Palle Danielsson Quartet at JazzBaltica 2001

Palle Danielsson, bass

Joakim Milder, tenor and soprano saxophones

Rita Marcotulli, piano
Anders Kjellberg, drums

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2001, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, June 26, 2001

Tracklist:
1. Tiramisu
2. For You Peter
3. Mars
4. Obscure Motifs
5. Siri

Palle Danielsson is undoubtedly the internationally best-known bassist from Sweden.
Besides his break through with Bill Evans at the jazz club "The Golden Circle" in Stockholm 1965, he was a member of Keith Jarrett's "European quartet" and laid the foundation for a worldwide reputation as a tasteful player with rock-steady time. This is a reputation he has built upon and refined with equal parts calmness, good judgment and talent. In 1995 he released his album "Contra Post" with this quartet (the album is out of print, but maybe you can find it somewhere...)

geir lysne ensemble "the grieg code" live at NDR Hamburg 2009

Morten Halle (sax, fl) Tore Brunborg (sax, fl) Geir Lysne (arr, sax, fl) Steffen Schorn (bs, cl, fl), Eckhard Baur (tp, flh, voc) Jesper Riis (tp, flh, lyrics) Arkady Shilkloper (french horn, flh) Helge Sunde (tb) Lars A. Haug (tu) Vladyslav Sendecki (kb, electronics) Bjørn Kjellemyr (b) Andreas Bye (dr) Terje Isungset (perc, mouth harp, voice)

recorded live at Studio Rolf Liebermann, NDR, Hamburg Germany, April 16, 2009

1. Transad Nias
2. Vebburedong
3. Glossi Vangse
4. Dose Das

The Edvard Grieg Society commissioned Lysne to write The Grieg Code for their congress in Grieg’s birthplace, Bergen, Norway. Lysne had already paid homage on Boahjenásti with his composition “GeirG” (Grieg spelled backwards, the first four letters being Lysne’s first name). The piece is a re-fashioning of the theme from the movement “The Death Of Ase” in Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Suite No. 1.

Lysne emphasizes that the pieces in The Grieg Code are not jazz versions of Grieg’s compositions. He employs set piano, string, and vocal pieces from Grieg within his own compositions, but he re-works them to the point that they are unrecognisable. Lysne transforms a soprano canto line into a cool bass line, and a violin phrase becomes a drum groove. Lysne calls this procedure "musical anagrams". An anagram is normally a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase (Listen = Silent).
The studio album with this program was released on ACT:

Dave Douglas: Blue Nile - the Music of Randy Weston live at JazzBaltica 2007

Dave Douglas - Trumpet

Donny McCaslin - Tenor Saxophone
Nils Wogram - Trombone
Martin Taxt - Tuba
Geoffrey Keezer - Piano
Nasheet Waits - Drums
Jan Bang - Samples

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2007, Große Konzertscheune Salzau, Germany

Tracklist:
1. The Shrine
2. Mystery Of Love
3. Zulu
4. The Call
5. African Cookbook
6. Prayer Blues
7. Afro Black

Dave Douglas has an amazing output on records. The discography can be found here.

SF Jazz Collective live at Jazzbaltica 2007

SF Jazz Collective

Miguel Zenón (f, as)
Joe Lovano (ts)
Dave Douglas (t)
André Hayward (tb)
Stefon Harris (vib)
Renee Rosnes (p)
Matt Penman (b)
Eric Harland (d)

recorded live at Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, July 1, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk) / arr: Renee Rosnes
2. San Francisco Holiday [aka Worry Later] (Thelonious Monk) / arr: Miguel Zenón
3. Criss Cross (Thelonious Monk) / arr: Dave Douglas
4. Haast Pass (Matt Penman)
5. Oska T. (Thelonious Monk) / arr: Renee Rosnes
6. Alcatraz (Dave Douglas)/ Amoeba (Dave Douglas)
7. Assisi (Dave Douglas)
8. Peace Offering (André Hayward)
9. Union (Eric Harland)

In 2007 the SF Jazz Collective did its 4th annual concert tour, featuring a repertoire including the work of Thelonious Monk and original compositions by group members. As always they released a very hard to find record, due to its limited edition (3000 copies only!!).

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra live at Studio 2/Munich 2009

Daniel Glatzel (composition, tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet)
Oliver Roth (flute)
Laure Mourot (flute, piccolo flute, alto flute)
Sebastian Hägele (bassoon)
Johannes Schleiermacher (bariton sax, tenor sax)
Aki Sebastian Ruhl (trumpet, flügelhorn)
Magnus Schriefl (trumpet, flügelhorn))
Gerhard Gschlössl (trombone, sousaphone)
Karl Ivar Refseth (vibraphone)
Anna Viechtl (harp)
Kalle Zeier (guitar)
Andi Waelti (bass)
Andi Haberl (drums)
Matthew Lonson (violin)
Josa Gerhard (violin)
Mokkapan Phongphit (violin)
Johannes Pennetzdorfer (viola)
Martin Stupka (viola)
Charlotte Jacke (cello)
Isabelle Klemt (cello)

recorded live at Studio 2, Bavarian Broadcast Munich, May 20, 2009

Tracklist:
1. Gamma Pluto Delta (Daniel Glatzel)
2. Introduction to Asteroids
3. Asteroids(Daniel Glatzel)
4. Space Purolator (Daniel Glatzel)
5. Introduction to Radioactive People
6. Radioactive People (Daniel Glatzel)
7. Lava Lovers (Daniel Glatzel)

Music from another star. Something... well, let´s say, different... This orchestra is a really interesting upcoming ensemble from the Berlin jazz scene, that will perform at this year´s JazzBaltica. "Whoever claims to have heard anything like this before must be lying. The twenty-piece ANDROMEDA MEGA EXPRESS ORCHESTRA, led by 25-year-old Berlin based composer Daniel Glatzel, set off a firework of energy, musicality and fresh ideas and juggle genres, styles and musical references in a way that can make you dizzy. Jazz doesn't begin to describe it. We're talking about everything from minimalism to film scores, romanticism, modern classical music, and Bartok right through to Frank Zappa. Glatzel also cites computer games, the Second Viennese School, cartoons, Renaissance Polyphony, shabby infomercials and elevators in expensive hotels as influences." Look out for their first record called "Take Off":

Stefano di Battista, Vince Mendoza & SH Chamber Orchestra at JazzBaltica 2004

Stefano di Battista - Alto Saxophone

Eric Legnini - Piano
Rosario Bonaccorso - Bass
Roberto Gatto - Drums
Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Orchestra
Vince Mendoza - Leader

recorded live July 3, 2004 at JazzBaltica 2004, Salzau, Germany

Tracklist
1. Classico
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Anastasia
4. A Night In Tunisia
5. Amoroso
6. Slap

Look out for Stefano´s album "Round About Roma" feat. Vince Mendoza, released on Blue Note.

Hank Jones & Joe Lovano "Kids" live at JazzBaltica 2008

Hank Jones, piano

Joe Lovano, tenor sax

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2008, Salzau, Germany, July 5, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Lady Luck
2. Ornithology
3. Kids Are Pretty People
4. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
5. In A Sentimental Mood
6. Oh! Look At Me Now!
7. Six And Four
8. Interview with Hank Jones

Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and pianist Hank Jones make for a perfect combination on this set of live duets. They had played together on an occasional basis for the three years prior to this project, collaborating on the Joyous Encounter recording and in 2007 they released the Grammy nominated album "Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola" on Blue Note.
P.S. More photos from JazzBaltica by great photographer Oskar Henn you can find on www.oskar-henn.de

Bob Mintzer & WDR Big Band: The Way I Feel - live at Stadtgarten Köln 1990

Bob Mintzer – sax

Phil Markowitz – p

Lincoln Goines – b
John Riley – dr
WDR BIG BAND KÖLN

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Cologne/Germany, January 27, 1990

1. Mr. Funk
2. Happy Song
3. Introduction To The Ring
4. The Ring
5. Introduction To Paul’s Call
6. Paul’s Call
7. Lunatic
8. Introduction To The Way I Feel
9. The Way I Feel
10. Like A Child

Bob Mintzer released a whole bunch of big band recordings in the 80´s and 90´s on DMP, a.o. "Urban Contours":

S.M.V. - Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten live in Leipzig 2008

Stanley Clarke - electric bass
Marcus Miller - electric bass, bass clarinet
Victor Wooten - electric bass, acoustic bass
Federico Gonzales Peña - keyboards
Derico Watson - drums
recorded live at Leipziger Jazztage, October 4, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Maestros (Clarke)
2. Grits (Miller)
3. Tutu (Miller)
4. Schooldays (Clarke)

Of course these three giants of low frequencies released the studio album "Thunder" on HeadsUp

Avishai Cohen Trio live in Berlin 2008

Shai Maestro, Piano

Avishai Cohen, Bass, Vocals
Itamar Doari, Percussion

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin November 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Seattle
2. Umray
3. Yesh Li Gan
4. Eleven Wives
5. Structure In Emotion
6. Gently Disturbed
7. The Ever Evolving Etude
8. To The Bird
9. Shalom
10. Remembering

This is a re-post of this concert with two additional tracks featuring Avishai on vocals. Avishai released a great trio recording on Razdaz called "Gently Disturbed":

Bobo Stenson Trio live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008

Bobo Stenson, piano
Anders Jormin, double-bass
Jon Fält, drums

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin, November 8, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Polska Of Dispair (Traditional/ Jormin)
2. Seli (Jormin)
3. El Mayor (Silvio Rodriguez)
4. M (Jormin)
5. Don's Kora Song (Don Cherry)

Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it. Their latest effort on ECM is the 2008 album "Cantando":

Trio Patitucci-Rogers-Penn live Montréal-Frontenac 2005

John Patitucci - Acoustic & Electric Bass

Adam Rogers - Guitar
Clarence Penn - Drums

recorded live Montréal-Frontenac/Canada, October 18, 2005

Tracklist:
1. Evidence (Monk)
2. Up with the lark (Kern)
3. Jesus is on the main line (trad.)
4. Purpose (Rogers)
5. Here, there and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney)

John Patitucci latest album is called "Line by Line" and features - among others - Adam Rogers on guitar.

Andy Emler MegaOctet live in Berlin 2008

Andy Emler - piano, compositions and direction

Laurent Dehors - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, bagpipe
Thomas de Pourquery - alto and soprano saxophone
Philippe Sellam - alto and soprano saxophone
Laurent Blondiau - trumpet
François Thuillier - tuba
Claude Tchamitchian - doublebass
Eric Echampard - drums
François Verly - percussions

recorded live Festival Jazzdor Berlin, October 4, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Mail to Elise
2. Go Down Swimming
3. La Regamuse/Reouvertoire et Postlude
4. Introduction
5. Crouch, Touch, Engage

Through many line-up changes over the years, the MegaOctet, formed in 1989 and led by Andy Emler, has remained what André Francis once described as "a laboratory for some of the most beautiful, daring and inventive playing today". Too turbulent and festive to be just a miniature version of the conventional jazz big band, and too virtuosic and extravagant to merely provide high class musical entertainement, it continues to defy expectations.

2007 this band recorded "West in Peace", released on Nocturne:

Richard Galliano Quartet feat. Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Clarence Penn live in Mannheim 2008

Richard Galliano: accordion

Charlie Haden: bass
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano
Clarence Penn: drums

recorded live at Alte Feuerwache Mannheim, October 18, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Bonjour
2. Poème
3. Mister J
4. Love Day
5. Aurore
6. Laurita
7. Tango Pour Claude
8. Apple Pie
9. Hymne

Look out for "Love Day", an album Galliano, Rubalcaba and Haden recorded with Mino Cinelu:

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Red Earth" live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007

Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals

Ira Coleman, stand-up electric bass, musical director
Edsel Gomez, piano
Lansine Kouyate, balafon
Baba Sissoko, n'goni
Adama Diarra, djembe
Mamadou Cherif Soumano, kora, guitar
Kabine Kouyate, vocals
Assitan Kita, vocals
Minino Garay, drums, cajon, percussion

recorded live at Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany, July 12, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Afro Blue
2. Bani (Bad Spirits)
3. Footprints
4. Demissénw (Children Go Round)
5. Sakhodougou (The Griots)
6. Massane Cissè (Red Earth)
7. Compared To What

The material of this concert was recorded on Dee Dee´s really great album "Red Earth - A Malia Journey" released on DDB Records/ Emarcy: