Terell Stafford Quintet feat. Mulgrew Miller live at JazzBaltica 2006

Terell Stafford - Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Tim Warfield - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Martin Wind - Bass
Matt Wilson - Drums
Mulgrew Miller - Piano

recorded live at JazzBaltica, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, July 2, 2006

Tracks
1. Off The Marc
2. Taking A Chance On Love
3. The Touch Of Your Lips
4. Blues For JT
5. Old Folks
6. He Knows How Much We Can Bear
7. Shake It For Me

"Terell Stafford plays the trumpet with remarkable technique, a great sense of melody and swing, and a lot of heart — a combination that makes him stand out on today's scene and a reason it's easy to find him performing with people like Cedar Walton, the Clayton Brothers, Kenny Barron, Matt Wilson, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band and the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra when he's not fronting his own band on gigs" (R.J. DeLuke). In 2007 he released a live recording called "Taking Chances" on Max Jazz Records.

U-Street All Stars – Something New, Something Old live at JazzBaltica 2003

Markus Holkko – as
Timo Lassy – ts, bcl
Teemu Viinikainen – g
Timo Tuppurainen – b
Jussi Lehtonen – dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, July 5, 2003

Tracks
1. Super Treat
2. Surma-Travels
3. This Time
4. Expander
5. Preach
6. Dance Hall

U-Street All Stars is a Finnish band founded in the fall of 2000. The letter U in their band name comes from the fact that they rehearse in a Street called Uudenmaankatu in Helsinki. They won some prizes, e.g. at the Jazzfestival Gexto (Spain), the international Jazz-Hoeilaart (Belgium) and at the Pori-Festival (Finland).They have released two albums on Blue Note Records, the first one called "Helsinki Sessions" (2002).

Kenny Barron Trio live at JazzBaltica 2006

Kenny Barron - p
Kiyoshi Kitagawa - b
Victor Lewis - dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, July 2, 2006

Tracks
1. And Then Again
2. Marie Laveau
3. The Very Thought Of You
4. New York Attitude
5. Song For Abdullah
6. Beautiful Love
7. Lullaby
8. Getting Sentimental Over You

Kenny Barron, the typical musician´s musician, is one of the best - and the most underrated- piano players in modern jazz history. Best known as the duo partner of Stan Getz, he is heard here leading his own great trio with Japanese bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and victor Lewis on drums. In 2008 he released a true masterwork called "The Traveler" on Emarcy.

JazzBaltica Ensemble 2007 dir. by Steven Bernstein

Steven Bernstein - cond., slide tp

Axel Schlosser - tp
Nils Landgren - tb
Karl-Martin Almqvist - ts
Jukka Perko - as
Marcin Wasilewski - p
Lars Danielsson - b
Christopher Dell - vib
Wolfgang Haffner - dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 28, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Happy Hour Blues
2. Cod 21
3. Interview
4. New Viper Dance
5. HSJ
6. We Are MTO/ Harlem

The ‘core cell’ of JazzBaltica, the JazzBaltica Ensemble, has been getting together every year. This small ‘big band’, which is always made up of different artists, includes top-flight musicians from Scandinavia, Germany and the Baltic regions, with names such as Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, Marcin Wasilewski, Axel Schlosser, Wolfgang Haffner and Jukka Perko. Their mission is to develop special programmes for the ‘Festival of Baltic Jazz’. In 2007 the Enesemble was directed by the ubiquitious trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein, best known for his work with John Lurie´s Lounge Lizards and his own band Sex Mob.

Jason Moran Bandwagon live at JazzBaltica 2004

Jason Moran - Piano
Tarus Mateen - Bass
Nasheet Waits - Drums

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau July 3, 2004

1. You´ve Got To Be Modernistic
2. Intermezzo Op.118, No.2 (Johannes Brahms)
3. Jump Up
4. Kinda Dukish/ Body & Soul
5. Ringing My Phone
6. Out Front
7. Planet Rock
8. Fire Waltz/ Infospace

Jason Moran debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, he has garnered much critical acclaim and won a number of awards for his playing and compositional skills, which combine elements of stride piano, avant-garde jazz, classical music (cf. the beautiful Brahms Intermezzo), hip hop, and spoken word, among others. The Down Beat critics poll voted him Rising Star Jazz Artist, Rising Star Pianist, and Rising Star Composer for three years straight (2003-2005). In 2005, Moran was also named Playboy magazine's first "Jazz Artist of the Year". The Bandwagon released in 2003 a live trio album, recorded at New York's Village Vanguard, called "The Bandwagon: Live at the Village Vanguard"