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Kurt Rosenwinkel

American composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer and Heartcore Records' founder Kurt Rosenwinkel is one of the most celebrated musical voices in jazz and is widely renowned as one of the most distinctive and gifted guitarists...

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Lucia Cadotsch

Lucia Cadotsch, born in Zurich, Switzerland, is a singer and songwriter based in Berlin. She is one of the most recognized vocalists in the European contemporary jazz scene and is best known for long-standing collaborative bands Speak Low, LIUN + The Science Fiction Band and AKI.

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Daniel Santiago

Daniel Santiago is a composer, guitarist and music producer who for the past 20 years has been an active and key contributor to the Brazilian and world music scenes. Originally from Brazil, Santiago is deeply rooted in the traditional sounds of his homeland, and also cites English rock of the 1970’s and 80’s and the contemporary aesthetic and complexities of modern jazz as major influences upon his unique and diverse musical world.

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Tim Lefebvre

Throughout his wide-ranging career, Tim Lefebvre has amassed a reputation for being one of the world’s most innovative bassists. His playing style is an addictive blend of vintage rock, jazz improvisation, soundtrack undertones, and electronic grooves that can be heard on his appearances on over 150 recordings, ranging from Grammy award-winning albums such as David Bowie’s “Blackstar” to the soundtracks of classic films such as The Departed and Ocean's 12.

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Cecil Alexander

Cecil Alexander is a guitarist, composer, and arranger from Muskegon, Michigan. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2016 with a B.M. in jazz composition. He is a recent graduate (2019) of the M.M. in jazz performance program at William Paterson University. In 2016, he cofounded the folk group Visen, which released its first EP,Shoulder Deep, in 2017.

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Britta Virves

Britta Virves is a pianist and composer born in Saaremaa, Estonia who is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her piano compositions are narratively clear and harmonically modern meditations on the wonder of nature, ecological webs of interconnectedness, and the people and places she calls home.

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Pedro Martins

Pedro Martins presents an exciting trip which elegantly fuses Pop sensibilities with South American elements, all the while undergoing an undoubtedly jazzy treatment.”All About Jazz

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Whose Hat Is This?

Tim Lefebvre: Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Keys, Guitar
Tyler Greenwell: Drums, Percussion
JJ Johnson: Drums, Percussion
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone, Flute

From a serendipitous jam in Berlin to the sun-drenched plains of El Paso, Whose Hat is This? has woven a sonic tapestry fueled by improvisation, flavor and unhindered talent.

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Lucas Winter

Lucas Winter is a New York-based jazz guitarist and composer. Born in Seattle, atCass, Mark Ferber, Clark Sommers, Stomu Takeishi, and Myra Melforduating with a B.F.A in Jazz Performance, studying with Jim Knapp, Jay Thomas, and Chuck DeardorfHigh School jazz program, Lucas performed on multiple occasions at Lincoln Center alongside Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO as a finalist in the Essentially Ellington Jazz competition.

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Bill Hangley, Jr.

Bill Hangley, Jr. is a songwriter from Philadelphia who began playing his guitar on the street almost as soon as he could play it at all...

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Alain Apaloo

Alain Apaloo is a guitarist, singer, bandleader and composer from Togo, Africa who is currently based out of Copenhagen, Denmark. His unique fusion of West African music with blues and jazz traditions, and his soulful voice and guitar playing has won him a diverse international audience.

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Lucia Cadotsch & Wanja Slavin

Their obsessive exploration of the interplay between musical genres seamlessly merges analog and the digital compositional methods. The Slavin’s complex, multilayered arrangements of dark, forceful beats and fragile melodic contours contrast with Cadotsch’s frank, translucent voice.

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JLT - Johan Leijonhufvud Trio

Johan is considered one of the most promising protagonists of contemporary jazz. He has put his name on the list of first-class jazz guitarists, not only as a sideman of Till Brönner and Nils Landgren but also as a bandleader of his own projects, and has often been associated with the tradition of greats like Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery or John Scofield​​.

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Nicola Andrioli

Nicola Andrioli is a pianist, synthesist, composer, arranger, and educator born in Southern Italy and currently based out of Belgium. He has built an extensive discography over the last 15 years both as a band leader and as a sideman, and has performed and recorded in collaboration with legends of the international jazz community.

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Sun Dew

Co-leaders Héloïse Lefebvre and Paul Audoynaud discovered a fertile breeding ground in the german capital for Sun Dew, whose features, like the plant, are as striking as they are bewitching.
In Berlin, they gathered some of the most prominent musicians from the local scene to form an international combination of young artists coming from diverse musical backgrounds.

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Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck

Legendary jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and acclaimed Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck join forces on The Chopin Project, a historic collaboration which finds them reinterpreting the music of Chopin for jazz quartet. Rosenwinkel and Brodbeck are joined by Lukas Traxel on bass, who plays in the Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio, and Jorge Rossy, a stalwart member of the Spanish and American jazz communities. 

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ELEW

Eric Robert Lewis, popularly known as ELEW, is an American Concert Pianist who has found crossover success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls “Rockjazz”, a genre that takes the improvisational aspect of jazz and ‘threads it through the eye of the needle of rock.’

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Bandit 65

Kurt Rosenwinkel – guitar, voice, electronics
Tim Motzer – electro-acoustic guitar synth, electronics
Gintas Janusonis – drums, percussion, electronics

Since its inception in 2016, Bandit 65 has toured the USA, Europe and Japan; the trio’s latest record is an amalgam of musical highlights culled from these three years of intense fully improvised live performance.

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Montë Mar

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