On September 30, 1963, American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his quartet gave a small concert in the TV studios of Radio Bremen. The concert was broadcast on ARD in the spring of 1964 as part of the popular "Domino" series.

Now the original tapes have resurfaced in the station's archives. Sensational! The former sideman of Charles Mingus, Gil Evans and Quincy Jones had come to Germany not only with his successful Mercury albums "Domino" and "We Free Kings" in his luggage, but also with a great accompanying combo: Swiss pianist George Gruntz, known for his work with Klaus Doldinger, Louis Armstrong and Don Cherry, shone with his sensitive playing. French bassist Guy Pedersen (who has played with Baden Powell, Michel Legrand and Quincy Jones, among others) and Swiss drummer Daniel Humair (who has played with Joachim Kühn and Jean Luc Ponty, among others) provided the rhythm.

Roland Kirk, who went blind at the age of two, mainly played the tenor saxophone and two historical variants of the saxophone, namely the Manzello (actually a modified King saxophone) and the Stritch (actually a Büscher eB alto saxophone in straight form, equipped with additional keys for one-handed playing and an enlarged bell). He often played these three instruments at the same time and demonstrated this art during the recordings in the Bremen studio.

The director of this memorable performance was none other than Mike Leckebusch, and this Domino production is said to have been his first directorial effort. Leckebusch went on to make German television history with his shows "Beat-Club" (from 1965) and "Musikladen" (from 1972).

Better Git It in Your Soul

Sister Sadie

There Will Never Be Another You

Tenderly

Three in One, Without the Oil

Blues for Alice

Domino (take 2)

I Remember Clifford

Evening Light

Do You Care?

Blåskjerdingen

Voggesong

Talk It All Through (feat. Lars Martin Vik, Svein Dag Svendsen & Svein Solheim)

theme tune to my podcast, a bit unorthodox but i dig the chart i cooked up

Gustave

We dive into Mark's vinyl crates again to play jazzy sounds from 1939 through to the present day. Soviet Bloc jazz, Brazilian grooves, classic Be-Bop and even some jazz hip-hop. Join him for another great selection.

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Cool Struttin’ - Mark Lancaster — 27 September 2025

Ten years ago, when i started to appreciate jazz, i decided to turn "Sandy Won't Speak" into a 3/4 jazzy waltz rhythm... I've done it in a modern tracker, Renoise... but without significant and very detailed tweaking to give it variations and nuances, the execution is too mechanical... Well, now, 10 years after, and 30 years after the original composition, thanks to a mp3 render of my original Renoise file and an AI music model, it has been properly executed. 30 years in the making, a slow cook.

Waltz for Sandy

In corridors of graphite light I trace a stuttered frame
Shadows flicker gently like a code beneath the flame
Questions drift in mosaics on an empty moving plane
I walk between the chords of clarity and doubt again
The skyline mirrors patterns in a mind with shifting grids
Each tile a restless cadence where the meaning softly bids
A tremor hides below the hush where silent thoughts collide
Searching for the blueprint drawn in someone else’s mind

Here the tempo bends and rhythm leans to doubt
Edges sharpen slowly while the frame turns inside out
Undercurrents tighten waiting for release
Tension holds its center poised between unease

Mirror of the modern pulse revealing hidden beats
Through woven lines of thought that echo in the streets
Hovering between the knowing and the blind reprise
Suspended in the form where contradiction lies
Through labyrinths of shifting moods we trace the frame
Sophisticated tension whispering a name

City lights scatter like notes on a score I barely read
Rhythm pulses steady underneath the steel and speed
Impressions move like fragments of a half-remembered creed
I search the harmonic undercurrent for something true to lead
Between the lines the bass walks soft in a shaded groove
The drums speak broken meters in a restless, forward move
And in the space between I chase the shape the fractures leave

In the mirror’s crack I see the center of my doubt
A suspended key unresolved and reaching out
Blueprint shifting slowly as the old lines fall away
I lean into dissonance to light another way
Waiting for the moment forms return and re-array

Mirror of our modern pulse revealing what we hide
In tangled webs of shifting moods we learn to ride
Balancing the known against what we cannot grasp
Architecture of thought in a tightening clasp
Through crooked halls of meaning shaped by unseen hands
Sophisticated tension guides our future strands

Blueprint left unfinished and the puzzle still at play
We stand amid the fragments ready for a new day

Mirror of our modern pulse

The entire sound is in my hands. I write cyber poetry, produce, and compose every track ready for Immersive 3D. Every beat is crafted for spatial and next-gen headphones.
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For 30 years I kept unfinished demos to myself, never letting them out. Now I finish what I start and release it the moment it’s alive.

I use every tool available, human or machine, as an instrument.
Technology doesn’t replace creativity. It expands it.

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MIG also works as a service provider for foreign labels in physical and digital distribution and production. Affiliated with this is the “Edition MIG” in cooperation with the Meisel music publishing.

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