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The Germans eat raw wurst, their 'Office of Order' sends out parking tickets, and they close all shops on Sundays. All of that is pretty crazy already. But the way they change titles of Hollywood movies is just unbelievable.

In the history of Soul, Funk and Jazz, 1979 was a crucial year during which many acts of these genres came up with breathtaking compositions and arrangements.…

Arturo Sandoval is the measure of all things having to do with the trumpet. His biography is quite a story too. 'Turi' is about to turn 70.

Several Bulgarian women's choirs around the famous project 'Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices' have fascinated the world for decades. It all started long before the fall of communism. Now one of those choirs, 'The Bulgarian Voices - Angelite' is about to hit four German stages.

There are bass players and bass players. Mark King from the Isle of Wight in Britain is definitely part of the second category. The slap bass master founded the…

When the so-called 'Acid Jazz' movement hit the British Jazz-Funk scene in the early 1990s, a guitar hero by the name of Simon Batholomew was one of its main…

Milcho Leviev is a master musician famous for his work in both classical music and Jazz. The 82-year-old Bulgarian has worked with many American Jazz legends and ran bands of his own. Similar to his Cuban colleague Arturo Sandoval, he escaped when the communists put him under pressure.

Berlin's theaters and orchestras, those sponsored by the state, can hardly save themselves from the huge audiences that are invading those venues this year.…

Sixty years ago, a character called Asterix first appeared in a Franco-Belgian comics magazine called 'Pilote'. It was the beginning of an incredible success…

Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden are in for impressive performances of Mozart's 'Requiem', the last piece he ever wrote. A famous orchestra, a choir and the appropriate venues will make those evenings more than special.