Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 14 May 2009 | Tagged as: Music, Uncategorized
From June 1-5, an exhibition of drawings and oil paintings of Miles Davis will be showcased at The Exchange Court Gallery in London.
In the early 80ies Miles Davis discovered his passion for art. His painting reflects his well documented fascination with and love of woman, together with evocations of African tribal art. All the drawings [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 17 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Concerts, Music, Uncategorized
From April 23rd - 26th, the International Jazz fair “jazzahead” will take place for the fourth year in a row in Bremen / Germany.
“jazzahead’s” motto is “start talking Jazz”, and they will be hosting live concerts, panel discussions, exhibitions and symposiums.
At the fair you can find alot of interesting exhibitors like the Jazz [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 06 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Community, Music
Those people, who are interested in details or want to see things in context, are trying to understand what is written between the lines. We find, what is the case for poems, novels or other forms of writing, is also true for music.
For us, it can be very fascinating to explore the creativity of a [...]
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music, Newsletter
If you register now for our newsletter, you will automatically participate in our price draw. This week will give away 5 copies of the Donald Byrd CD »Free Form« (Blue Note Records).
Byrd is definitely among the most influential trumpet players. Born in 1932, he played with almost every »big name« in jazz during his career (Thelonious Monk, John [...]
Posted by Markus Muffler on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music, Newsletter
Hello, and welcome
to our first article in our Between the Beats Blog. This is a project of Markus Muffler and Dennis Wiesch, founders and owners of the German-based company Pinetree GmbH & Co. KG.
We both share a passion for non-mainstream, mainly jazz based music. Under a broader horizon we are passionate about ‘music that surprises’. [...]
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