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The mastermind behind Tristan is Coen Molenaar, a master pianist, composer and arranger. He recorded and toured with many fellow Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Soul greats. They must have fed him sheets of music for breakfast as a child. The thing is that Coen Molenaar's unbelievable arrangements stick out. The same applies to his playing. Where other…

The victim of this racist murder, King, would have been needed in the decades since he was killed. He is needed even today, in 2019.

Lauda was always a pragmatist. As a Formula 1 racer he used to say he gladly would have taken other jobs, had he been good at anything else. This seems to mean he never wanted to be the hero standing in the center of it all, while almost everyone around him did.

Politicians mourned Lagerfeld as well. Michael Roth, the Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said the fashion designer had probably…

It was 1979 when he ended his racing career, saying "I don't want to drive in circles anymore". But in 1982 he returned anyway. While he had been part of the…

When The Brand New Heavies made landfall during the so-called Acid Jazz Revolution, the sounds they delivered were too funky and colorful to believe. They were a “Dream Come True”, for both their audiences and the group itself. This band made sure the world kept on spinning. In 1997, some 21 years ago, they reached their “Highest High”, with…

In the former Jewish Ghetto of Rome, countless kosher “milky” and “meaty” restaurants attract customers. Less than half of them are Jewish, the bigger half is…

Lithuania is one of those three smaller northeastern European countries people who have not been there tend to mix up. Estonia is the northernmost of those…

In 1980, a gifted young drummer by the name of Roger Odell did what gifted young drummers usually do. He joined a band, which was "Easier Said Than Done". Little did he know that his band, Shakatak, was going to make him very busy for the next 38 years and beyond.