The Publicist: Antje Huebner

by B.D. Lenz
September 11, 2025

With technology transforming our world and every aspect of our lives changing so rapidly, it can be difficult to keep up. And the music business, like every other enterprise, has seen the same metamorphosis. For anyone who simply wants to be a musician, it's just not that easy anymore. With all the tools to manage a ...

Anouar Brahem Quartet alla Elbphilharmonie di Amburgo

by Mario Calvitti
May 16, 2025

Anouar Brahem Quartet Elbphilharmonie, Laeiszhall Amburgo 1 Maggio 2025 In occasione della pubblicazione del suo nuovo lavoro After the Last Sky il musicista tunisino suonatore di oud Anouar Brahem ha intrapreso un breve tour promozionale in alcune citt�� europee, toccando Francia, Olanda, Germania, Svizzera e Belgio, in compagnia degli stessi musicisti ...

Benjamin Schaefer

Benjamin Schaefer (*1981) is a jazz pianist/ composer based in Hamburg, Germany. He studied jazz piano and composition at Cologne conservatory and is a former member of the German Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO). Concert tours have led him to 26 countries on four continents. He has played hundreds of club and festival shows, many of them with his own bands Benjamin Schaefer Trio (2004-14), Expressway Sketches (2008-21), Quiet Fire (2014-19), Hive Mind (2017-19), Stone Flowers (2020- ) and solo (2022- ). He leads his own concert series open.fundus (2019- ) in Hamburg.

A New Documentary From Filmmaker Michele Brangwen Follows The Musicians Of The NDR Bigband On A Weeklong Creative Journey With Grammy-Nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans

November 5, 2022

The NDR Bigband rehearses and performs “A Conversation," a suite by Hagans, who also conducts and solos. Performers discuss their connection to the music and to each other. The hour-long documentary premieres November 6 on Facebook and November 7 on YouTube. Watch a preview of ��A Week in Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans�� A Conversation�� ...

Eda And: Live in Hamburg

by Arthur R George
October 8, 2022

Turkish pianist Eda And went large in her ambitious debut CD, Augmented Life (Kalan), in 2018, leading a contemporary jazz big band in Istanbul through compositions and arrangements that she originally created for the NDR Bigband in Hamburg, Germany. She has returned, scaled back and in a completely different direction, solo, with Live in Hamburg on ...

Robben Ford and Bill Evans New Album 'Common Ground' Out On September 30th On MPS

September 24, 2022

MPS is proud to announce the release of the newest project by Robben Ford and Bill Evans, called Common Ground on September 30th, 2022. The multiple times Grammy nominees Ford and Evans have shared the stage in Europe, North America and even Japan and already released a collaborative album called The Sun Room together in 2019 ...

Lars Scherzberg: Top Floor Encounter

by John Chacona
May 29, 2022

The first phase of jazz was characterized by melodic improvisation. In its second phase improvisers dealt with harmony and, in the current phase, density is the improviser's concern. So says Anthony Braxton—if I understand him correctly (if anyone does). If so, then Top Floor Encounter may be as characteristic of our time as Armstrong's “Weatherbird" was ...

McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard, 1986

April 21, 2022

In 1986, Fabrik��or Factory��stood on the west side of Hamburg, Germany, in the Altona district. Back then, the former machine-parts factory was a cultural center frequented by young people in the left-wing eco-movement and by those on the right, depending on what was on the bill at the performance space. Sometimes the two groups converged when ...

Lounge Jazz

Lounge Jazz ist niveauvoller Jazz f��r Veranstaltungen aller Art. Es wird bewu?t Musik in einer f��r alle angenehmen Lautst?rke dargeboten. Alles ist m?glich. Mit und ohne S?nger oder S?ngerin, Kontrabass, Gitarre, ged?mpfte Trompete, Klavier.? Sie haben die M?glichkeit -je nach Budget- zwischen mehreren Besetzungen und Musikstilen zu w?hlen. Ob Lounge, Jazz, Pop oder Soul -die Profimusiker haben f��r jeden etwas dabei.? Gerne k?nnen wir auch f��r Online-Events gebucht werden. In unserem eigenen Tonstudio steht uns alles hierf��r Notwendige zur Verf��gung.

Hamburg

By Stephanie Lottermoser

Label: Leopard Records
Released: 2020