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American Robben Ford started out playing jazz saxophone because he admired Paul Desmond. But he soon swapped this instrument for an electric guitar. A few years later, Musician magazine named him one of the 100 best guitarists of the 20th century. Big names in jazz, rock and pop, including Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Bob Dylan, asked him to join their bands.

with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band

The American guitar legend, sidekick to Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Bill Evans and Bob Dylan, in big band mode.

Robben Ford

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José James, the jazz artist of the hip-hop generation, plays an hour of mellow, calming tunes at the Mojo Club, a cult venue for Hamburg nightlife.

Hamburg Sessions

José James, the jazz artist of the hip-hop generation, plays an hour of music as hushed as a caress.

José James

Multi-instrumentalist Warren Wolf and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, conducted by Dary James Argue, present Grand Vibes. A number of tracks are taken from Warren Wolf's album History of the Vibraphone (2024), a fine demonstration of the eclecticism and virtuosity of this internationally acclaimed musician.

With the Frankfurt Radio Big Band

A concert by American vibraphonist Warren Wolf and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band conducted by Dary James Argue.

Warren Wolf: Grand Vibes

Swiss singer Stefanie Heinzmann is one of the few female talent show contestants in the country to have made a successful career as a musician and broken into the international music scene. Her first album Masterplan, released in 2008, went gold. She has performed frequently, worked in the studio with the famous pop singer Lionel Richie and received a host of awards, including the prestigious German music prize ECHO.

Pop, dance and RnB in a big band version!

Stefanie Heinzmann: Pop Goes Big!

Highlights from Hamburg's Elbjazz Festival 2021, a 100% digital edition: American soul diva China Moses, Swedish trombonist and singer Nils Landgren, Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, gospel-influenced group Michelle David & The True-tones, quartet Masaa, electro-rock jazz band The Notwist and Finnish trumpet player Verneri Pohjola.

China Moses | Nils Landgren | Salvador Sobral & Co 

Highlights from Hamburg's Elbjazz Festival 2021

Elbjazz Festival 2021: Highlights

For Brad Mehldau's performance in Lorraine for the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival, the piano virtuoso is accompanied by a double bassist and a drummer. A high-flying concert!

Nancy Jazz Pulsation 2024

One of today's greatest jazz pianists on stage at the Opéra de Nancy.

Brad Mehldau Trio

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From the legacy of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone to today's up-and-coming scene, unique voices have stood out through the ages. Discover some of them in concerts at festivals and unusual venues, in a variety of languages, that promise to delight your ears as well as your eyes.

Highlighting jazz voices through a repertoire rich in timeless standards and little-known nuggets.

Vocal Jazz

For its 45th edition, the Leverkusen Jazz Festival remains true to the open-mindedness and eclecticism it has embraced since the mid-90s. From the 3rd to the 12th November 2024, the festival showcases not only jazz, but also funk, soul, blues, Latin music, rock, hip hop and electro.

This German festival features jazz, but also funk, soul, blues, Latin music, rock, hip hop and electro.

Leverkusener Jazztage

In July, the small island paradise of Porquerolles becomes the ideal place to enjoy some splendid jazz. Every year, the open-air festival brings together an exquisite selection of jazz players from all over the world.

The small paradise island of Porquerolles is the ideal place to enjoy some splendid jazz.

Jazz à Porquerolles

Every spring, Jazz sous les Pommiers returns to Coutances for a week full of swing and eclecticism. It's an event that makes the core of the apple-producing French region of Normandy vibrate to the rhythm of the jazz of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Jazz sous les Pommiers brings jazz to the core of the apple-producing French region of Normandy.

Jazz sous les Pommiers

From the banks of the river Elbe in Hamburg, Elbjazz has built a reputation on its eclectic lineup, bringing together artists across the jazz spectrum from blues to pop. That approach has seen it become one of Europe's most popular jazz festivals, each year bringing established artists together with up and coming acts in a breezy, cosmopolitan atmosphere. 

Elbjazz returns to Hamburg for what has become one of Europes most popular jazz festivals.

Elbjazz Festival

Cosmo Jazz continues to take jazz sounds to new heights. Held every summer in Chamonix, this festival brings together the cream of contemporary jazz in an unusual setting: the majestic Alps. Open-air concerts set against a breathtaking backdrop.

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Elbjazz Festival 2021 -Highlights

Highlights from Hamburg's Elbjazz Festival 2021, a 100% digital edition:

China Moses, Nils Landgren, Salvador Sobral & Co

Amie Blu's music is deliciously introspective. Her style lends itself wonderfully to the session format, as this sequence filmed at the ESNS festival proves.

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The calming voice of Amie Blu in an intimate session.

Amie Blu

Norwegian singer HILLARI performs a session alongside her concert at the ESNS festival. A unique opportunity to discover the soul and jazz sounds of her EP How is your soul? 

An intimate session to plunge into the soul world of HILLARI.

HILLARI

NNAVY puts Switzerland on the map of European neo-soul. Thanks to the warm, intimate melodies of her EP CLOSER, the young singer has cast a spell over the ESNS festival.

The ESNS festival is rocked by the neo-soul of Swiss diva NNAVY.

NNAVY

Fancy a trip to Laurent Bardainne's Eden Beach Club? Perfect, because the jazz saxophonist is here to introduce us to his fourth collaboration with Tigre d'Eau Douce for Journeys Through Music.

Journeys Through Music

Saxophonist Laurent Bardainne invites Journeys Through Music to his Eden Beach Club.

Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d’Eau Douce

Cécile McLorin Salvant has been described as ‘the heiress of Billie Holiday’. When she sings, it's as if time and space disappear, with a modern-day voice reviving the soul of ‘Lady Day’. Winning award after award, this Franco-American singer is now one of the leading figures in jazz today.

Leverkusener Jazztage 2024

A singer who has won three Grammy Awards and whose critics are full of praise for what they describe as a 'jewel.'

Cécile McLorin Salvant

‘I'm Not The One’, a track by the fusion band Snarky Puppy featuring Malika Tirolien, has generated over two million views on YouTube. The singer delivers an electric, passionate and exciting performance. But it would be wrong to reduce her to this collaboration: Solo or with her band, the musician has her own distinctive style.

This Guadeloupean artist plays a skilful blend of soul, hip hop, RnB and jazz that she describes as ‘highsoul’.

Malika Tirolien

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollnyse perform as a duo at the Leipzig Opera. 
Their first four-handed encounter was back in 2008 and resulted in the album Piano Works IX: Live At SchlossElmau. Fifteen years later in 2023, a new opus entitled DUO, also recorded live, sealed the reunion of these two giants of European jazz piano. The specialist press in Germany were gushing in their praise, calling it ‘the concert of the century’.

Liepzig Jazz Days 2024

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny at Leipzig Jazz Days 2024: a pair of jazz giants for a four-handed double piano duet.

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny

Double bassist, singer, composer and arranger Avishai Cohen is renowned for his virtuoso playing and emotional live performances. And he's unrivalled at finding the musicians who have the potential to take over from the jazz greats.

This Israeli double bassist boldly intertwines modern jazz with traditions from the Levant, here playing in a trio.

Avishai Cohen Trio

They've known each other for over 20 years and have been making music together for around 15. Nils Wülker and Arne Jansen are constantly reinventing the space in which their musical ideas flourish.

Instrumental jazz from Germany with two ECHO Jazz Prize winners.

Nils Wülker & Arne Jansen

Tom Gaebel, with his smart suit, polished shoes and perfect hair, is the German gentleman of swing. As a tribute to his master, Frank Sinatra, he performs with the WDR symphony orchestra, playing all the Sinatra classics including My Way, Strangers in the Night and New York, New York.

100 Years of Frank Sinatra

Frank Cassenti, creator of Jazz à Porquerolles, passed away in December 2023. To pay tribute to him, the festival invites a top-flight line-up to the Var: With Naissam Jalal, Nguyên Lê, Marion Rampal and more.

Jazz à Porquerolles 2024

A four-star cast pays tribute to Frank Cassenti, creator of the Jazz à Porquerolles festival.

Tribute to Frank Cassenti

Now based in Munich, the Mongolian-born singer combines the grace of vocal jazz with chamber folk and urtiin duu, the traditional music of her Central Asian homeland known for its endless steppes. Influenced by the great voices of American jazz, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae, Enji's voice is at once warm and graceful, discreet and assured.

Reeperbahn Festival 2024

Enji demonstrates it better than anyone: Cultural diversity opens the way to exceptional creativity.

Enji

Flutist, vocalist and composer Naïssam Jalal invites Jazz sous les Pommiers to join her for the beguiling mixture of jazz and the musical traditions of North India in her Landscapes of Eternity project.

Jazz sous les Pommiers 2024

Musician Naïssam Jalal presents her Landscapes of Eternity project at Jazz sous les Pommiers.

Naïssam Jalal

At Jazz sous les Pommiers, pianist André Manoukian pays musical tribute to his grandmother. The concert features his quartet, singer Dafné Kritharas and the Balkanes choir.

André Manoukian presents his intimate Anouch project at Jazz sous les Pommiers.

André Manoukian 4tet, Balkanes and Dafné Kritharas

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ALA.NI, Patrice, Celeste, Kareen Guiock Thuram, Kham Meslien and Youn Sun Nah celebrate the legacy of Nina Simone at the Pantheon in Paris. Six artists, six emotional perspectives on the work of this timeless artist.

Resonances at the Paris Pantheon

Six contemporary artists celebrate the legacy of Nina Simone.

Nina Simone

What did the record companies do to push jazz legend Nina Simone to attempted murder?

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Sandra Nkaké is a guest at Jazz à Porquerolles. The Franco-Cameroonian singer is taking advantage of this island concert to introduce us to her album Scars.

Sandra Nkaké presents her album Scars at Jazz à Porquerolles.

Sandra Nkaké

Guillaume Poncelet unleashes all the emotional power of his neo-classical piano compositions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. A superb introduction to his album Durango.

Piano Day 2024

Guillaume Poncelet's neoclassical notes bring enchantment to ARTE Concert's Piano Day.

Guillaume Poncelet

Immersed in music from an early age, Judith Hill's work blends soul, R&B and funk. Her sincere and fragile creations prove just how much courage and strength it takes for women to make their mark in the male-dominated music industry.

Elbjazz Festival 2024

A Grammy Award-winning soul star with touchingly authentic lyrics.

Judith Hill

After years living in France, Chilly Gonzales has rustled up a whole album in hommage to chanson française. The versatile Canadian pianist demonstrates his admiration for the form onstage at the ARTE Concert Festival. 

ARTE Concert Festival 2023

The versatile pianist declares his love for chanson françaises onstage at the ARTE Concert festival.

Chilly Gonzales

Polish festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa pays tribute to the symphonic legacy of Wayne Shorter, led by multi-instrumentalist esperanza spalding. A concert featuring ssperanza spalding's quartet, conductor Clark Rundell and the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023

Multi-instrumentalist esperanza spalding pays tribute to Wayne Shorter at the Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa festival.

esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter

Marion Rampal plays the bird of paradise at Jazz sous les Pommiers. In Coutances, the singer introduces us to Oizel, an album in which avian creatures take the lion's share.

Marion Rampal presents her album Oizel to the Jazz sous les Pommiers audience.

Marion Rampal

The internationally renowned bassist, singer and composer Avishai Cohen performs in an exclusive concert from the Maillon theatre in Strasbourg. Accompanied by drummer Roni Kaspi and pianist Elchin Shirinov, the jazzman presents his forthcoming album Shifting Sands.

Private Session at the Maillon Theatre, Strasbourg

IThe internationally renowned bassist, singer and composer Avishai Cohen performs from his forthcoming album Shifting Sands.

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On 1 March 2020, the Polish city of Katowice would become the epicentre of the jazz world for a few brief moments. Why? A special concert by two giants of contemporary jazz: Ron Carter and Richard Galliano. An exceptional duet to be heard here again and again.

Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa

Two jazz generations united on one stage. Ron Carter and Richard Galliano at the Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa.

Richard Galliano and Ron Carter

An exclusive date in Poland for Ron Carter, who is joined here by Rene Rosnes on piano, Jimmy Greene on tenor saxophone and Payton Crossley on drums. Together, the four artists make up the Ron Carter New Foursight Quartet, and it's the first time they've played together in front of a camera.

Ron Carter New Foursight Quartet pays tribute to Miles Davis at the Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa.

Ron Carter New Foursight Quartet

Fifty years in the music business is a cause for celebration, so Richard Galliano is inviting you to Poland for his jubilee to the Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa festival. The jazzman will be joined by the Polish National Radio Orchestra to perform a Piazzolla concerto, followed by one of his own creations.

After half a century on the jazz scene, Richard Galliano celebrates a beautiful jubilee in Poland.

Richard Galliano and the National Orchestra of the Polish Radio

Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa is packing his bags for Jazz sous les Pommiers! A made-in-Normandy performance enhanced by the presence of harmonica star Grégoire Maret.

Harold López-Nussa takes the Jazz sous les Pommiers festival to Cuba.

Harold López-Nussa

Fred Pallem leads a four-star cast for New'Garo at Jazz sous les Pommiers. A fitting tribute to poet and musician Claude Nougaro, who died in 2004.

A four-star cast pays tribute to the great Claude Nougaro.

New'Garo

In keeping with the city of Hamburg's spirit of openness, The Bridge project fuses musical currents from several countries. For this perfromance, the NDR big band joins forces with Lenine, the multi-award-winning Brazilian singer-songwriter, for arrangements by Martin Fondse that transcend genres and blend elements of jazz, classical music and pop.

The Bridge: a project that builds a connection between Brazilian music, jazz and other musical trends.

NDR Bigband feat. Lenine & Martin Fondse: The Bridge

Moses Yoofee (piano), Roman Klobe-Barangă (bass) and Noah Fürbringer (percussion) are revitalising the jazz scene across the Rhine. The trio's explosive sound blends hip-hop, jazz, soul and R&B.

Relaxed fun combined with rhythmic fireworks.

Moses Yoofee Trio

Rocket Men are masters of the art of captivating audiences by propelling them into a rousing, hard-hitting universe that the musicians have dubbed 'Drum and Space'. The six artists, from Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig, have forged a unique, cosmic style, infused with pop and jazz accents and powerful technobeats.

An intergalactic fusion of jazz and rock.

Rocket Men

Shake Stew's powerful, telluric tunes make you want to sway to the beat, and invite you to let go into a trance-like state. The Austrian band captivate audiences with their blend of driving African percussion rhythms and heady brass melodies.

Mystical sounds blending jazz, groove and hypnotic Afrobeats.

Shake Stew

Senegal's Alune Wade is open to musical genres and all possible fusions. This virtuoso bassist, singer and composer has succeeded in blending genres ranging from Afrobeat to jazz. An immersive concert of sounds that seem both exotic and familiar.

Superb Afrobeat punctuated by groovy bass lines.

Alune Wade

Based in Toronto, experimental combo BadBadNotGood blends seventies soul jazz, futuristic hip-hop and electronica to create a sound as exciting as it is unique. In the early 2010s, the group made a name for itself with improbable cover versions of hip-hop tracks by the likes of Odd Future and MF Doom in a jazz style. An innovative set at Elbjazz 2024 from these soundscape pioneers.

This is where 70s soul jazz meets hip-hop and electronica.