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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…

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 contributors, in several acts. Most Funk enthusiasts know him as a member of the brilliant Brand New Heavies.

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.…

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 story, thanks to the gift and humor of the creators René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

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,…

There are countless Jewish artists who impressed, mesmerized, inspired and entertained the world, including superstars like Leonard Cohen or Barbra Streisand. Some Jewish musicians and entertainers left big footprints on this planet before they passed away, others are still working on theirs.