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What a messy bunch of disks!
Seems I listened to that stuff during the last 3 months...


Alright... Click here...
to take a closer look at my well-assorted CD collection.
It really looks great, thanks to normalisr.com!

Jo in Concert...

I really love being close to the performing artists. I really love those venues with up to 500 people in the audience, such as Kammgarn in Kaiserslautern, Musiktheater REX in Lorsch, Colos-Saal in Aschaffenburg, Scala in Ludwigsburg, Tollhaus in Karlsruhe .....

Bwoah, incredible: I spent 50 years of my life pretending not to need live gigs. Regarding the quality of music, I still prefer studio albums. However, now I’m totally addicted to feel the flair. To experience some thrilling unique moments. Here’s where I hang around:


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I'm no photographer, but when in concert I like to take a few snapshots. See & click some of my concert photos:


Jan 19, 2012, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden:
Gary Mullen & The Works – One Night Of Queen


Nov 13, 2011, Jazzhaus Freiburg: Tingvall Trio


Sep 24, 2011, Jazz-Initiative Mainz / M8:
Sunna Gunnlaugs Quartet


Aug 4-7, 2011, multiple venues in Ystad:
Richard Galliano, John Surman, Jan Lundgren Trio with LaGaylia Frazier, Lily Dahab, Harold Mabern, Pat Martino, Nat Reeves, Eric Alexander, Johan Norberg & Nils Landgren, Bobo Stenson Trio, Jan Lundgren with Arild Andersen & Peter Asplund & Youn Sun Nah, Stefano Bollani Trio, Erik Lindeborg Trio


May 7, 2011, Kloster Eberbach:
Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble


Apr 9, 2011, Jazzclub Hannover: Marcin Wasilewski Trio


Mar 19, 2011, Colos-Saal: The Watch


Jan 14, 2011, Tollhaus: Carlos Núñez


Jan 6, 2011, Kammgarn: Triosence feat. Sara Gazarek


Nov 14, 2010, Colos-Saal:
Ghost Brigade, Orphaned Land, Amorphis


Oct 18, 2010, Colos-Saal: Pain of Salvation


Aug 8, 2010, Ystads Teater: Jacob Fischer Trio & Francesco Calí


Aug 7, 2010, Ystads Teater: Toots Thielemans


Aug 7, 2010, Ystads Teater: Lars Danielsson & Leszek Możdżer


Aug 7, 2010, Ystad Saltsjöbad: Rigmor Gustafsson


Aug 6, 2010, Ystad Saltsjöbad: Viktoria Tolstoy



Nov 14, 2009, Kammgarn: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh



Nov 1, 2009, Scala: MGT - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ralph Towner & Slava Grigoryan



Oct 9, 2009, Bozar Bruxelles: Keith Jarrett



Nov 21, 2008, Theaterhaus Stuttgart: Charlie Mariano 85


Four isn’t enough...

On Dec 6, 2010, he celebrated his 90th birthday.
Click Dave if you like to know why four isn’t enough.



Guess: What's this?







Music? What the heck is music?

I’m collecting witty quotes about music
> by famous characters of history,
> by contemporary artists,
> by last.fm listeners as you and me.
» Curious about the authors? Follow their links!
» Wanna contribute? Leave me a shout!
In many respects I take the view of John Lennon.
In this compilation he gets the first and the final word.



After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing is as beyond as music.
Nichts ist so jenseits wie Musik.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Music is worth a thousand pictures.
Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte.
Musik sagt mehr als tausend Bilder.

Alex der Segler

Office is like jazz, though without music.
Büro ist wie Jazz, nur ohne die Musik.

Bernd Stromberg

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Buffy Sainte-Marie
picked by Andreas Schoring

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Eckhart Tolle

Without music, life would be an error.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is the harmonious voice of creation, an echo of the invisible world.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Because, when you don’t have the music, you’re going to think too much.
Denn, wenn man die Musik nicht hat, denkt man zu viel.

Helge Schneider

Home is where the music is.

Hugh Masekela
picked by Nobantu

Music is the sound of being touched.

Jessica Müller

As life is the result of evolution, music is the corollary of flawed silence.

Joachim Schoring

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Music is the eye of the ear.

Jules Combarieu

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. Music is one of the gifts given to us to help us move our wings.

Kurt

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

If you want to be happy, be.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

Music is our connection with ourselves. We are attracted to the sounds that harmonize with us.

Music is a force we fail to understand but intuitively seek as it speaks to our conscious souls and our emotional beings.

Music IS!

Mudduck

Music is food for body & soul.

Nico

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, for one another, though dissimilar?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Plato

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp
picked by Roy Hunter

A life without music is like a life without chocolate... unthinkable!

Sarah Collyer

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninov

Music makes my heart smile.

Sunna Gunnlaugs

I love music because when listens I am flying in my mind.

Verónica Cordero

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo
picked by Tari Galathil

No dreams without music.
No courage without dreams.
No doing without courage.
Ohne Musik kein Träumen.
Ohne Träumen kein Mut.
Ohne Mut kein Machen.

Wim Wenders
picked by Ines Hellmich

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As a silent sign of protest, I'm still on strike and do not scrobble on the first day of each month.



Support our planet!
The song Der blaue Planet (the blue planet) was released in 1981 by the east german rock band Karat. It’s a song against nuclear threat. Since then, we fortunately made some progress in nuclear disarmament. But today the threats to our blue planet are huger than ever.

I believe that every individual can contribute to save our planet. And – talking about belief – there is one particular phrase in this song which I really do believe in:
Uns hilft kein Gott, unsere Welt zu erhalten.
No God helps us to preserve our world.

Listen to this song!






Do you like disaster movies?
How would it be like if, at this very moment, an airliner crashed, with 100 passengers on board?

Can you imagine how it would feel ...
... if it happened in ten different countries at the same time?

... if all the passengers were children?
... if this happened every day?
... every hour?
Can you imagine?


Is it a bad film?
Well ok, we don’t lose 240 airliners a day.
But everything else is the plain truth.
It’s the cruel merciless reality.

24,000 children are dying of starvation every day.



What is your contribution to stop this horrible shame?
This is mine:



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I demand: No privacy for organizations!

Organizations have to serve the people.
For the benefit of mankind. You and me.
They are publicly accountable.
They must not lie.
They must not hide any information.
They don’t possess any information.

This page’s information is free.
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