With “Prologue”, Bart Wirtz presents his surprising debutalbum. With his flexible way of playing the alto saxophone, Bart knows how to please his audience. The debut album contains eight fantastic original compositions. Authenticity is the keyword on this album and the listeners will be pleased by this quality quartet. Continue reading
Last month you already had the change to get a sneak preview of the upcoming album. We’ve also mentioned that several tracks are already available for download at the iTunes superstore. This time we can tell you the vinyl testpressing sounds superb but that’s not all. We now can also share what the sleeve is gonna look like. Always handy, so you know what to look for in stores beginning of May 
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One of world’s best saxophone quartets is busier than they’ve ever been. Recently they performed very succesful with percussion group Anumaduchi, Peter Erskine (Steps Ahead/Weather Report) and Doudou N’Diaye Rose (Miles Davis). There is some footage available but that’s being edited as we speak. Continue reading
On Friday (April 3rd) and Saturday (April 4th) the Stadtgarten presents two Unique artists:Â The Sweet Vandals from Spain presenting their “Dirty Club Sound” to you. The new Vandals’ record “Lovelite” is to be released March 27th. Their extensive European tour also leds them to Cologne where they will proof the live quality of their new stuff. See YouTube for more interesting info!But more is yet to come: Laura Vane and the Vipertones! Continue reading
Although this title is not on the sleeve of the CD, my I-Tunes reads the disc as being called ‘Jazz And Beyond’ and it’s an apt title (and obviously it’s original title). It is a compilation of original versions and remixes of bands on Social Beats in Holland in the Nu-Jazz style. Continue reading
Hey, we are really proud and pleased to announce that the debut Laura Vane And The Vipertones 7″ single, ‘Steam/Man Of Your Word’ on Social Beats (Hol)/ Unique(Ger) is finally released!! For a FULL LISTEN of the single and for more info please head to their website Continue reading
Vrijdag 16 januari 2009 staan de mannen van AIFF in de Badcuyp. In 2007 verscheen het debuut album ‘Afro Soul System’ van AIFF, een afkorting voor Afro Influenced Funk Federation. DJ, drummer en producer Phil Martin en DJ, bassist/gitarist Ton van der Kolk brengen op dit album hun eigen afro-funk stijl. Continue reading
After a very succesful tour last october and november with ‘Venice’ Charlie Vaughn will be touring The Netherlands again. January 2nd he’ll be playing an acoustic set at Merz in Dordrecht. January 4th he’ll be doing ‘de Meander’ in Amsterdam. At these gigs he’ll be accompanied by three of Dordrecht’s finest musicians: Timothy van der Holst (percussion), Ton van der Kolk (bass) and Randy Derkhof (guitar). Continue reading
Recently ‘Dutch Rare Groove Vol 2′ appeared and again it’s a nice piece of work. Forgotten masterpieces and ultra funky rareties were collected and put together by the one and only dutch funk professor: Sjeng Stokking. He’ll be presenting this nice funky disque in De Melkweg during The Dutch Rare Groove Revue. Ofcourse veejay Steadycam will be there as well. Continue reading
In November, the Jazzinvaders were invited to play in Spain twice. On Friday the 14th, we arrived in Granada, a gorgeous town with a lot of history, a large community of students and among them – as it turned out – many music fans. Continue reading