Bai Kamara's 7th longplayer and follow up to the highly acclaimed "Salone" album (i.a. features in the French Rolling Stone, cover stories in the UK magazines Echoes and Blues In Britain, nominated... more

Tony Williams certainly counts among those unique drummers in jazz today, whose work has had a lasting influence on styles and still does. At the tender age of 16, saxophonist Jackie McLean brought... more

A warm, funky voice, but just as sober and intimate. Bai Kamara Jr's music is a mix of soul, blues, roots, swamp, voodoo and jazz influences. He has shared the stage with international artists such... more

Two short snippets recorded live by and with Don Cherry bookend the album"Spellbound": an improvisation in a duo with Cherry on trumpet and Trilok, who can be heard on the drum set especially... more

In 1953 Gillespie is 36 years old and a world star in Jazz. Born in 1917, he is known in the scene as "Dizzy" because, alongside the inventors of bebop Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, he likes to play... more

John Lewis on piano, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Percy Heath on double bass and Connie Kay on percussion. "Integration " was the key word used by Lewis all his life to describe MJQ: finding a balance... more

In the whole treasure trove of recordings from six decades of Jazz at NDR, this one stands out in particular, because it is one of the first in the series of concerts recorded outside of the... more