The internet. Mobile phones. Social media. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. A lot's happened over the last 50 years. When pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach first assembled the Globe Unity Orchestra in ...

Alexander von Schlippenbach wrote the first tune on this record as a radio project for the NDR Jazz Workshop in 1974. From his imagination sprung a conjunction of classical music and of jazz (as he ...

Rock fans of a certain vintage have fond memories of the “family trees” drawn by British journalist Pete Frame, which lovingly chronicled the evolution of an act through the musical histories of its ...