'Jazz a Vienne' is one of the world's most prestigious jazz festivals. Singer Cecile McLorin Salvant performs vaudeville, country, blues, broadway songs, rarities, and her own compositions.
The international trade fair, exhibition, and festival, jazzahead!, is one of the most important events in the jazz community. Hosted annually in Bremen, Germany, it brings together musicians, agents, organizers, jazz experts, and music enthusiasts.
An evening with the Foursight quartet takes you on a tour of Ron Carter's discography during his show at Jazz sous les pommiers 2019.
Legendary American saxophonist Stan Getz gives an unforgettable performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 1980.
Rotterdam's `BIRD' is a club, café and restaurant with a live music programme that's deeply rooted in jazz, and also branches out towards soul, funk, hip-hop and electronic music.
The crème de la crème of the Paris jazz, blues, gypsy and funk scene performs at the legendary club annex restaurant Le Resevoir.
The veritable tombak virtuosos of Trio Chemirani, consisting of Chemirani Senior and Juniors, enrapture the Festival de Saintes. The tombak is a Persian percussion instrument, but its rhythms are universal.
Fay Claassen, who became internationally known through her album `Two Portraits of Chet Baker', performs in concert.
An amazing concert of the Amsterdam Conservatory Concert Big Band with a Duke Ellington special.
This recording features 17 songs and is one of the finest examples of big jazz band ever to be captured on film. Shot in Switzerland and Belgium in 1960, these two concerts are the only known visual documents of this legendary tour.
Portraits of artists, concerts and festivals that give good impressions of the jazz world. Both famous and less famous jazz artists will give new insights in their life, such as why they wrote a certain song and what was the first record they bought.
Two intimate concerts filmed in the '60s for Danish television at the pinnacle of one of Sonny Rollins' most creative periods.
Legendary free jazz pianist Burton Greene rose to fame in New York City's free jazz scene of the 1960s. Exploring various spontaneous improvisational styles, Greene performs live at Cafe OTO in London, UK.
Dino Saluzzi, one of Argentina's tango music masters, has been building his legacy since the mid-1980s. His accordion-like bandoneon defines Argentina's tango music.
Vocalist and composer Winston McAnuff was born in the hills of Jamaica in 1957. On stage at the French world music festival Les Escales Saint-Nazaire, Winston Electric Dread McAnuff steps beyond his role as Rastafarian preacher.
Portraits of artists, concerts and festivals that give good impressions of the jazz world. Both famous and less famous jazz artists will give new insights in their life, such as why they wrote a certain song and what was the first record they bought.
In 2018, WOMEX was held in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. One of its showcase participants, Lucibela, comes from the island of São Nicolau. Her assured, warm voice is shaped by years of assimilation of the sounds of morna and coladera.
Portraits of artists, concerts and festivals that give good impressions of the jazz world. Both famous and less famous jazz artists will give new insights in their life, such as why they wrote a certain song and what was the first record they bought.
The international trade fair, exhibition, and festival, jazzahead!, is one of the most important events in the jazz community. Hosted annually in Bremen, Germany, it brings together musicians, agents, organizers, jazz experts, and music enthusiasts.
Berlin People, a Berlin-based jazz ensemble founded in 2018. Saxophonist Tobias Meinhart brought together three of his long-time German peers (pianist Ludwig Hornung, bassist Tom Berkmann, and drummer Mathias Ruppnig) for recordings with the American jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Their core so...
Unusual locations in several of the world's metropoles provide the setting for brief jazz performances: from garage buildings, multi-storey car parks, street corners, subway trains and parks. The city merges with the musical creations of artists.
Concert featuring Art Blakey on drums, Bobby Timmons on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass, Benny Golson on saxophone, and the legendary trumpet player Lee Morgan. Filmed in Belgium in 1958, this is the only known visual document of this influential band.
After jazz reached Istanbul, it firmly took root there. Quite a few jazz bars have sprung up to cater to the genre's fans. The concerts featured in this series were recorded at several Istanbul jazz clubs, featuring some of the very best jazz bands.
Performance by the Guy Salamon Group, led by drummer and composer Guy Salamon.