Jazzrausch Bigband

Jazzrausch Bigband – Bruckners Breakdown (2024) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:54:27 minutes | 335 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Bruckners Breakdown (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:27 minutes | 332 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

In its ten-year history, the Jazzrausch Bigband has established itself as an institution that makes the impossible possible: Jazz meets Techno meets Bigband? No problem. Sold-out concerts from electric clubs to jazz festivals to classical houses? Running! And if you think that the musical spectrum of the band could not be wider, you will be taught otherwise by their classical arrangements.

After new versions of the music by Gustav Mahler and Ludwig van Beethoven, “Bruckner’s Breakdown” is now the most unusual album of the Bruckner Year 2024. Jazzrausch house composer Leonard Kuhn transports Bruckner’s symphonies and original compositions based on them mostly into a crisp, almost pop-oriented song format – with intense grooves and often with gripping force, but also with a lot of sophistication and a horn, Percussion, bassoon and three strings extended bigband instrumentation. And with all this, there is still plenty of room for the “jazz” in “Jazzrausch” and the ensemble once again presents itself not only as a perfectly functioning unit, but also as a union of soloistically brilliant individualists.

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Jazzrausch Bigband – Emergenz (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:18 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazz meets techno meets big band. It really shouldn’t work…and yet, as anyone who has ever heard or seen the Jazzrausch Bigband will know, the reality of the band in action firmly knocks that idea on the head. Ever since Jazzrausch started in 2014, it has been on an unstoppable path of growth and development which has been very much on the band’s own terms. Jazzrausch first came to attention as the house band at the legendary Munich techno club “Harry Klein” – currently threatened with closure, incidentally – where the recordings for the new album “Emergenz” were made. Since then, the band’s growing renown has taken it to Germany’s great temples of classical music: the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Isarphilharmonie in Muich and the Berlin Philharmonie… and a buzz has been building internationally too. What is Jazzrausch Bigband all about? Putting a couple of exceptional and unconventional musical brains in charge, letting their sense of what is serious and what is banging prevail, and then seeing how much it can appeal to both younger and older audiences. Jazzrausch has dealt with the whole idea of ‘no can do’. By hitting it out of the ballpark.
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Mahler’s Breakdown (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:37 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Mahler’s Breakdown is the extraordinary arrangement of the band’s chief composer, Leonhard Kuhn, and turns the symphony upside down: 110 years later, Mahler’s departure towards a new musical language is skilfully continued, just as his wish to fill the parts with soloists. In the 50-minute techno version of the ‘Sinfonia Maledetta’, as an Italian copyist expressed it, Jazzrausch Bigband unleashes its instrumental versatility and sheer momentum. Through their energetic improvisations, the 15 musicians take Mahler’s and Kuhn’s music into the here and now. A rave to enjoy listening to, a symphony to dance to.

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Jazzrausch Bigband – Mahler’s Breakdown (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:42:37 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazzrausch Bigband – téchne (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:55 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Jazzrausch Bigband is making jazz sexy again” (Bayerischer Rundfunk). Downbeat has singled out not just the band’s “high-voltage performances” and “party atmosphere”, but also the amount of experimentation going on. The ensemble’s ingenious mix of techno and big band jazz has proved to be just as accessible to people listening to the band from the comfort of their seats in a concert hall as it has to those sweating it out on the dance floor.
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Still Still! Still! (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:37 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

Jazzrausch Bigband is the latest group to join the ACT family of artists, and it stands out being as unique in several respects, in the first place for its size and versatility: it has more than 40 musicians as regular members. Jazzrausch plays an average of 120 concerts a year, which would clearly be impossible to achieve without this bench-strength. Within one year the ensemble has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the JZ Festival in Shanghai, the Safaricom International Jazz Festival in Nairobi, the Ural Music Night in Yekaterinburg and the SXSW in Austin TX. There is probably no other jazz orchestra in the world which is quite as busy, in demand and successful as Jazzrausch. And there is also no other orchestra which reaches audiences as young as it does, notably people who had hitherto been very distant from jazz.Jazzr…
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Dancing Wittgenstein (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:39 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

Jazzrausch Bigband is the latest group to join the ACT family of artists, and it stands out being as unique in several respects, in the first place for its size and versatility: it has more than 40 musicians as regular members. Jazzrausch plays an average of 120 concerts a year, which would clearly be impossible to achieve without this bench-strength. Within one year the ensemble has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the JZ Festival in Shanghai, the Safaricom International Jazz Festival in Nairobi, the Ural Music Night in Yekaterinburg and the SXSW in Austin TX. There is probably no other jazz orchestra in the world which is quite as busy, in demand and successful as Jazzrausch. And there is also no other orchestra which reaches audiences as young as it does, notably people who had hitherto been very distant from jazz.
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Beethoven’s Breakdown (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:01 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

The Beethoven 250th anniversary on 17 December 2020 is an event of national significance in Germany. It even finds its way into the text of the Federal Government’s coalition agreement, where it is stated that the anniversary “offers outstanding opportunities for Germany as a cultural nation both at home and abroad. That is why the preparations for this important anniversary are task for the nation.” Jazzrausch Bigband got the memo straight away. With their album “Beethoven’s Breakdown” the band is honouring the pioneering composer in its own way. Not by being historically authentic or by preserving him in aspic, but in a manner that befits Beethoven the radical innovator. Just as he revolutionized the history of music, the equally forward-looking JRBB has pushed ahead with its bold concept of orchestral techno-jazz.
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Jazzrausch Bigband – Alle Jahre wieder! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:32 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Christmas Music
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The Jazzrausch Bigband has become known for its techno jazz programs, with which it has virtually invented a new genre. But every year, ever since its founding eight years ago, the troupe goes on tour at the end of the year with a Christmas night program. “Like most recently with the album ‘Emergenz,’ our regular projects are about working through themes and thus reinventing ourselves over and over again,” says band founder and leader Roman Sladek. “Our Christmas thing is really just exclusively about fun. Moreover, it was even our first program ever, which we are still lovingly developing. Because we’re dying to devote one month a year entirely to the big band tradition.”
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