Various Artists - Mainz Studio Recordings 1963When the Darmstadt teenager Volker Kriegel (1943 2003) officially debuted his first chords in the late 1950s, the guitar was still an outsider instrument in jazz. It could boast a few luminaries, but actually everything was still open when, in 1963 and 1964, the autodidact from Hessen won first prizes as guitarist and soloist at the amateur jazz festival in Dsseldorf. The debut recordings in 1963, which Sdwestfunk (SWF) recorded with the nineteen year

This new album contains eleven songs

Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D

His fruitful years in America are reflected by the jazz-influenced Three Fantasies and throughout one can hear examples of the beautiful folk-based music that is so much a feature of his compositions

Louise Farrenc's trio from 1857 shows that she was a contemporary of early Romanticism

but her heart was always in Gospel music

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And when I succeed I quit too

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The songs illuminate states of dispossession and alienation

Opener "The Long Dream" sets the stage with steady rain on sheet metal

who owns a spaceship restaurant known for a noodle soup with an ancestral secret recipe

Elizabeth had to overcome numerous adversaries to become one of history's most remarkable figures