Prescribing Jazz: A Top Ten

by Artur Moral
March 30, 2025

National Doctors' Day is celebrated unevenly across our mistreated planet. It is absent in most countries, while it is observed as a holiday in a few. Coinciding (in the United States and Australia) with this day of recognition for a vital profession, this article is especially directed to the entire jazz-loving medical community, focusing on six ...

Lorenzo Petrocca

Born: February 18, 1964

Lorenzo Petrocca, born in 1964 at Crotone/southern Italy, came to Germany in 1979 as an emigrant with his family. He mastered the big changes of the two cultures and the loss of everything familiar to him by the boxing - a sport he already practised in Italy before. In 1981 he succeeded in being the Champion of Wuerttemberg in his weight class.From 1982 on he showed his first musical interests. At that time he was already 18 years old. And so he bought his first electric guitar. Soon after that he already played with Italian dance bands, from 1986 on within soul and funk bands among American soldiers. The Jazz he finally discovered in 1989 when he was already 25 years.Today Lorenzo can be heard with his new Band "Italian Organ Trio" together with Alberto Marsico and Tommy Bradascio, his "Lorenzo Petrocca Organ Trio" and his Quartet all over Germany and more and more in his home country Italy as well as in many European countries. Lorenzo Petrocca is also a demanded sideman, for example as a member of Ulla Haesen Band, Anne Czichowsky Trio, Max De Aloe Quartet, Barbara Bürkles Swingin' Woods , We remember Charles Swing Band, and also the "Olymp ALL STARS".In July 1998, he succeeded at the International Band Contest in Vienne-France as the second best band of the contest.In April 2001, he received the Honorary Citizenship of the City of New Orleans after a one week tour through Lousiana/USA.2011 winner of "Archtop-Germany CD des Jahres 2011" with his original composition CD "My Music" as BEST Jazz-guitar CD in Germany. Recently he released his first Solo Album "My Foolish Heart", which has been nominated for the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik".

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Davide Petrocca

Davide Petrocca,Acoustic Bassplayer,Guitarist,Composer and Teacher. Professional Musician since 1996. Styles;Modern Jazz,Mainstream,Bebop,Swing,Fusion,Free,Latin,Rock,Pop,Class ical. Studies of classical Guitar,electric/acoustic Bass and Composing in Stuttgart/Germany. Acoustic-Bass Studies with Niels Henning ?rsted Pedersen,Copenhagen-Denmark from 1999-2004. Performed and recorded with; Bireli Lagrene,Monty Alexander,Percy and Albert Heath,Howard Alden,Andreas Oberg,Bruce Barth,Ernie Watts,Randy Brecker,Antonio Hart,Phillip Catherine,Eddie Gomez,Niels Henning Oersted Pedersen,John Taylor,Benny Bailey,Howard Levy,Martin Taylor,Richard Galliano,Hank Jones,Andre Ceccarelli,Cedar Walton,Troy Davies,Kenny Washington,Alex Riel,Jeff Hamilton,Martin Drew,Jimmy Cobb,Thomas Clausen,Jim Snydero,Gillad Atzmon,Edward Simon,Jean Toussant,Deborah Brown,Olaf Polziehn,Ferenc Snetberger,Silvain Luc,Kuno Schmid,Franco D'Andrea,Gianni Basso,Charly Antolini,Kelly Lee Evans,Scott Hamilton,Jon Faddis, a.m.o Toured in Europe,Scandinavia,Japan,USA,Canada,New- Zealand,Russia, Festivals;Montreaux,North See,JVC,Barcelona,Nizza,Brugge,Luzern,Zurich,Aix en Provence,Salzburg,Vienna,Dublin,London,Burmigham,Edinghburg, Glasgow,Sidney,Lleida,Catania,Crotone,Paris,Marciac,Marseill e,Tokyo,Kyoto,Oslo,Copenhagen,Stockholm,Madrid,Mallorca,Brus sel,Den Haag,New Orleans,Wellington,Auckland,Moscow,St Petersburg,Helsinki,Budapest, a.m.o Over 70 Recording Productions as a Sideman

Calaminus

Born: June 12, 1978

Calaminus is a non-profit one-man-project from Stuttgart/Germany with the aim to produce groove-orientated instrumental music with the focus on genres like Funk, Fusion, (Acid/Nu)Jazz and Groove Pop, spiced with some ethnic influences of the worlds music sometimes. It started 2003 after a decade as a Singer/Songwriter on guitars & vocals and some bandwork. Since then I mainly work with sequencing, plug-ins, keys, samples and loops. Nearly everything you hear is sequenced (MIDI), but it should sound band-like. As Calaminus I also released 4 albums which can be downloaded for FREE as well:
Filet de Fonque (2010)
On the Trail (2012)
Grooveyard (2013)
To Another Place (2014)
These albums and all Calaminus music works are available for free under Creative Common Licence (CC-NC-ND), self-produced and strictly for non-commercial use! For more infos and music (downloads) visit the following sites:
Calaminus@SoundCloud
Calaminus Multigenre Side Project "Quipmusic"

Lajos Dudas

Born: February 18, 1941

Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax...)

He won international recognition, above all, with his successful composition URBAN BLUES at the International Jazz Competition in Monaco 1982. Joachim-Ernst Berendt writes in his THE GREAT JAZZBOOK : “Dudas is a stylist highly regarded in Europe for the tenderness and lightness of his free-tonal playing.” — “...and he can also plays the good old american blues.” CKCU-FM / Ottawa. In the 1980s he was ranked high year after year in the 'Top People Poll' the famous International Jazz Forum. After his period as a freelance musician (1963-73) Dudas has been a lecturer (School of Music in Neuss/GER) and also taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Rheinland College of Education. In addition, since 1976, after a short concentrating on classical music, he worked with well-known musicians on recordings, Radio-, TV-productions and tours : they include Albert Mangelsdorff, Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Tom van der Geld, Attila Zoller, Howard Johnson, Philipp van Endert, Tommy Vig, Charles Tolliver, Leonard Jones, Theo Joergensmann, Vitold Rek, etc... CREATIVE WORKS: over 65 Singles/LPs/CDs — Numerous Radio- and TV- Productions : ORF/Vienna, Bavarian Radio/Munich, West German Radio & Television/Cologne, Jazzmeeting Baden-Baden/SWR, Hungarian Radio/Budapest, Frankfurt Radio Jazz Group...

Wolfgang Dauner

Born: December 30, 1935

Wolfgang Dauner was a German jazz fusion pianist who worked in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen. He was the father of German drummer Florian Dauner, a member of the German hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier. Dauner attended the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, where he concentrated on composition, piano, and trumpet. In the 1960s he belonged to a sextet led by Joki Freund. As the leader of his trio, he recorded for the first time in 1964, an early session in the history of European free jazz. In 1969, he was leader and composer for Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart

Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone at Stuttgart Jazz Open 2018

by Phillip Woolever
July 22, 2018

Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone Schlossplatz Stuttgart Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany July 19, 2018 The Stuttgart Jazz Open was seeking special things to commemorate the festival's 25th anniversary edition. With a double bill featuring Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone, that goal was accomplished to the delight of a dancing, sellout ...

Tocame Son at the Zublin-Haus in Stuttgart

by Jean-Fran?ois Kalka
August 6, 2017

Text by Jacye Swallow The sultry notes of a lone trumpet bring to mind a balmy night sitting in a caf�� deep in the heart of Cuba, yet this summer night we are just outside Stuttgart. Swaying to the smooth interpretations of classic Cuban rhythms Tocame Son creates the atmosphere we would normally have ...

Stuttgart Jazz Open 2017

by Jean-Fran?ois Kalka
July 20, 2017

Over the course of ten days, the Stuttgart Jazz Open (SJO) played host to 40 performances across six venues, in and across greater Stuttgart. An outstanding cast of performers from the likes of Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norah Jones, Wayne Shorter, Lee Ritenour, to the young and talented Isabella Lundgren, recognized by the ...