Real Music

For more than 45 years, Berlin has had an oasis for real music called Quasimodo. Founded by an Italian expatriate, it quickly became one of the most important live music clubs in Germany. It still is.

Sérgio Santos Mendes is the man who brought Bossa Nova, Samba and Musica Popular Brasileira to the world. But this is only the simple version of a story that…

Funk equals Kool & the Gang, and vice versa. They co-invented Funk, they have been delivering it for more than half a century and they are almost as active…

The legendary Temptations are almost as active as they were in the 1960s. One original member, 79-year-old Otis Williams, is still with them. The best part of the story is that they are coming to Europe.

The members of the legendary British Jazz-Funk act Shakatak are being accused of planning to spread sophisticated Jazz-Funk. They are reoffenders. Shakatak's…

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.

We know this whole pandemic thing will drag on for a long time. In spite of it all, breathtaking music was recorded this year. These are ten examples.

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…

'Brilliant' is an adjective that is overused. The same applies to the nouns 'virtuoso' or 'genius'. But all of these words are more than appropriate when used…

All over the world, people go for the 'Made in Germany' label when they purchase new Audis, tanks and other weapons, ice cream, bread, washing powder, cuckoo clocks or other useless items. Yes, they love Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner, they read Schiller Goethe, Grass, Mann and others. But what about Jazz?