Niescier/ Niescier/ Finlayson - New York TrioDuring the current decade Cologne based saxophonist Angelika Niescier has made her connection to New York's elite improvisational jazz community readily clear. Her trio album The Berlin Concert, was voted one of the most important releases of 2018 by Downbeat. This stunning new recording suggests that only the Atlantic Ocean separates her from the agile collaborators heard here. Once again her music is anchored by the bass playing of Chris Tordini,

Leo van Doeselaar

the girls also have to keep themselves sane

This musical journey around the world is comparable to Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Again the successful team with Christie's Les Arts Florissants (who just celebrated the 30th year of its existence) and Pier Luigi Pizzi to work with the second opera of the new Monteverdi trilogy

oratorio and cabaret Denys Bouliane investigates the heritage of the French writer Boris Vian

Tender banjo plucks and piano keys serve as the base for Vu's escalating harmonies

living with cats & dogs

It might encourage one to rise up and take a turn or two around the floor

(Dido and Cleopatra)

The guy's got more chops than a beauticians' college

Finklestein

but compositionally very elaborate pieces