Tribute to Jaco Pastorius by the WDR Big Band at the 33 Leverkusener Jazztage 2012 Germany WDR BIG BAND conducted by VINCE MENDOZA plays Jaco Pastorius compositions VICTOR BAILEY bass PETER ERSKINE ...

Swiss trombonist and arranger Christophe Schweizer met Billy Hart 10 years ago, when the great drummer was giving an ensemble class at the Mannes College of Music in New York. A seed sown then springs ...

WDR’s world-famous Studio for Electronic Music (SEM) is moving to a new home: at its meeting on Thursday (3.2.2022), Cologne City Council approved the proposal to expand Cologne’s Early Music Centre ...

Bill Dobbins, music director; Heiner Wiberny, alto, soprano sax, flute, clarinet; Harald Rosenstein, alto, soprano sax, flute; Olivier Peters, tenor, soprano sax ...

Pianist Fred Hersch always seems to have a new project on the go: his latest release sees him teaming up with the WDR Big Band, who also enlisted the help of Vince Mendoza to arrange Hersch's tunes ...

Pianist composer Bill Laurance loved Brad Mehldau's record The Art of the Trio and listened to Radiohead and Roni Size as a teenager which, he says, is reflected in chords on the middle section of ...

German broadcaster WDR has linked up with Swiss prodco First Hand Films to coproduce a new documentary about African music. Fonko (6×26’/3×52’/1×90’) explores the continent’s role in global music and ...

Vince Mendoza and the Westdeutschen Rundfunks big band go back a long way and it shows. Widely regarded as one of the finest living arrangers for large jazz ensembles, Mendoza has worked his sublime, ...

Seven Saturdays with European voices from seven countries in WDR 3 Klassik Forum. Europa zu Gast (Europe as Guest) is a special series from WDR 3 Klassik Forum, a programme broadcast from 9:00-12:00 ...

The Westdeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra of Cologne is scarcely in the top league of German bands. The Westdeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra of Cologne is scarcely in the top league of German ...