29 Tracks from Legends, Strong Voices, Free Spirits and Jazz Greats with:

• Tingvall Trio
• Omar Sosa
• Emil Brandqvist Trio
• Martin Tingvall, solo
• Albert Mangelsdorff
• Charlie Mariano
• Wolfgang Schlüter
• Carmen Cuesta-Loeb
• Wolfgang Haffner
• Paula Morelenbaum
• Pee Wee Ellis
• Joo Kraus
• Tony Lakatos
• Vladyslav Sendecki & Jürgen Spiegel
• Tuomas A. Turunen
• Caro Josée
• Sandro Roy
• Nina Attal
• Luka Bloom
• David Friedman
• David Gazarov
• Robert Wolf & Paco de Lucia
• Joe Gallardo & NDR Bigband
• Peter Fessler
• SWR Bigband
• Themba Mkhize
• Peter Weniger
• Wolfgang Schmid
• Martin Dahanukar

for download and streaming go directly to “20 YEARS OF PASSION.

gave us and an audience of 1,300 the gift of a one-of-its-kind evening in the “Grosser Saal”, the main venue at the Laeiszhalle concert hall in Hamburg:

THE CONCERT turned into a multicolored “pictorial” of the widest variety of genres. Alongside winners of the ECHO JAZZ award such as Caro Josée, Joo Kraus and Giovanni Weiss, the musical guests performing at the birthday party included the French guitarist/vocalist Nina Attal with a magical solo performance, the young, up-and-coming classical prospect Sandro Roy on violin, first-rate jazz musicians such as Tony Lakatos, Peter Weniger, Ingolf Burkhardt and Gustavo Ovalles, as well as the piano trios from Emil Brandqvist and Martin Tingvall.

The current No. 1 artist on the German Jazz Charts equally spearheaded a faction of international pianists: In addition to Martin Tingvall there were musical birthday greetings from Boris Netsvetaev, Tuomas Turunen, Vladyslav Sendecki and Omar Sosa, whose appearance ultimately set the hall shaking and quaking with delight.

Following an on-stage jam session involving all of the evening’s artists, it was Joo Kraus and Tuomas Turunen who sent the birthday-party audience on its way home with a touching duo version of “One Moment In Time”.

Bernd and Sabine say: THANK YOU to all musicians and to the great audience!

P.S. We feel very sorry for the system errors between ticketshops of Laeiszhalle and Eventim – this was not our responsibility.
But we hope that nevertheless those people found a good seat to enjoy.

Hier kann man die Sendung zum SKIP Jubiläum nachhören PLAY JAZZ.

The new solo project entitled “The Rocket” now sets itself apart due to an even greater degree of weightlessness and lightness, yet without ever drifting off into the trivial and banal. The traditional apportioning between left and right hand blurs: the left is equally entitled to carry the melody and vice versa. This pianist who splits his time living in Hamburg and southern Sweden uses the figure of a rocket exploring an unknown orbit to describe this levitating across new audiophonic worlds.
A musician who moves equally among categories such as film scoring, classical, jazz or pop, on this album Martin Tingvall plays seemingly simple sounding, grippingly beautiful melodies that at times conjure up associations with classical figures, other times reflect his origins stemming from Scandinavian folk music, and in the next moment gravitate closely to the veritable improvisational freedom we call jazz. He has long since left the commonplace “shoeboxing” of genres behind him to create his very own Tingvall world of sound comprised of different sources of inspiration.
“Our world is governed by transformation at an incredibly fast speed. Digitalization is changing almost all areas of society, our daily lives. With this album I wanted to design an antithesis to that, an opposite pole of tranquility. At the same time I’m exploring new musical worlds for myself, too.”
Album premiere on June 24, 2019 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. For more concert see TOUR DATES

An extraordinary celebration of masterpieces
chosen by the artists: played solo, as ensembles,
and in surprising lineups…

Hamburg, the 13th of November, 2018

Wolfgang Schlüter, one of the premier representatives of his generation in the realm of European Jazz, passed away yesterday on the 12th of November, 2018, at the age of 85. Completely unexpectedly, and at the moment busily involved with concluding the final touches for a new project together with his quartet and string ensembles, he succumbed to the aftereffects of a stroke. With heartfelt grief and the greatest respect, we look back on a career as vibraphonist that endured for 65 years. A career distinguished by his versatile, variegated solo work playing in the orchestras of renowned bandleaders such as Kurt Edelhagen, Erwin Lehn, Werner Müller, Paul Kuhn or James Last. In 2013 he received the ECHO JAZZ award for a joint project together with the NDR Bigband, a formation which had acted as a musical home for him for many years. As recently as last year he was awarded the “Hamburger Jazzpreis” for his lifetime achievements. His work as a member of the Michael Naura Quintet, later on together with Naura and lyric poet Peter Rühmkorf, is among the musical events that most distinctly characterized post-war Jazz in Germany. Although marked by a series of misfortunes that directly affected his health and family, he continued to give moving, highly acclaimed concerts and had forged major plans for his music in 2019. He lived faithful to the motto penned by Peter Rühmkorf, “Remain shakeable to the roots and resist.”
Wolfgang Schlüter is survived by two children and grandchildren along with the woman he called his partner in life.
Our sorrow knows no bounds.

The most important culture format at German TV, aspekte at ZDF, invited the Emil Barndqvist Trio to perform in the show – it was broadcasted on July 20th.
They played DU HALLER MIN HAND (from album SEASCAPES)

check it out on aspekte.

More festivals and concerts are coming in July, August, September and October…

Tingvall Trio let the CIRKLAR engines scream: #1 at German Jazzcharts, even #29 at Popcharts, most sucessful instrumental jazz album of 2017 and now a golden Jazzaward after less than 6 months!
The trio celebrated this award together with distribution partners Soulfood Entertainment and Kontor New Media and label SKIP Records.

Pianist Tuomas Antero Turunen from Finland, well known as part of the Emil Brandqvist Trio, is now presenting his first solo album at SKIP called ORNAMENTS OF TIME. it is a beautiful collection of mainly own compositions which play with elements from classic, jazz and folklore. SuomiJazz.com reviews it as “a work of a master”.

Tuomas introduces his new album on facebook.

Two years after his debut “Where I Come From” this young violinist is now returning with a project devoted to France as its thematic focus: amazingly mature and conceptually coherent in the choice of content, yet sparkling with facets that surprise again and again. It seems only natural that the great French musicians and composers such as Michel Legrand, Babik Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli have inspired him. Yet interestingly enough, it’s the younger Jazz generation that spurs him on to thrillingly new interpretations, musicians like Michel Petrucciani and Richard Galliano. For this album he chose the members of the Jermaine Landsberger Trio as accompanists. Very special highlights are set by two more guest artists with established ‘names’ in French-speaking regions: Marcel Loeffler, a blind accordion-player who can be heard together with Sandro Roy as a duo on the French classics “Tendre Reve” and “Paris Violon”, and together with the trio on the Richard Galliano composition entitled “Waltz For Nicky”. Such tracks are followed by breathtaking moments playing with Roby Lakatos, a highly esteemed violinist in classical circles, where dizzyingly divine dialogs arise on Irving Berlin’s “Let’s Face The Music And Dance” and “Gipsylogy”.

Check out the MAKING OF

More than 20.000 units of the Tingvall Trio album VÄGEN have been sold in Europe so far – this rare fact in the scene of instrumental jazz music has been decorated by an IMPALA in Silver – awarded by the organisation of Europe’s Independent Labels in London. The IMPALA celebration took place in Hamburg at Elbphilharmonie – after a sold out concert among familiar faces of family, friends and longterm business partners. Congratulations!
Martin, Jürgen and Omar are happy and salute their international fans!!!

Right after release of CIRKLAR it went into the Pop charts # 29 this is the highest position the trio ever reached (so far) – Congratulations!

And in addition the album entered # 1 of the German Jazz Charts!!!

We are proud to announce a special exclusive co-operation with one of the best mail-order company: JPC
5 highlights from the SKIP catalogue was selected to be released on Vinyl (180g) for the first time.
The special vinyl mastering was done by Hans-Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics, Northeim Germany – so you can expect highest sound quality!!!

Great drummer and composer Wolfgang Haffner made the start: his album ZOOMING entered the german Jazz Charts at #7 – it presents amazing songs and several wonderful guest for example like Rebekka Bakken, Till Brönner and Nils Landgren – you can order here

direkt bei JPC.

Next release is album PUBLIC JAZZ LOUNGE from ECHO Jazz Winner Joo Kraus & SWR Big Band

to order PJL directly at JPC.

Next one will be the Latin Grammy nominated album MULATOS from Omar Sosa

get direct link to MULATOS at JPC.

Very soon will be released: a double-album of legendary Albert Mangelsdorff called TRIPLICITY and in October the Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom on his beautiful Live album AMSTERDAM.

This limited box-set includes:

1. new CD CIRKLAR
2. bonus CD with 8 Vinyl- and digital-only-tracks (not released on CD) with autographed sleeve
3. black TT Cirklar powerbank card (2600 mAh, incl. Micro-UBP cabel and lightning adapter for iPhone)
4. packed into a TT branded black circular metal box

To order directly at JPC.

The video tells about the trio in Hamburg, their home town, where the thrilling TT story started, where they set off on tours around the world, and where they always return to give a special concert: in 2017 at the new Elbphilharmonie.

It was filmed in the new Oberhafen Quartier (district near Hamburg’s port) and combined with live footage shot during the “acoustic test concert” at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in November 2016.

The video was directed by Torben Asmussen, Hamburg.