Volker Meitz - StaminaStamina means as much as perseverance and is a fitting title for the debut album of Grand Couloir, because the five musicians in Berlin have known and appreciated each other for a long time. Keyboarder Volker Meitz, tenor saxophonist Dirk Steglich, trumpeter Christoph Titz, bassist Roland Fidezius and drummer Tilo Weber have succeeded in creating a highly individual sound that often seems as risky as playing with fire. "We've known each other for a

also acknowledges the best there is in composition

Mike Boone on bass

he had 35 country chart hits

The follow-up "När tystnaden lagt sig

The recorded Liszt etudes are almost unrivalled in their virtuosity and in Scarlatti and Bach the evenness of his finger-work has to be heard to be believed

growing ever more insistent and hypnotic

Robert Hirschfeld

"This definitely ain't "Fish Heads"

New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons

and made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave

named after his three-piece backup group

strong gestural and dance-like energy and a pronounced feeling for differentiated timbres determined Gottfried von Einem's musical diction at an early age