Vienna, Rome, Seoul... Iiro Rantala and Ulf Wakenius are musicians who travel the world, always on tour as leaders of their own projects. Each track of the album captures the mood of a different city. Rantala: “Every place is lifted by its music and is therefore unique. We've hunted down these specific sounds.”

Live concerts by the Michael Wollny Trio are always experiences to be treasured. These three ideally matched musicians never fail to find fascinating new directions for the music, or to take the listener by surprise. At the end of October 2015, when Wollny, Weber und Schaefer were setting off on a Karsten Jahnke JazzNights tour, taking in fourteen German cities, the respected German broadsheet the Süddeutsche Zeitung gleefully quipped: “Wollny's off on tour. Just get yourselves there. Awesome!” 

Michael Wollny: piano, Christian Weber: bass, Eric Schaefer: drums

The programme is the star at “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic”. The aim of the concert series, curated and produced by Siggi Loch, is to bring together different musicians in a way that has never been seen or heard before, with one thematic focus. On 13 February 2015, the eighth edition at the sold out Kammermusiksaal saw the spotlight focus on the accordion.

For their 5th album, German trumpeter Julian and pianist Roman Wasserfuhr are in Brooklyn. The rise of the Wasserfuhrs has been meteoric, and “Landed in Brooklyn“ documents another important stage of it.

 Viktoria Tolstoy: vocal, Jacob Karlzon: piano, keyboards, Krister Jonsson: guitars, Mattias Svensson: bass, Rasmus Kihlberg: drums, Nils Landgren: trombone, vocal, Magnus Lindgren: woodwinds

Marius Neset: tenor and soprano saxophones, Hanna Paulsberg: tenor saxophone, Peter Fuglsang: alta saxophone, flute, clarinet, Eirik Hegdal: baritone  and soprano saxophone, Eivind Lonning: trumpet, Erik Eilertsen: trumpet, Erik Johannesen: trombone, Daniel Herkesdal: tuba, Jovan Pavlovic: accordion, Espen Berg: piano, Petter Eldh: bass, Gard Nilssen: drums, percussion, vibraphone, marimba, Ingrid Neset: flute, piccolo