In the “country of melodrama”- Italy - exists a very exclusive club consisting of only 27 persons, each of whom is named after one of Verdi’s operas. The club will not accept any more members than those 27, but a little boy strives to become one of…

The Simon Bolivar Big Band was created in 2010 by the Venezuelan drummer Andres Briceño and Valdemar Rodriguez, professor at the Simon Bolivar Conservatory of Music in Venezuela. The band was set up with the aim to promote Jazz music throughout…

Friar Alessandro is a modest monk living in the hilltop monastery of Assisi and an award winning recording artist. He is a charming and spiritual young man with a gentle tenor voice whose musical message of hope, peace and brotherly love is…

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.

The Viennese jazz musician Joe Zawinul performs on a huge synthesizer outfit in a concert recorded live from Kongressaal in Munich.

In this live recording, the Viennese piano duo give a firework display of piano technique, Miles Davis's classic All Blues, Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Batik's own composition, Impressions.

This live recording from the Kongressaal in Munich reveals the enormous musical talent of the legendary jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. In a solo piano performance, Tyner plays dark jazz from the era of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, as well as more recent…

In a live recording from the Amerikahaus, Munich, Gulda reveals the versatility of his keyboard playing. On the clavichord he plays three preludes and fugues from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; on the piano, his own re-working of Schubert's Der…

A spell-binding performance of Taylor's own compositions and improvisations is captured in this no-holds-barred live recording from the Kongressaal in Munich.

These two virtuoso keyboard musicians met for the first time at the Munich Klaviersommer 1982 and gave a concert in the Kongressaal. Alongside various improvisations they perform classic jazz standards and end with a lyrically rendered paraphrase of…