Joachim

Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780–1861) was one of the last of the larger-than-life castrati whohad dominated operatic life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) described the encounter between the organised philosophical world of the ancient Greek and the mystical, abstruse world of the East as a dark fire.

Trotz seiner stolzen 74 Jahre macht Joachim Witt weiterhin keine Anstalten, kürzer zu treten oder leiser zu werden.

Reportedly, Ornette Coleman did not have a great affinity for pianists, but it was the instrument—rather than the musicians—that put Coleman off. As an innovator in free jazz, Coleman found the chordal instrument too intrusive and preferred a more sympathetic bass/soloist interaction.

On his Nonesuch Records debut album, Over That Road I’m Bound, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joachim Cooder uses the plain-spoken songs of country-music progenitor and banjo player Uncle Dave Macon as a jumping off point, tinkering with the lyrics and reworking melodies for his chosen instrument: an electric mbira.

Listen to 13 tracks by artist and performer Joachim Schneider and get real pleasure from the piercing sound of this masterpiece.

Although not a free jazz musician, per se, Kuhn has been an avant-gardist; he began attempting a fusion of contemporary classical elements with jazz very early in his career.

In Ki moun ou ye Nathalie Joachim asks, “Who are you?” This is a question Nathalie has been answering since her previous album Fanm d'Ayiti, a love letter to Haitian women, the foremothers of Haitian music, and the matriarchs in her personal life.

There is serendipity about Joachim Kühn and Mateusz Smoczyński having combined as a duo. Their musical conversations tend to be sparked off by catchy little themes or motifs. Dialogues evolve freely, but also have a real sense of focus. Their pulse and their breathing seem to be as one. The pair have the courage to set off wherever their combined fantasy and imagination will take them, finding all kinds of moods and emotions along the way.

If curiosity has a name, then it is Joachim Kühn. In fact, there are few jazz musicians who have spanned the musical arc as broadly as the pianist, who will turn 70 on March 15 - from free to to fusion jazz to occidental art music to world music.