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INDEPENDENT CULTURE


Passion-driven independent record companies have produced some of the most important music in jazz. The tradition continues...

Mizar

Natural Design
[BeagleBeat]

Mizar is an award-winning jazz-pop trio that plays a capturing, progressive blend of jazz, eighties’ pop and world music. With influences ranging from The Rippingtons, Jamiroquai and Enya, being a Budapest, Hungary-based band they also tap into the rich musical heritage of Central Europe which renders a unique touch to [...]

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Mimi Jones

A New Day
[Hot Tone Music]

Mimi Jones, multi-talented bassist, composer and vocalist whose debut CD offers an eclectic mix of genres based on a solid jazz foundation leaving room for funky bass grooves, world beat rhythms and expressive textures. The CD is bursting with original instrumental compositions occasionally caressed by the warmth of Mimi’s sultry voice and was featured [...]

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Michel Reis

Fairytale
[WPR Jazz]

In 2005, this promising young talent was awarded 4th place in the First Moscow Competition for Jazz Performance (Piano) and in 2006 he won 2nd prize at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition. Around that time he released his first album entitled A Young Mind. On his second album, Fairytale, [...]

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Michael Tinholme

The House of Jazz
[Blue Planet Record]

Michael Tinholme’s landmark CD “The House Jazz” produced by Tom Fowler and under the musical supervision of Bruce Fowler unfolds like a score to a major feature film about the longing for love and justice followed by hope and renewal. From homelessness to working with today’s most renowned and accomplished [...]

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Mads Tolling

The Playmaker
[self-released]

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist & composer, is a two time Grammy Award-Winner. Mads’ sophomore CD release The Playmaker connects music with sports and features Stanley Clarke, Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris. Songs by Tolling, P. W. Ellis, Monk & Led Zeppelin. “Virtuosity may be a given on The Playmaker, [...]

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Linda Oh

Entry
[Self-released]

Chinese-Australian bassist Linda Oh (based in NYC) makes a bold and striking statement with her debut trio album Entry. Along with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and drummer Obed Calvaire, Oh and her trio create an inventive dialogue once described as a “unified  three-way tug-of-war.” The beauty and logic of these compositions [...]

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