The latest album by Aaron Parks, released at the end of 2018 by Ropeadope. Little Big, recorded with Greg Tuohey – guitar, David Ginyard – bass and Tommy Crane on drums. At the first glance a surprising story, that started out as a combination of acoustic piano, electric guitar and a few vocals here and there. A fairy tale that calms you down and sends you off to a place far, far away.

This week we dedicate to the New York Winter Jazz fest 2019 and the music that we heard. It is with great pleasure that we share this information about the festival, because the main names on the programme were people we featured throughout the three months of musicaround.bg’s existence.

Here we are in the new year and everyone is listening to the Vienna Philharmonic with some of their genius conductors. We are starting off the year with head conductor to the Berlin Philharmonic - Kirill Petrenko and the winter fairytale and the “Symphonic dances” by Rachmaninoff.

The Jamie Saft quartet – about the complicity between music, the deep understanding of it and experiencing the same things together. The new album in a quartet formation only proves the genius of Jamie Saft.

Musicaround is still riding the festival wave and we go straight from Sarajevo to New York – Ilhan Ersahin’s Nublu club, for this year’s edition of the Nublu jazz fest. A wide variety of accents this year – from the classics by Sun Ra Arkestra and Brian Jackson, Now vs Now and Dave Harrington to Spy from Cairo amongst many more…

The currently approaching autumn is flooding us with new projects by our favorite pianists. The day becomes shorter, so we have more time for listening and concentration. And to our great joy, this season we are introduced to new recordings – Medeski, Martin and Wood, Jamie Saft quartet and Jason Lindner with a new album by his band Now vs Now. Innovation has always been the best approach to music. To dare, to do something, without worrying about how it will be perceived.