Posted by Markus Muffler on 18 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Concerts, Music, Uncategorized
This year’s program of the Montreux Jazz Festival once again is fantastic. Every year Claude Nobs seems to surpass himself with his festival. Nowhere in the world, you can see and listen to so much high quality music in such a great setting.
I was lucky to spend two unforgettable concert nights in Montreux last week. [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 17 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Design, Music, Uncategorized
Some time ago, my girlfriend discovered the great website www.hardformat.org, a blog about music and design. On this page you can find great picture galleries about record covers from music genres like Jazz and others and much information on the photografers and designers of these pieces. Hardformat exists since two years and was founded by [...]
Posted by Louise Neill on 12 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Design
The Between the Beats team are very excited to reveal a new piece of our finished website…click on the top corners of the wrapping paper and see for yourself! We’d love to hear your feedback.
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 09 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music
You know the feeling when you really need to get hold of a song and you can’t think of anything else anymore? Or, you re-discover long forgotten artists and records that aren’t available in your local record store and you don’t want a lousy mp3-file? The first thing you might do in this case is [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 08 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music, Uncategorized
Are you familiar with the feeling of searching desperately for detailed information and full discographies on certain artists, records or labels on the internet? For example, other than his own, what productions has Wayne Shorter been involved in? The music database ‘Discogs‘ is the perfect solution for this!
Discogs was created in 2000. It’s original purpose [...]
Posted by Louise Neill on 01 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music, Uncategorized
The UK music industry has seen massive change over the last decade, which has been widely covered in the mainstream media. The Big 4 music labels stand accused of being stuck in a time warp as they blame falling music revenues on piracy, rather than waking up to the inevitable long-term impact of the digital [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 23 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music, Newsletter, Uncategorized
The last round of our weekly prize draw is totally “spaced out”. It is the last chance to win a CD, if you subscribe to our newsletter this week. Among all new subscribers we will give away 5 copies of the wonderful compilation “Psychedelic Jazz- The best mindblowing spaced out Jazz Grooves”, all in the [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 23 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Newsletter, Uncategorized
The winners for last week’s prize draw, the Cal Tjader CD on Verve Records, were just drawn. The five lucky ones, who won the CD, were notified by e-mail.
We would like to thank everyone for the registration for the Between the Beats Newsletter.
Enjoy the Blog.
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 16 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music, Newsletter, Uncategorized
This week you can win a CD of Cal Tjader. Just register for our newsletter, and you will take part in our prize draw among all of this weeks new registrations. The winners will be informed Monday, 23rd March.
Cal Tjader (1925 - 1982) was an American vibraphonist and one of the most influential artists in [...]
Posted by Markus Muffler on 10 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music
MPS stands for Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Music Production Black Forest) and had its headquarters in Villingen, a small town in the beautiful Black Forest in the southwest of Germany.
It was founded in 1968 by Jazz-Lover Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and very quickly became one of the most influential Jazz Labels in the 70s and 80s worldwide. In [...]
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