A sample of today's finest jazz artists, providing an overview of the variety, internationality and fascination of today's world of jazz.

Georgie Fame is "Yeah, Yeah!" and " The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde", but with his unmistakable voice and his special hammond organ sound, he is also a past master of R&B. Now Georgie Fame is making a triumphal comeback with "The Blue Flames".

"The most exciting woman in the world". A black American voice with an international flair and one of the reigning queens and goddesses of blues and jazz.

In this concert, recorded live from the Philharmonie, Munich, Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias plays with with Jay Randall Anderson (bass) and Adam Nussbaum (drums). Her distinctive style of music is in the bebop tradition, but infused with samba…

Cuban keyboard ace Gonzalo Rubalcaba is accompanied by Reinaldo Melian (trumpet), Philipe Cabrera (bass) and Julio Barretto (drums), in this concert.

Guided by two children and several stars of the classical music scene, our film takes us to the picturesque location of Nürnberg. In St. Lorenz Church, Enoch zu Gutenberg conducts Christmas music and Christmas Carols. James Galway and friends perform…

During one concert tour around the world, this quartet set the standard of what Jazz can sound like: traditional, racy, funkadelic, grand.

The newly-restored fifteenth-century Amanduskirche, Bad Urach, provides the setting for this concert. Charpentier's Te Deum in D major and Fauré's Requiem Op.48 are performed by the Südfunk Choir and the RTL Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Hager…

The two soloists Eddie Daniels (cl) and Gary Burton (vib) played together with their collegues Makoto Ozone (p), Marc Johnson (b) and Martin Richards (dr) this tribute to two great musicians of the thirties and forties. Benny Goodman was probably one…

George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger, and composer. Equally at home on the classical concert stage as in jazz clubs, he is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz. In this live recording from the Munich…