Eighteen-time Grammy nominee, three-time Grammy winner and all-time guitar great, Larry Carlton established himself from his first recording, A Little Help From My Friends. His studio credits include musicians and groups like Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., Herb Alpert, Quincy Jones, Bobby Bland, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and literally dozens of others. He went on to perform with the Crusaders and then with the multi platinum jazz super group Fourplay. With 30 albums to his credit and having performed on over 100 albums that have gone Gold or Platinum, Larry Carlton has set a standard for artistry that spans three decades.

Murcof, Talvin Singh & Erik Truffaz

Ranjit has recently composed and produced his debut album, Bada Boom ( to be released by Abstract Logix in November, 2010) featuring some of the greatest musicians on the scene today, both in India and abroad. This album is a collection of Ranjit’s latest Jazz Fusion and World compositions with performances by Ustad Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, U. Srinivas, Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison, Wayne Krantz, Dominique DiPiazza, Harmeet Manseta, Taufique Qureshi, Sanjay Divecha, U. Rajesh, Tim Garland, Gwilym Symcock, Ayden Esen and Elie Afif, to name a few.

Giovanni Guidi has been named "Best New Talent" by a jury of 58 journalists and critics in a poll entitled "TOP JAZZ 2007," held yearly by the Italian magazine "Musica Jazz."

Gumbo is something quite uncommon - a pocket brass band. It is a jazz parade band in miniature. A musical fireworks which hovers somewhere between the heavily arranged and the loosely improvised.

fresh sounds, young jazz from Germany. 

Jazzkomplott fills the stage with modern jazz, vibrant grooves and catchy melodies

Louiz Banks

A unique 20 year old singer and multi-instrumentalist who does spell-binding performances through a unique, modern sampling and layering technique

Mateusz is a 23 year old Jazz piano prodigy.

Saskia loves Latin Jazz and it has been a profound influence on her musical vision. She had already garnered much experience in Latin jazz before forming Salsabop playing different genres of Caribbean, Latin and Afro music such as calypso, cumbia, salsa, merengue, soca, kaseko. Salsabop brings a lively mix of these and the newest styles, blended with jazz.