippel Foundation in Kassel. 1995 he received the renowned Jazzaward of the "Südwest Funk". 1996 he got an award at "Internationaler Musikwettbewerb für junge Kultur", Duesseldorf/Germany.

Simon Nabatov: Time Labyrinth

by Angelo Leonardi
December 31, 2020

Registrato il 17 aprile 2019 a Colonia, “Time Labyrinth" è la prima parte di un progetto di Simon Nabatov denominato Changing Perspectives, che sarà completato nel prossimo futuro. Il pianista e compositore di origine russa vive nella città tedesca da quasi tre decenni ed è una figura di primo piano nell'universo della musica improvvisata ...

Time Labyrinth

By Simon Nabatov

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Waves; Metamorph; Reader; Right Off; Repeated; Choral.

The Goldman Variations

By Andreas Willers

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2020
Track listing: Case of Need; Süßes Holz; Friede Den Hüten; Quorum; Goldman's Sack; Emma Goldman; Always Never; Clean Profits Trilemma A/B/C; Grau Normal Ja; Modified Princess.

Andreas Willers 7 of 8 - The Goldman Variations

By Andreas Willers

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1 Case Of Need 2 Süßes Holz 3 Friede Den Hüten 4 Quorum 5 Goldman's Sack 6 Emma Goldman 7 Always Never 8 Clean Profits Trilemma A 9 Clean Profits Trilemma B 10 Clean Profits Trilemma C 11 Grau Normal Ja 12 Modified Princess

Simon Nabatov: Time Labyrinth

by Glenn Astarita
August 9, 2020

Pianist Simon Nabatov is well-known for his explosive semi-structured presentations and freely navigated improvisational advances within this seemingly limitless musical space. But Nabatov is a composer who often stretches the perceived limits of avant-garde jazz. With this effort, he pursues a largely new approach by employing chamberesque forums via an acoustic-electric platform, intensified by consummate woodwind ...

Big in Japan, Part 3: Satoko Fujii’s Year of Living Dangerously

by Karl Ackermann
January 4, 2019

In the first two parts of this series we looked at the origins of jazz in Japan and its adherence to the American style of composing, arranging and playing. Though jazz has been popular in Japan from the earliest days, it was--as in the United States--hardly met with unanimous approval in a country that prized classical ...

Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier

by Duncan Heining
August 28, 2018

The following is an excerpt is from “Chapter 9: The Eighties or Graham Collier -The Wilderness Years" of Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining (Equinox Publishing, 2018). All Rights Reserved. The late Graham Collier was a bandleader, a composer and a jazz educator. As far as this latter ...

Renato Cordovani, Agitatore Jazz

by Neri Pollastri
June 25, 2018

Classe 1946, il sassofonista e clarinettista Renato Cordovani è uno dei musicisti storici dell'area fiorentina, per la sua presenza costante (pur con le pause che si è preso), per l'impulso creativo che ha offerto nei suoi oltre quarant'anni di carriera, per i musicisti che ha contribuito a far arrivare in città dal centro Europa, per il ...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ichigo Ichie

by Karl Ackermann
August 2, 2015

If there is any doubt that a Satoko Fujii orchestra is an ensemble of a different color, one simply needs to look at the bleeding-edge personnel that have played a part in her New York, Chicago and several Japan based versions. Now a Berlin variety of her troupe presents Ichigo Ichie, the pianist's first European player ...