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After releasing the first two appetizers "Cosmic Peace" and "Universal Rhythm" MPS is now presenting the third single "Let Your Light Shine On" of the Italian producer and guitar player Nicola Conte – the title ...

MPS releases Malia’s new album "Ripples (Echoes of Dreams)". In 2004, the British-Malawian singer Malia, at that time still at the beginning of her impressive career, released her album "Echoes of Dreams". Now 14 years later ...

A little boy is all smiles, sitting at the piano – the piano on which his mother used to play and his first piano ever. It's the same piano on which the German-American-Persian musician Malakoff Kowalski has ...

The federal association of music industry (BVMI) has just announced this year’s nominees for the ECHO JAZZ Award. We are glad to inform you that Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda received a nomination in the category 'Instrumentalist Special Instruments' for ...

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 ...