Die Operette, eine Melodienkette, klettenhaft uns Glück zu bringen das ist ihr Beruf. Das Glück das sie besingen ist jedoch uns nur geliehen. Der Alltag holt uns immer ein, doch einer Sache sollten ganz gewiss wir sein. In allen unsren Lebensdingen könnt dieses Glück verborgen sein. Durchs Saxophon erklingen meist auf starken Schwingen diese Lebensdinge sanft in vollem Klange mild durchschwungen glänzt die Freiheit die wir uns errungen.

All'origine vi è la figura ambigua, carica di sensualità e per certi versi misteriosa di Louise Brooks, icona del cinema muto, scomparsa alla soglia degli ottant'anni, sola e dimenticata nonostante una tardiva riabilitazione artistica. Dai pensieri e dalle suggestioni evocate da una personalità così carismatica prende spunto la musica di Brooks, quasi una sequenza organizzata di fermo-immagini attraverso i quali il sassofonista e compositore umbro Cristiano Arcelli dà forma compiuta alle personali, immaginifiche visioni musicali.

OC DC once again finds Get The Blessing elbowing their way out of easy categorisation. The Bristol-based four-piece have deftly ploughed their jazzy post-rock furrow since the release of their debut All Is Yes back in 2008, drawing enthusiastic comparisons to similarly inventive acts like Tortoise and Polar Bear. The follow-up, 2009's Bugs In Amber, cemented their affable rapport with critics and fans alike, and further defied the boundaries and boxes that were placed around them - the Metro claimed in its glowing review that, "Occasionally you hear a jazz album that you know would shift truckloads of units if only it weren't labelled ‘jazz'. Bugs In Amber is just such a disc."

UMO Jazz Orchestra is a Finnish big band. It was founded in 1975 by jazz musicians Heikki Sarmanto and Esko Linnavalli. UMO is an abbreviation of "Uuden Musiikin Orkesteri" (New Musical Orchestra). Since 1984 UMO has been a professional orchestra which is financed by Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the city of Helsinki. UMO has been toured in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. and has worked with Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Mercer Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Maria Schneider, Michael Brecker, John Scofield, and Lenny Pickett.

Recorded live at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica last November, this album documents the meeting of the doyen of Italian jazz, Enrico Rava, with Joe Lovano, masterful US tenorist of Sicilian heritage. Rava and Lovano front a spirited quintet that includes lyrical pianist Giovanni Guidi, dynamic drummer Gerald Cleaver and rising star bassist Dezron Douglas (who makes his ECM debut here). Well-loved tunes by the two bandleaders form the core of the programme, including Enrico’s intricate “Interiors” and “Secrets” and Joe’s vigorous Texas blues “Forth Worth”, which recalls the energies of Ornette and Dewey Redman. The programme concludes with an extended and powerful medley that roams across the history of modern jazz as it gathers together Lovano’s “Drum Song”, John Coltrane’s “Spiritual” and the standard tune “Over The Rainbow”.

Dawai In Paradise is the 2011 CD by Indonesian guitarist Dewa Budjana. This was released in 2013 by Moonjune.