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.

This uptempo, funky performance proves that BB King, one of the Masters of the Blues Guitar has still got it. The band features some of today's best Blues musicians playing all of BB King's classic songs.

In 2011 the Grand Opera Gala in support of the AIDS Foundation was held again at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the internationally acclaimed conductor welcome some of the world's leading Opera…

Four leading European jazz musicians play together in this concert which was recorded live from Munich Klaviersommer – Gerd Dudek (saxophone), Ali Haurand (double bass), Rob van den Broeck (keyboard) and Jirí Stivín (flute and saxophone). They…

“Jazz is more than just a style of music”, says Amro Salah. “It’s about freedom.” Salah, a jazz pianist, is an enthusiastic promoter of the genre. Every year he organises the Cairo Jazz Festival, but doesn’t view himself as a festival director: He is…

A film about Georges Bizet and his ill-starred masterpiece. This film has two themes: first the substance and narrative of Bizet's perennially popular opera and second the story of its disastrous première, which had such a dramatic effect on Bizet…

An in-depth documentary that showcases the variety of Charlie Mariano's musical universe. In the company of old friends and like-minded musicians, Mariano takes us on a journey around the globe, crossing the entire jazz landscape from Swing to Bebop…

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

Pianist Chick Corea and flutist Steve Kujala play solo and duet in a 1984 concert at the Kongresshalle Munich.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky was the first Russian conductor to be appointed head of major Western orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1978-81 and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 1981. Born in 1931, he made his début at the Bolshoi a year…