Axel Schlosser Quartett "Secrecy" live in Karlsruhe 2009

Axel Schlosser - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Julian Argüelles - Tenor Saxophone
Martin Sjöstedt - Bass
Jean Paul Höchstädter - Drums

recorded live at Jazzclub Karlsruhe, February 8, 2009

Tracklist:
1. Fox On Byres Road
2. Für Schiller
3. Dewayne's Brain
4. Touching The Moon

This band released recently a CD called "Secrecy". More information on Axel´s homepage:

Markus Stockhausen Group live at Leipziger Jazztage 2008

Markus Stockhausen - Trumpet, Electronics
Vladyslav Sendecki - Piano, el. Keyboards
Arild Andersen - Bass, Electronics
Patrice Héral - Drums, Percussions, Voice, Electronics

recorded live at Leipziger Jazztage, October 2, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Electric Treasures Eight Part I
2. Electric Treasures Eight Part II

This ensemble released a double album called "Electric Treasures" on Markus Stockhausen´s Aktivraum label:

Colin Vallon Trio live at Jazzfestival Cully 2007

Colin Vallon - Piano
Patrice Moret - Bass
Samuel Rohrer - Drums

recorded live at Jazzfestival Cully, Switzerland, March 23, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Trenke, todorke
2. Zombie
3. Le Paradis Perdu
4. Istanbul

This is another upcoming European piano trio from Switzerland. Check out their great CD "Ailleurs":

Wynton Marsalis & The Lincoln Center Orchestra live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007

Wynton Marsalis, Music Director, Trumpet
Ryan Kisor, Trumpet
Marcus Printup, Trumpet
Michael Rodriguez, Trumpet
Ted Nash, Alto and Tenor Saxes, Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute
Sherman Irby, Alto and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Clarinet
Walter Blanding, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Clarinet
Victor Goines, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Carl Maraghi, Baritone Sax
Chris Crenshaw, Trombone
Elliot Mason, Trombone
Vincent Gardner, Trombone
Dan Nimmer, Piano
Carlos Henriquez, Bass
Ali Jackson, Drums

recorded live at Pariser Platz during Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007, July 8, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Across The Track Blues
2. Happy Go Lucky Local
3. Take The "A" Train
4. The Sleeper
5. Peace
6. Dali
7. Picasso
8. Sanctified Blues

This one is especially for Señor Castillo (Listen to track 7!)! One of Wynton´s latest recording on Blue Note is called "From the Plantation to the Penitentiary":

Bootlegging bootlegs...

I´m quite annoyed about an entry I discovered yesterday. Obviously there are some (one?) guys downloading concerts from this blog and reposting it on their owns. I don´t care about that, I´m not the owner of this concerts, just created the mp3s by recording my old MCs and MDs to my hard drive. But this very guy complains in his blog about others, who "stole" the concerts from his blog without saying thank you.
I´m really concerned about the fact, that this other guy asks repeatedly for "donations" to "maintain his expensive rapidshare premium account", in other words he tries to make money out of the files you can download here for free. (And if you have any doubts about the source of these files, just compare the pub dates of the posts...).
Let me point it clearly: None of the concerts of this blog was downloaded somewhere else and reposted here. Of course, there are some concerts here that you can find in other blogs, too. That´s because we drew from the same sources by listening to and recording the same radio/ tv stations.

This blog is a complete non profit blog, I´m just a devoted jazz fan.
Enjoy the music and keep on grooving

UPDATE

P.S. If you want to make a donation, feel free to do so, e.g. for the National Marrow Donor Program or for the Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei DKMS (German Bone Marrow Donor Center), fight leucemia!

Splashgirl live at Punktfestival Kristiansand 2008

Splashgirl:
Andreas Stensland Løwe - Piano
Jo Berger Myhre - Bass
Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød - Drums
special guest:
Anders Hofstad Soras - Pedal Steel Guitar

recorded live at Punktfestival Kristiansand/Norway, September 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Cagepop
2. Headpiece
3. Jacob
4. Three Weeks In A Box
5. 4 is 3 is 2 are 1
6. Postludium I
7. Postludium II

"Splashgirl" are a really great Norwegian Jazz Trio with a great sense for repetitive patterns á la Steve Reich and an affinity for exploring smallest melodies somewhere between Brian Eno, Erik Satie and Morton Feldman. John Kelman wrote on www.allaboutjazz.com about this concert:

"Splashgirl was an exciting discovery and one of Punkt 08's best shows, ranking as the surprise of the year— and not just at the festival.

Featuring pianist Andreas Stensland Lowe, drummer Andreas Lonmo Knudsrod and bassist Jo Berger Myhre, the group was the ideal example of the remarkable maturity and creativity coming out of young Norwegian groups. With a sound that blended spare, near-ambient textures with majestic yet understated neoclassicism and outer-reaching but always captivating free improvisations, Splashgirl is a group that deserves a wider audience and, if it can get some proper exposure, no doubt will."

For more information visit their homepage, where you can get their latest CD "Doors.Keys":

Dave Douglas: Letters from America at JazzBaltica 2008

Dave Douglas (Trumpet, Composer)
Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet)
James Genus (Bass)
Clarence Penn (Drums)
Simon Nabatov (Piano)
NDR Big Band
Dieter Glawischnig (Conductor)

Tracklist:
Letters From America
1. The Presidents
2. Dehyphenated Americans
3. Campaign Trail
4. Perilous Times
5. Lone Wolf
6. Pyrrhic Apology
7. Sunrise Highway
8. Change The Change
9. Blockbuster

Johannes Enders and the JazzBaltica Ensemble 2008

Johannes Enders (Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Leader)
Axel Schlosser (Trumpet)
Karin Hammar (Trombone)
Nils Lyhne Løkkegard (Alto Saxophone)
Lutz Häfner (Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet)
Marcin Wasilewski (Piano)
Eva Kruse (Bass)
Michal Miskiewicz (Drums)
On track 4:
Hank Jones (Piano)
Matt Wilson (Drums)

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2008, Salzau, Germany, July 4, 2008

Tracklist:
The Jones Suite (Johannes Enders)
1. Part I: Elvin
2. Part II: Hank
3. Part III: Thad

4. We Are All Together (Hank Jones)
5. Beginner´s Mind (Johannes Enders)
6. Unknown Trails (Johannes Enders)

Ahmad Jamal Trio live in Germany 1999

Ahmad Jamal, piano

James Cammack, bass
James Johnson, drums

recorded live at Jazzfestival Viersen/ Jazzweek Burghausen, Germany 1999

Tracklist:
1. Bellows
2. Acorn
3. Then I´ll Be Tired of You
4. High Fly
5. The Tube
6. Mystifying
7. Spanish Interlude
8. Sun Lililand
9. Ultraviolet

In 1998 Jamal released the great album "Nature" on Atlantic:

Brad Mehldau Trio live at Estival Jazz Lugano 1999

Brad Mehldau, piano
Jorge Rossy, drums
Darek Oleszkiewicz, bass

recorded live at Estival Jazz, Lugano, Switzerland 1999

Tracklist:
1. Sehnsucht
2. All The Things You Are

This tour was accompanied by the release of "Vol.4" of the "Art of the Trio"-series on Warner. Larry Grenadier was busy this summer, playing with Pat Metheny, so "Oles" filled in.

Tim Hagans and the JazzBaltica Ensemble 2000

JazzBaltica Ensemble dir. by Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans – cond, tp, flh
Jukka Perko – ss, as
Vytautas Labutis – ss, as
Peter Weniger – ss, ts, fl
Per Goldschmidt – bs
Lars Lindgren – tp
Tomasz Stanko – tp
Robert Majewski – tp
Nils Landgren – tb
Sebastian Hoffmann – tb
Vladislav Sendecki – p
Lars Danielsson – b
Lisbeth Diers – perc
Anders Kjellberg – dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 10, 2000

Tracklist:
1. No Words
2. Garage Band
3. Shorts
4. Lost In My Suitcase
5. Drum Row
6. From The Neck Down

Tim Hagans did some realy great Big Band recordings with the Swedish Norbotten Big Band, e.g. my favourite Big Band record "FUTURE MILES" on ACT Music:

Peter Weniger Project at JazzBaltica 2000

Peter Weniger – reeds
Lars Danielsson – b
Jukkis Uotila – dr
Tim Hagans – tp
Conrad Herwig – tb

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 10, 2000

Tracklist:
1. People´s Case
2. Love Song
3. Scrootch
4. Space Dozen
5. Antonin

Peter Weniger released about ten records, the latest called "Sing Yourself A Dream":

Martial Solal Trio live at Münchner Klaviersommer 1999

Martial Solal, piano
François Moutin, bass
Louis Moutin, drums

recorded live at Münchner Klaviersommer 1999

Tracklist:
1. `Round Midnight
2. A Night In Tunisia
3. Tea For Two
4. Summertime
5. Aigue Marine
6. Zig Zag
7. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise

Martial Solal recently released a new trio recording with the Moutin twins called "Longitude":

Bobo Stenson Trio live in Karlsruhe 2001

Bobo Stenson, piano
Anders Jormin, bass
Billy Hart, drums

recorded live at Jazzclub Yubetz, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 7, 2001

Tracklist:
1. Simple & Sweet
2. Living My Life
3. Melancholia

Bobo Stenson did some Trio recordings for ECM, among others the double album "Serenity" with Jon Christensen on drums:

Michael Portal Quintet live at Schloss Elmau 2001

Michel Portal, bass clarinet, clarinet, bandoneon
Flavio Boltro, trumpet
Bojan Zulfikarpasic, piano
Linley Marthe, bass
Laurent Robin, drums

recorded live at Schloss Elmau, Germany, October 31, 2001

Tracklist:
1. Barouf
2. Solitudes
3. Voyage
4. Domimonk

Michel Portal recorded some of these tracks with an american all star line up for his album "Dockings", released on Label Blue, a record quite hard to find...