Nguyên Lê enlightens the Floyd’s repertoire – pure happiness – and enchants it with the collusion of the NDR Bigband and its brilliant soloists, deploying new sound-textures created by the uplifting orchestrations of Michael Gibbs. The arrangements here provide choice settings for inspired improvisations and also reveal other compositions which appear as natural extensions of the original opus.

"The Key", the debut album of the Mauritian pianist Jerry Léonide is the key to a whole world; to the music and joie de vivre of an island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Léonide translates the irresistible, bouncingly danceable, clearly African influenced grooves and light and breezy crystal-clear melodies of his homeland into the vocabulary of jazz.

Jerry Léonide: piano, Gino Chantoiseau: double bass, Jhonny Joseph: drums, percusion, Sylvain Gontard: flugelhorn, Vincent Le Quang: soprano sax, Woz Kaly: vocal, Benjamin Petit: alto sax, Linley Marthe: bass guitar, Fred Grenade: bass guitar, Christophe Chretien: percussion, Fannie Klein: vocal

A re-connection with a musical icon or tradition – it is often the way something new, maybe even game-changing emerges. That was the idea in curator/ producer’s Siggi Loch’s mind when he suggested to Magnus Lindgren that he might look at re-tracing the footsteps of Herbie Mann. “Stockholm Underground” is a homage to the one of the greats of the jazz flute, and to his legendary 1969 album “Memphis Underground”, listed by Rolling Stone in 2013 in the “100 Best Jazz Albums” of all time.

Jan Lundgren: piano, Mattias Svensson: bass, Claudia Bonfiglioli: violin, Daniela Bonfiglioli: violin, Karolina Weber Ekhdal: viola, Charlotta Weber Widestrom: cello