Klaus Larsen

Presenting: Antoine BOYER , Samy DAUSSAT, Bireli LAGRENE, Remi HARRIS, Tommy EMANUEL, Florin NICULESU, Jimmy ROSENBERG, Adrien MOIGNARD, Steve ASTON, Gonzalo BERGARA, Stuart BLAGDEN/Tim PANTING, Fumihiko KONO, Jon LARSEN, Walter CORONDA, Jörg SEIDEL, Hajo HOFFMANN, Joerg WIDMOSER, Claes NEEB, Max GROSCH, Mauro ALBERT, Laurent COURTOIS, Luciano POLI, Klaus LESSMANN, Maurizio GERI, CAFÉ ROYAL SALONORCHESTER, Hot Club de Norvège, Dejan KRSMANOVIĆ, DJANGO COLLECTIVE HELSINKI, and many others!

With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late '90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz. Her 1996 album All for You was a Nat King Cole tribute that showed the singer/pianist's roots, and since then she has stayed fairly close to that tradition-minded mode, with wildly successful results…

Copenhagen Art Ensemble - Angels' Share (2000) {Dacapo DCCD 9452}
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Jazz / Modern Jazz / Jazz Sinfonietta / Small Combo

The folks who comprise the “Copenhagen Art Ensemble” are among the top modern jazz players in Denmark these days. And while many of the members veer off into splinter groups, such as “The Crossover Ensemble”, “When Granny Sleeps” and others, these musicians consistently turn in above par efforts regardless of the format or genre. With their latest release titled, Angels’ Share the band utilizes a phrase derived from the maturation process of Scotch whiskey, as the music and overall concept is befitting of an unfolding saga that persists within the often enterprising Danish jazz scene.

Listeners might quibble over whether the 100 pieces collected here constitute precisely THE most relaxing classical music in the whole universe, but it can't be denied that this music is in fact mellow and relaxing, except for perhaps the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, which might get the blood pumping at its climax. The pieces are all instrumental and the tracks are weighted toward orchestral music of the Baroque, Romantic, and post-Romantic periods, although the Classical and Modern periods aren't entirely neglected, and there is some chamber music and keyboard music.