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On February 25th the Sami singer and songwriter Mari Boine was awarded with the honorary award at Spellemannprisen in Oslo, Norway. The jury honours her engagement for the music and 30 decades of work ...

We are very sad to hear that yesterday the great French violinist Didier Lockwood past away at the age of 62. He played over 4.500 concerts in his life time and worked with such jazz cats as Dave Brubeck, Miles ...

This is the last digital re-issue bunch of MPS Records. The whole MPS Jazz back-catalogue will be digital available for the first time in MPS history by the end of this year. But this is not the end of reforesting ...

The digital MPS re-issue marathon is nearly finished. This is the forelast digital release bunch. By the end of this year the complete MPS Records catalogue is digital available on all common download services for the first time. The Francy Boland ...

The MPS reissue series kicks off in the fall of 2017 with an attractive ‘five-pack’ of artists who have been central to this label; milestones, rediscoveries and new discoveries, as well as rare and much sought-after pieces are hidden within ...

Born in Romania in 1940, Eugen Cicero performed his first piano concert with a symphony orchestra at the age of six. Abandoning his career as classical concert pianist, Cicero pursued his passion of integrating jazz rhythms, harmonies and improvisation with ...

Called ‘the Jimmy Hendrix of the violin’, compared to Eric Clapton and spoken of in the same breath with the likes of Jean Luc Ponty, Don ‘Sugarcane’ Harris was the violin master of jazz-inflected rock ‘n’ roll. His association with ...

Two more MPS Records will be digital available on Friday, October 20th. About the first one Dizzy Gillespie - 20th And 30th Anniversary (Live in Berlin) - Allmusic stated that, “Joined by a particularly strong big band, the trumpeter is ...

Exclusively for Plattenladenwoche you will find Hamilton de Holanda's signature not only in each of the tracks of this album but also written on the cover. These selected retailers all over Germany will have this ...

We have two highlights coming up for you, so we will keep it short. First of all and some of you might know this already, MPS Records will turn fifty on April 1st, 2018. This anniversary calls for a proper celebration ...