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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. Forty years ago, quality was an important aspect, even in the Pop and Rock universe.

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…

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 legendary band Level 42. Today is his birthday.

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…

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. They are expecting as many as 3.3 million spectators.

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…

When a baby boy named Manfred Sepse Lubowitz was born in Johannesburg in 1940, nobody had the slightest clue he would found the first South African Rock band, be a global superstar a few years later, and that his career would last for decades.