No Reduce -][- JAYWALKIN’ – [NWOG Records, 2012] –

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Christoph Irniger, Dave Gisler, Nasheet Waits. NWOG Records, No Reduce, Raffaele Bossard

No Reduce, Jaywalkin’

No Reduce -][- JAYWALKIN’ –Mp3– [NWOG Records, 2012]

New York remains the Mecca of Jazz. The magnetism emanating towards curious and reckless jazz musicians throughout the rest of the world is accordingly potent. The helvetic representatives of young Swiss Jazz Christoph Irniger, Raffaele Bossard and Dave Gisler did not lean back after their first pilgrimage to New York, but brought into life a band with exceptional drum talent Nasheet Waits. Their music portrays a mixture of skyscraper euphoria and the existentialism of pavement gorges. Dave Gisler describes the band as follows: “We wanted to form an explosive band, that would let us realise our musical visions while entrancing an audience. -[Excerpt | Biography]-

::: SOURCE: No Reduce.com :::

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Maria Baptist Trio -][- GATE 29 – [Maria Baptist Music, 2012] –

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Composer, Eastern Berlin, European Jazz, Maria Baptist, Maria Baptist Music, Pianist

Maria Baptist Trio, GATE 29

Maria Baptist Trio -][- GATE 29 –Mp3– [Maria Baptist Music, 2012]

Maria Baptist, who was born in 1971 in Eastern Berlin, had the initial dream of becoming a classical pianist. But while secretly listening to Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett at the age of fifteen, she discovered a hole new world of music that she had not been exposed to. When the Berlin Wall fell, she took the opportunity to move to the capital city of Jazz itself: New York, where she was able to study with esteemed musicians such as the Jazz orchestra composer Maria Schneider.