Jazz meets techno meets big band. It really shouldn't work…and yet, as anyone who has ever heard or seen the Jazzrausch Bigband will know, the reality of the band in action firmly knocks that idea on the head. Ever since Jazzrausch started in 2014, it has been on an unstoppable path of growth and development which has been very much on the band’s own terms.

Bassist, composer and arranger, Carl Mayotte is recognized in the jazz world as an exceptional musician. With this third album, Escale, he presents a personal work, which he composed, interpreted and produced. An invitation to discover his universe.

Chip Wickham , original member of the Gondwana Orchestra, chose three deep cuts associated with the legendary pianist Lonnie-Liston Smith, subtly updated to create a beautiful 21st Century take on the Spiritual jazz of the early 70s…

Swedish multi-instrumentalist and composer Gustaf Ljunggren has teamed up with Icelandic Bass Guitar player and composer Skúli Sverrisson (Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bill Frisell, Blonde Redhead ) to create an album that wishes to offer the listener private musical spaces to dwell in for a while.

Theo Pascal, bassist, composer and pioneer producer in the Jazz Lusophone scene, leads QUAMUNDOS2, a powerful collective made of Portuguese musicians with a heritage connection to several countries like Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, India, S.tomé, etc. Featuring special guests: long-time collaborator and award-winning acclaimed singer-songwriter - Carmen Souza - on piano, Rhodes and vocals. Plus virtuoso Saxophonist Lenny Sendersky from St. Petersburg, based in Tel Aviv/Israel.

The EP follows on from Memory Streams, their fifth studio album and second for Gondwana Records which was released in October 2019. Sonically it explores a similar world to the full-length album, but where Memory Streams focused on a punchier live sound, WWT explores modern classical and ambient textures.

There’s a heavy-heart feeling that touches every track on ‘Nocturnal’, Sebastian Studnitzky’s latest album. Not quite dark enough to characterize a melancholy, rather the album unfolds a gentle blend of blues and serenity that’s most common on Sunday evenings or during creative insomniac spells at dawn.

Aventura Quartet is the latest project from german saxophone player and composer, Werner Hüsgen. The music, composed, rehearsed and recorded in corona-lockdown and re-opening reflects both, the desire for Live-Music and the joy of liberation from restrictions. It can be described as contemporary European Jazz, but also includes current Chamber Music such as World-Music, without denying its rooting in Jazztradition. Rich in detail with improvisational interaction, the quartet reaches numerous musical worlds – sometimes in a lyrical mood, sometimes with glowing energy.

Following his trio debut ‘Triptych’ last year, trumpeter Matthias Lindermayr presents his duo record ‘Sequence’ with long-time companion and ECM Recording Artist Matthieu Bordenave on tenor saxophone.

Alexey León is a Cuban-Russian saxophonist, flutist and composer. He was born in Manzanillo, Cuba and raised in Moscow, Russia. León won the prestigious Cuban Award “JoJazz 1st Prize” in 2017 and has three outstanding solo releases behind him: Cuba meets Russia (2015), Cuban Connection (2018) and Okudzhava For My Mother (2020). Influenciado is Alexey León’s fourth album…

Bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick (Portico Quartet) launches new collaborative project with saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands).

Thisness is Miles Okazaki's third volume of compositions for Trickster, a quartet featuring Matt Mitchell on piano, Anthony Tidd on bass, and Sean Rickman on drums. The album is a set of themes that are shuffled and connected in different ways to make four large movements.