Schlumpf / Krypton Quartet / Smythe - Summer Circle - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the history of Jazz there is several legendary groups with this instrumentation- saxophone, bass and drums are an open, creative, and flexible great fun to play in, and exciting to listen to! It can carry out the music just like a big constellation, but the field is more open for the musicians' musical excursions. This group started with a spontaneous gig in Stockholm. Hans, Oscar and Magnus met at Jazz Club Glenn Miller Café, and almost immediately they found the sound of the group and a natural interplay! Hans Backenroth is one of today's foremost bassists and musicians, and during the last decades he has played all over the world with many top jazz musicians. He was a longtime member of legendary Swedish groups led by Arne Domnerus, Putte Wickman and Kjell Öhman, and he is the first choice when international stars visit Scandinavia. Oscar Johansson-Werre is an award winning young drummer from Uppsala. He has already played with jazz giants like Berndt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Jan Allan och Harry Allen. 2010 he won the award Most Valuable Player on the Youth Jazz Festival in Stockholm, and 2017 he got the Ronnie Gardiners Swedish Drummer Deserving Wider Recognition Award.

M#1 for string quartet and electronics, integrates electronics into the intimate world of chamber music that requires the presence and mutual listening of each musician. The Belgian composer Pierre Slinckx thus forms an unexpected quintet with the MP4 Quartet, playing from a custom-made portable computer with two small MIDI controllers. This unusual instrument has been designed through the process of composition in a very organic way, in order to blend to the sound of the quartet. Pierre Slinckx studied composition and in-depth writing at ARTS2, especially with Claude Ledoux, Jean-Pierre Deleuze, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Gilles Gobert and Denis Pousseur. He today teaches there in-depth writing. As a composer, he is regularly solicited by ensembles that commission him instrumental and mixed works. Winner of the 2013 Henri Pousseur Prize and the 2015 André Souris Prize, which reward promising young composers, he is a member of the LAPS ensemble as a composer and laptop performer. Cypres tag offers him a double carte blanche and invites you to discover his sound universe by simultaneously releasing his first two albums C#1 for grand organ and electronics and M#1 for string quartet and electronics.

Live CD/DVD from Alligator's best-selling artist, with over 117,000 units scanned on his last three studio CDs. First-ever live by charismatic performer with huge fan base built on dynamic shows and relentless tour schedule. 12-SONG, 78-MINUTE CD includes barn-burning versions of fan favorites InchLochloosa,Inch InchThe Sun Is Shining DownInch and the title track. The two hour DVD has three more songs and includes revealing interview and studio vignettes. Web marketing with trailer, plus print, radio and TV promotion. Ongoing tour dates from one of our hardest-touring artists.