Anette Hochberg

Shuffling Ivories may not win any prizes for innovation, but it provides a tuneful hour of accomplished piano and bass playing and insights into the less visible byways of jazz piano.
The title is a play on Shuffle Along, Eubie Blake’s 1921 Broaday musical, written in partnership with Noble Sissle, and with Blake as a starting point this piano and bass album offers a wide-ranging tribute to various styles of ivory-tickling, shuffling them to some extent as it goes.
The first and title track is a traditional swinging blues with Monkish moments, written by Magris. I’ve Found a New Baby is a lively conversational treatment of the standard in which bass and piano create spontaneous counterpoint before coalescing in unadulterated swing for the end…

Former Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon (also partner of Jani Liimatainen in The Dark Element) is set to release her third solo album entitled “Rapture”. Similarly to Anette's second solo album “Strong,” the new release explores a much heavier and faster musical offering compared to her debut and once again stakes a claim for Anette’s well-deserved standing as one of the world's top female metal vocalists!
Once again the music for "Rapture" was written and composed together with acclaimed Swedish guitarist and producer Magnus Karlsson. Together, Anette and Magnus managed to create an outstanding collection of songs, which showcase Anette’s enormous vocal range alongside Karlsson’s incendiary riffs…