Directions in Music live at Jazz Baltica 2002

Herbie Hancock, piano
Michael Brecker, tenor sax
Roy Hargrove, trumpet
George Mraz, bass
Willie Jones III, drums

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2002, Salzau, Germany, July 6, 2002

Tracklist:
1. The Sorcerer
2. Misstery
3. Naima
4. So What/ Impressions
5. D Trane
6. Transition
7. My Ship
8. Pinocchio

This concert was recorded after the release of the album "Directions in music", released on the Verve label. By the way there´s another great concert of this tour posted on the You Are What You Hear - Blog (Click Here) featuring the same lineup and a similar set list.

Stanley Clarke Band live at Stadtgarten Köln 2005

Stanley Clarke - Acoustic & Electric Basses

Mads Tolling - Violin
Ruslan Sirota - Piano, Keyboards
Charles Haynes - Drums

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, 8./9. Mai 2005

Tracklist
1. All blues (Davis)
2. Song for John (Clarke/Corea)
3. Lopsy Lu (Clarke)
4. Schooldays (Clarke)

Stefano Di Battista Group live at JazzBaltica 2008

Stefano Di Battista - Saxophone

Fabrizio Bosso - Trumpet
Baptiste Trotignon - Organ
Greg Hutchinson - Drums

recorded live at JazzBaltica, Salzau, Germany, July 6, 2008

Tracks:
1. Weather Or Not
2. Under Her Spell (Stupid Ballad)
3. The Serpent´s Charm (5/4)
4. I Will Love You
5. The Jody Grind
6. Essaouira

Go and get Stefano´s newest album "trouble shootin´"

JazzBaltica-Ensemble directed by Wolfgang Haffner JazzBaltica 2006

JazzBaltica-Ensemble directed by Wolfgang Haffner
JazzBaltica 2006

Wolfgang Haffner - Drums, Leader
Axel Schlosser - Trumpet
Nils Landgren - Trombone
Karl-Martin Almqvist - Tenor Saxophone
Jukka Perko - Alto Saxophone
Marcin Wasilewski - Piano
Sebastian Studnitzky - E-Piano, Trumpet
Lars Danielsson - Bass
Christopher Dell - Vibraphone
Biboul Darouiche - Percussion

Tracklist:
1. Faithless
2. Crusin
3. Shapes
4. Silent Way
5. 24 Hours
6. Some Other Time
7. Space Calzone

all tunes composed by Wolfgang Haffner
This is another live concert of the tunes known from Wolfgang´s great CD´s "Shapes" an "Acoustic Shapes" on the ACT Music Label:
Click Here

Joe Lovano "Sax Summit" feat. Ravi Coltrane & Dave Liebman live at JazzBaltica 2008

Joe Lovano – Tenor Saxophone
Ravi Coltrane – Tenor Saxophone
Dave Liebman – Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
Phil Markowitz – Piano
Cecil McBee – Bass
Billy Hart – Drums

recorded live at Jazz Baltica, Salzau, Germany, July 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Transitions (Markowitz)
2. Tricycle (Liebman)
3. The 13th Floor (Ravi Coltrane)
4. Seraphic Light/ Cosmos (John Coltrane)

Go and get the great studio album of this supergroup released on the Telarc label.

Ornette Coleman live at JazzBaltica 2008

Ornette Coleman - Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Violin
Joe Lovano - Tenor Saxophone
Al McDowell - Acoustic Bass
Tony Falanga - Electric Bass
Denardo Coleman - Drums

recorded live at Jazz Baltica, Salzau, July 6, 2008

Tracks:
1. Following The Sound
2. Jordan
3. 911
4. Call To Duty
5. Turnaround
6. Out of Order
7. Bach
8. Those That Know Before It Happens
9. Waiting For You
10. Song World
11. Song X
12. Lonely Woman

This is the first post of some concerts of this year´s JazzBaltica Festival, one of Germany´s greatest Jazz Festivals. Ornette playing some of his signature tunes with a great line up.

WDR Big Band feat Joe Zawinul Celebrating the Music of Weather Report

The WDR Big Band
Vince Mendoza, conductor, arranger
Joe Zawinul, keyboards (on Db Waltz)
Scott Kinsey, keyboards
Victor Bailey, bass
Peter Erskine, drums
Alex Acuña, percussion

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage, November 6, 2002

Tracklist:
1. Fast City
2. Night Passage
3. Carnavalito
4. Badia/ Boogie Woogie Waltz
5. Db Waltz

This very special event was the beginning of Zawinul´s collaboration with the WDR Big Band that lead to the great album "Brown Street".

The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2002

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Sabine Kabongo, vocals
Maria João, vocals

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2002, Germany, November, 2002

Tracklist:
1. East 12th Street Band
2. Zansa
3. Café Andalusia
4. Borges Buenos Aires

This edition of the Syndicate plays its own repertoire known from the albums "Faces & Places" and "Vienna Nights". BHM/ Bird Jam just released a new CD by Zawinul:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4WS8S4TV

The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2001

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, vocals
Lelo Nika, accordion
Otto Lechner, accordion

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2001, Germany, October 19, 2001

Tracklist:
1. Indescretions
2. Lelo Nika
3. Otto Lechner
4. Zansa II
5. Bimoya

This is a very special concert: Joe Zawinul revisiting his first instrument, the accordion he used to play - and prepare- during his childhood in Austria. In this concert he meets two true masters of the accordion: Lelo Nika from Serbia and his fellow Asutrian Otto Lechner.
The Zawinul Syndicate visited the North Sea Jazz Festival earlier the same year. I´ve got only one track of this concert, so I post it as a "bonus track". It´s "Borges Buenos Aires", feat. Joe Zawinul, keyboards, Maria João, vocals, Amit Chatterjee, guitar, Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals, Nathaniel Townsley, drums & Manolo Badrena, percussion.

The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 1999

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Gary Poulson, guitar
Victor Bailey, bass, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Karim Ziad, drums, vocals
Maria João, vocals

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 1999, Germany, October 21, 1999

Tracklist:
1. Madagascar (Zawinul)
2. Louange (Ziad)
3. Do You Know (Pastorius/ Bailey)/ Badia (Zawinul)
4. Bimoya (Zawinul)

There´s a lot of Weather Report in this edition of the Syndicate: The former Weather Reporters Badrena and Bailey, their renditions of Madagascar and Badia and Victor Bailey´s tribute to Jaco in his version of the Pastorius tune "Continuum" ("Do You Know").

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Stadtgarten Köln 1997

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Gary Poulson, guitar
Richard Bona, bass, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Germany,March 11, 1997

Tracklist:
1. Introduction to a Mighty Theme
2. Waraya
3. Erdäpfe Blues
4. Carnavalito/ In an Island Way
5. Slivovitz Trail
6. Indescretions

This is a classic Syndicate line up you can hear also on the great recording "World Tour" with the incredible tight rhythm section Bona, Sery and Badrena.

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Fabrik Hamburg 1996

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Richard Bona, bass, vocals
Mokhtar Samba, percussion, vocals
Abdou Mboup, drums

recorded live at Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany, November 16, 1996

Tracklist:
1. Introduction to a Mighty Theme
2. Waraya
3. Indescretions
4. Slivovitz Trail
5. Mi Gente

A quite short living edition of the Syndicate, this line up ist the most african I know playing the classic Syndicate repertoire on their own way...

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Stadtgarten Köln 1995

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Fareed Haque, guitar, sitar
Matthew Garrison, bass
Arto Tuncboyaciyan, percussion, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Germany, November 16, 1995

Tracklist:
1. Scarlet Woman (Zawinul/ Johnson)
2. Westafrican Traditional/ Armenian Traditional (Sery/Tuncboyaciyan)
3. Civilian Secret Police (Tuncboyaciyan/ Zawinul)
4. Introduction To a Mighty Theme
5. Waraya (S.Keita)
6. Doctor Honoris Causa (Zawinul)
7. Erdäpfe Blues (Zawinul)
8. Sultan (Orient Express) (Zawinul)

Zawinul calls this band an "Ausländerband" (band of aliens): Fareed Haque, the "sitar meister who practiced all his lifetime" is from Pakistan, Arto Tuncboyaciyan is from Armenia, Paco Sery from Ivory Coast, Matthew "Matteo" Garrison (the son of bass legend Jimmy Garrison) has an Italian mother and Zawinul himself is of course from Vienna...
This is the first concert of a Zawinul series I´ll post here...

Pat Metheny meets Jazz Baltica 2003

Pat Metheny, guitar
Michael Brecker, tenor saxophone
Nils Landgren, vocals, trombone
Esbjörn Svensson, piano
Lars Danielsson, bass
Wolfgang Haffner, drums

recorded live at Jazz Baltica, Salzau, July 2003

Tracklist:
1. This Masquerade
2. The Nearness of You
3. Don´t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
4. Fragile
5. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

6. Impressions

E.S.T. live at Jazz Baltica 2003 feat Pat Metheny

This is the Re-Post of this concert, since I now found the original broadcast from 2003 with the whole concert. This is my tribute to the late great Esbjörn Svensson. RIP.

Esbjörn Svensson Trio &

Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Orchestra (Cond. Jonas Dominik)

Jazzbaltica Salzau, recorded July 5, 2003

Esbjörn Svensson, piano
Dan Berglund, bass
Magnus Öström, drums
Pat Metheny, guitar
Nils Landgren, vocals

tracklist:
1. Definition Of A Dog
2. I Mean You
3. Round Midnight
4. When God Created The Coffeebreak
5. Pavane
6. Dodge The Dodo
7. Behind The Yashmark
8. Believed, Beleft, Below
9. Spunky Sprawl


More great music from EST on his great albums for ACT music