Nachdem im letzten Jahr das zehnjährige Jubiläum der Relax Album Serie mit einer „Best of...“ gebührend gefeiert wurde, erscheint am 29.8. nun endlich das sehnsüchtig erwartete neue Studio Album „Relax Edition Eight“ von Blank & Jones.
Um keine Routine aufkommen zu lassen, entschieden sich Piet Blank, Jaspa Jones und Andy Kaufhold, erstmalig seit dem Debut Album Relax Edition 1 im Jahr 2003, nicht nur das Songwriting, sondern auch den kompletten Aufnahmeprozess in den Sommer zu verlegen.
Dafür reisten sie Anfang Juni auf die Balearen nach Mallorca und richteten sich in einer abgelegenen Finca mit ihrem Equipment ein. Neben einem wunderschönen Video und einer Fotosession entstand so diesmal auch ein Großteil der Songs direkt dort, wo die Musik von Relax ihren Ursprung hat. Und so klingt das Album auch: Sonnendurchflutet, entspannt und positiv - eben 100% Relax!

What started in 1999 turned into a triumphal march for the band and producer Frank Peterson with sales exceeding over 10 million worldwide and being awarded Gold and Platinum in 18 countries. Gregorian certainly is one of the most successful German artists abroad. In March 2016, Gregorian will take the stage once more for a grand finale: their “Final Chapter Tour”. The breathtaking live production, its gigantic light show, spectacular visual effects and impressive choreography is complemented with the powerful voices of the eight classically trained singers and already enchanted over 2,5 million people from Europe to Japan.

The soundtrack to the 2015 jazz biopic Born to Be Blue features music that strongly evinces, but never quite lives up to, the sound of the film's main protagonist, the late trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker. Starring Ethan Hawke as Baker and directed by Robert Budreau, Born to Be Blue is a semi-fictitious retelling of Baker's life set during his career comeback in the 1960s.

Pianist, composer, and educator Tuomo Uusitalo—born in Finland and, since 2012, a resident fixture of the New York City jazz scene - offers up something special in Love Song, his second album as leader. Special, not only because with it Uusitalo has rewritten his name into the ledger of modern jazz in flowing script, but also because he has come more maturely into his own as an improviser. For while we can still count on the virtuosity that distinguished his debut, here Uusitalo tempers that virtuosity in the furnace of life.