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"

The Headhunters live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008

Devin Phillips - Saxophones

Jerry Z - Keyboards
Richie Goods - Bass
Mike Clark - Drums
Bill Summers - Percussion

recorded live at Jazzclub Quasimodo, Jazzfest Berlin, November 8, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Watermelon Man
2.Loft Funk
3. Butterfly
4. A Love Supreme/ Resolution
5. Sly

There could have been a reunion of the old line-up in Berlin 2008, Bennie Maupin played the night before on the same stage, and Herbie Hancock at the same time at the Berlin Festival Hall.

Heinz Sauer – Bob Degen live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008

Heinz Sauer – tenor sax
Bob Degen – piano

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin, UdK Konzertsaal Bundesallee [Joseph-Joachim-Konzertsaal], November 9, 2008 aus dem Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Tracklist:
1. Stay on C
2. Worth a Week’s Anguish
3. Etosha
4. Kieser’s Exchange
5. Welcome to what you think to hear
6. Don’t explain
7. Sages
8. Fading Day

Saxophone player Heinz Sauer and pianist Bob Degen rank among Europe’s jazz upper nobility. Since 1973, Degen is a member of the jazz ensemble of Frankfurt/Main radio station “hr” where he first met Heinz Sauer. Six years later they decided to form a permanent duo. After more than thirty years they still sound spontaneous, inspired and inspiring; serve up gourmet jazz for epicures who – in the era of the quick mouse click – still prefer an atmosphere of timeless beauty.
Together they released a few albums, among them "Plaza Lost and Found":

Rebekka Bakken & Wolfgang Muthspiel at Leipziger Jazztage 2002

Rebekka Bakken, vocals

Wolfgang Muthspiel, guitar

recorded live at Leipziger Jazztage, Leipzig, Germany, September 28, 2002

Tracklist:
1. Beloved
2. You
3. Overmåde

You can find these songs on the fine studio album "Beloved", released on Wolfgang´s Material records

Wolfgang Muthspiel & Triology live in Bremen 2003

Wolfgang Muthspiel, guitar

Daisy Jopling, violin
Aleksey Igudesman, violin
Tristan Schulze, cello

recorded live in Bremen 2003

Tracklist:
01 Swords
02 Tribal Games
03 That´s All Daisy Needs
04 This Space Leo Gives
05 Ornithology/ How High The Moon
06 Ambassador

This quartet released a studio album called "That´s All Daisy Needs" released on Material Records

Weather Report live at Rockpalast Köln 1983

Wayne Shorter - tenor & soprano saxophones

Joe Zawinul - keyboards
Victor Bailey - bass
Omar Hakim - drums
Jose Rossy - percussion

recorded live Sartory Säle, Köln, Germany, May 13, 1983

Tracklist:
01 Procession
02 Fast City
03 The Peasant (a.k.a. Singapore)
04 Db Waltz
05 Blue Sound - Note 3 (Ballad)
06 Two Lines
07 Plaza Real
08 Medley
09 The Well
10 Where The Moon Goes

The post-Jaco edition of the greatest fusion band ever with the power house rhythm section featuring Victor Bailey and Omar Hakim. More info on this concert

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":