Munich-born singer-songwriter Laura Grandy has released her debut album "All These Feelings" on November 29, 2024, through Whales Records. The album captures a wide range of emotions, reflecting Laura Grandy's international experiences and personal journey.

“At the age of 24, Quincy Jones arrived in Paris in 1957 to study with the great masters Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. But tuition was expensive for the son of a modest Chicago family...

His musical genius enabled him to finance his studies in a very stylish way. Quincy worked as an arranger, conductor and musician, notably in the Barclay studio.”

“In the 1920s, recording conditions were a real challenge for musicians !

Sound was captured by a simple bell and etched directly onto wax. To balance volumes, the most powerful instruments had to move further away(…)”

“So you haven’t heard about the birth of Scat ?

Legend has it that in 1926, during the recording of Heebie Jeebies,(…)”

I’m Mattia Galeotti and I’m a drummer from Firenzuola, in the mountains between Florence and Bologna. I started to play drums at the music school of my hometown then I went to study jazz drums at the bachelor program of Siena Jazz University, where I graduated last year.

I’m lucky to be the drummer of Francesca Gaza “Kugelförmigkeit”.

What I generally like to have is a direction, or a sort of fil rouge of any kind. It can be a musical motive, or an instrumentation that I particularly like or a text (which might also then not be used, but be there as a sub-text for me). What I generally do is that I start writing and often I feel stuck because my music indicates a pulse and a time very clearly, which I don’t really like often. So what I do, and most of the times helps me out, is to write a choral without using the piano. Just from the skeleton idea of a harmonic or melodic 3/4 voice piano part, I start imagining that it will be sung by 4 voices from Bach’s time. That often gets me out of the "stuck mode”.

What I like to have, is a little notebook with music paper where I write down small ideas, that seem insignificant, and then after a while I open it and often one of the many ideas pops out and feels right to be used.