The ensemble makes its point both with the fantasic playing of the wind instruments as well as the virtuosic precision of Dave Holland's bass.

They started out in 1981 as a New York City street band, playing jazz, gospel and classics. Now they're an internationally acclaimed quartet forming a tighly-knit unit with their own distinctive identity, performing both traditional and experimental…

This programme brings together Gulda's Chopin recital, Pour ma douce, and a performance by Gulda and Limpe Fuchs, entitled Consonanza Personale (see below), in which they play a selection of their own compositions and improvisations.

In this concert, recorded live at the Munich Philharmonie, pianist Friedrich Gulda is joined by Limpe Fuchs, who plays various instruments, including piano, several types of flute, percussion and stringed instruments. Gulda and Fuchs play a selection…

This recording captures a spontaneous piano duo in the Munich Philharmonie, which clearly illustrates the common background of these two pianists in the Vienna of the 1940s and '50s.

Joe Zawinul's jazz group Weather Update gave this concert at the Munich Philharmonie. Alongside Zawinul on synthesisers are Victor Bailey on bass, Bobbie Thomas Junior and Peter Erskine on percussion, and Steve Khan on guitar.

Barbara Thompson has long been acknowledged as the first lady of the sax. Together with her band "Paraphernalia" and Jon Hiseman, she ranks among the world's top Jazz-rock ensembles.

Bireli Lagrene plays with Babik Reinhardt in a tribute to Django Reinhardt.

In 1987's Open Air Festival "Jazz in Antibes", the Irakere All Stars play "El Duque" - a hommage to Duke Ellington - and "Samba for drums".

Following this concert, the leading Russian jazz pianist Leonid Chizhik was heralded as a real iscovery for the West. His programme includes his own compositions and jazz standards, as well as extensive improvisation