The pianist performs at the Liederhalle Stuttgart in Germany.
Bilal came up in Germantown, a northwest neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A deep interest in jazz was fostered by his father, who took him to the city's clubs, singing eventually became more than an interest. He attended New York's new school for jazz and contemporary music, where he ...
A chat with local and international artists to get an in-depth look at their lives and music. They play some amazing music in these one-of-a-kind, live sessions.
Popa Chubby, born as Ted Horowitz, is an American blues singer and guitarist, who has become one of the most popular figures of New York's blues scene. Early on in his career he released the album 'Booty and the Beast' (1995), which became one of the 1990s's best-selling blues albums. Chubby desc...
One of the bands taking part in this series is Os Capoeira. This ensemble practices the traditional Brazilian martial art from Bahia it is named after, combining elements of dance, acrobatics, and percussive music. Moreover, Os Capoeira runs a cultural center in São Paulo. Let yourself be inspire...
L.A. born Saxophonist Kamasi Washington and trombonist Ryan Porter co-founded West Coast Get Down - a musical collective fusing jazz and funk with hip-hop. The musicians join forces and take the vibes of Los Angeles to jazz club BIRD in Rotterdam.
Charlie Parker Philharmonie de Paris.
Performance by the Guy Salamon Group, led by drummer and composer Guy Salamon.
P Damasiewicz & Power of the Horns perform at the Jazzahead! 2018 festival.
Performance by Naïssam Jalal with pianist Leonardo Montana and double bassist Claude Tchamitchian.
The MotorMusic Studios in Mechelen, Belgium, attract many great musicians to the city. A wide variety of visiting international jazz musicians share their art of making jazz music with us in the DJAZZ series 'Belgium Sessions'.
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.
VIVA perform at The Morgenland Festival, a German music festival that began in 2005.
Two vocalists, one from Paris and the other from Bern, were brought together by a chance encounter in 2014. They both do more than just sing well. Leïla Martial and Andreas Schaerer stretch their vocal boundaries.
A brilliant interplay between the two musicians and combines the several worlds of jazz, Malian and classical music.
Interviews and live performances from jazz artists on the mountains of Bergen.
Pioneering folk/pop quartet The Brothers Four was formed in 1957 by University of Washington fraternity brothers. Their consistently smooth, warm, and lush harmonies set them apart from others.
In 2018, WOMEX was held in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. One of its showcase participants, Ladama, is a quintet of women multi-instrumentalists from Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia.
At the Festival de Saint-Denis 2010, Ibrahim Maalouf performs an original composition inspired by Hildegard's music, including a children's choir and brass instruments. The choir is led by the brilliant conductor of Radio France, Sofi Jeannin.
Legendary pianist Oscar Peterson gives an immortal duo performance with bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, in 1979.
Performance by the Guy Salamon Group, led by drummer and composer Guy Salamon.
A concert of Freddie Hubbard and the Satchmo Legacy at Estival in Lugano, Switzerland in 1987, which highlights the bebop legend's classic style and silky tone.
The bustling streets of Tel Aviv resonate in the music of the new generation of Israeli jazz artists. The series offers an eye-witness account of the incredible inventiveness and diversity of the Israeli jazz scene.
The crème de la crème of the Paris jazz, blues, gypsy and funk scene performs at the legendary club annex restaurant Le Resevoir.