++ NEWS ++ Video from Palatia Jazz Festival ++ NEWS ++

We played at this years Palatia Jazz Festival in the beautiful Klosterruine Limburg - one of our highlights this year. You not often get the chance to share the stage with David Sanborn, Joey DeFrancesco, Steve Gadd, Trilok Gurtu & Jan Gabarek. Thanks to everybody for a great weekend. And a special Thanx to Mr. Zimmermann and Funk Rocker Film for the video of the song "Volkman's Van" (larger version).

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++ NEWS ++ Special Guest Gunter Hampel ++ NEWS ++

In 2008 it was Gunter Hampel who made us double winner of the Berlin Jazz & Blues Award because he was chairman of the jury. Now we are looking forward to having this great musician with us as our special guest in the Quasimodo Berlin on Sat, 12th of June 2010. You get an impression of how great and funky Gunter Hampel is when you watch this video portrait and even more when you come on saturday.

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++ NEWS ++ Special Guest Torsten Goods ++ NEWS ++

Wow, what a concert in the the Quasimodo. The wonderfull Torsten Goods as special guest on the guitar was just burning. Hands Up for him and for everybody in the crowd. You and especially your amazing shouting made that night very special to us. Let's continue soon!

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++ NEWS ++ Video from the Quasimodo Berlin ++ NEWS ++

A very big THANK YOU to our canadian fan Thomas Kelp who did a great job in filming, cutting and editing a clip from our last concert in the Quasimodo Berlin. And here it is: Somewhere in Sharp Mountain (watch it big). Enjoy!

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow at JAZZ HILFT HAITI ++ NEWS ++

Jazz (&Funk) can help a lot. That's what we wanna show with a concert at the project Jazz Hilft. That's a benefit for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. A lot of concerts will take place for 4 days. Our concert will be on wednesday, 10th of february 2010 at 22:00. Free entrance, all donationswill be given to Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V. and HaitiCare e.V. Become a part of it!

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow Live at Radio BR ++ NEWS ++

Thursday, 7th of january 2010 we were invited to play in the BR4-Show 'Taktlos'. It was a live recording and you can listen to it and watch the Stream of the Bayrischer Rundfunk. Hope you like it.

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++ NEWS ++ Concert Video from Croatia ++ NEWS ++

From our concert at the Liburnia Jazz Festival in Croatia we promised a video. So here it is (large version). Also we updated our official band portrait with cuts from Croatia and also from Jazz Open Hamburg. You will find that one here. Enjoy!

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++ NEWS ++ Special Guest David Friedman II ++ NEWS ++

Thanks to verybody who came to our concert at the Quasimodo Berlin and created such a great atmosphere. Also a very big thank you to David Friedman who really set his vibraphone on fire. We hope to prove this soon with some examples of the live recording we made. Stay tuned for more!

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++ NEWS ++ Special Guest David Friedman++ NEWS ++

A very special Concert ist coming up. Friday, 25th of September 2009 we will play in the Quasimodo Berlin again. But this time the worldwide famous musician David Friedman will be our Special Guest. A premiere!

The great vibraphone player has played with the Who's Who of the international music scene: Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Berio, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, Yoko Ono, Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Johnny Griffin, Ron Carter, John Scofield........ Now it will be a pleasure for us to jazz-funk with him. Get your tickets at the Quasimodo or at your next ticket office.

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++ NEWS ++ Back from Tour ++ NEWS ++

We are back after four unforgettable concerts at the Jazzopen Hamburg, the Unterfahrt in Munich, the Jazzclub Klagenfurt (Austria) and the Liburnia Jazzfestival in Croatia. Now we do finally know how to spell our instruments right in croatian (saksofon, klavijature, bubnjevi & bas). Also it will stay in our mind that we had the pleasure to play with Christian Scott & his quintett including a decent after show party.

There are some nice pictures of Hamburg here und and here. The newest photos you still find in our Blog. Have a look at the press quotes from that tour. And there are some things to come: in the moment we are cutting the tour video and the NDR will present the concert in Hamburg later this year on air.

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow Picture Blog ++ NEWS ++

When we go on Tour it is always a shame that we can't share all the interesting or funny impressions with you. But now we found a solution: In our new picture blog we will keep you up to date with fotos directly from our tours. We hope it is as much fun for you as it is for us!

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow @ Kulturcheck++ NEWS ++

Saturday, March 28th 2009 you will see us together with Gerhard Gschlößl (Sousaphon) @ Quasimodo Berlin. Also because of that the TV program Kulturcheck made a little film about us.

A bigger version you will finde here.

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow goes Sousaphon ++ NEWS ++

Saturday , March 28th 2009 you will see us again @ Quasimodo Berlin. A very special concert because we will be featuring a sousaphone player by the first time. It makes it even more interesting that his name is Gerhard Gschlößl. In the moment he's recognized as one of the important innovators of the european jazz and avant-garde scene. Get your ticket at the next ticket office.

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++ NEWS ++ New Band Portrait Video ++ NEWS ++

Finally we finished producing our new portrait video, including concert scenes, interviews and subtitles. Thanks to everybody who helped making it especially Felix Zimmermann, Catty O'Rourke & Stefan Pohl. Have a look!

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow wins Jazz&Blues Award twice ++ NEWS ++

We are back from our CD-Release-Tour. 12 days, almost 4.000km and 12 fantastic concerts all over Germany and Belgium. Thanks to everyone who supported us. It was great fun. We hope to see you soon.

If you didn't have a chance to come, have a look at our new videos in the galery.

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow wins Jazz&Blues Award twice ++ NEWS ++

Unbelievable! We won the Jazz&Blues Award Berlin 2008! And: we did it not once but twice. First we got the main price of the jury. Members of the jury were the great German jazz musicians Gunter Hampel, Conny Bauer and Matthias Schubert. After that we also got the first price of the audience voting. How fantastic! Thanks to everybody who supported us. Here you'll find a video about the award.

Now we are in the best mood to go on tour. 12 days, 12 concerts all over Germany and Belgium. We hope to see you!

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++ NEWS ++ Mo' Blow plays at Jazz&Blues Award ++ NEWS ++

We are nominanted to take part at the final of this years Jazz&Blues Award. Together with five other Jazz/Funk-Bands we will play the competition on Saturday, 18. Oktober from 20:00 in the Palais of the Kulturbrauerei Berlin. Also Tony Ormesher will come from Liverpool (UK) to play with us. We wanna win. So we will need your help. Tickets cost 10 / 7 Euro. Send us a mail to award@moblow.de and we will put your name on the 10 Euro-List.

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++ NEWS ++ CD-Release @ Quasimodo ++ NEWS ++

Thank you for a wonderful CD-Release in the Quasimodo. All of you and our fabulous guests Tony Ormesher from Liverpool and Franz Bauer made this concert very special for us. Now in only a couple of weeks our CD-Release-Tournee starts. The Video from the Quasimodo you can see on this page soon. And the Quasimodo? Well, we'll be back soon!

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++ NEWS ++ Video of the Jazzfestival Russia ++ NEWS ++

As we promised, here you get our new video cut from our concert in Kaliningard. Have a look!

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you will find the Clip bigger than at the left.

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++ NEWS ++ CD reviews released ++ NEWS ++

We're pleased our new CD is very well recieved. Not only you, but also the press likes the new album. For example the magazine JazzThing likes the "groovy funk sound" and the "inventive and well thought details in the music". Sorry, most of the articels are in German but you find them here anyway.

Don't forget our big CD-Release-Concert on the 12th of September in the Quasimodo in Berlin. Special Guests: Tony Ormesher / UK (git) & Franz Bauer (vib). We're looking forward to that very special night!

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++ NEWS ++ Back from Russian Jazz Festival ++ NEWS ++

We're back from our trip to the Jazz Festival Kaliningrad in Russia. It was just unforgettable - and we're not only talking about the hilarious times in our very special russian sleep wagon. How much the 2.500 visitors liked our music you can see on the photos.

As you can also see in the guestbook what the organizers of the festival let us know: "You were the stars of this years festival. Your energy, talent and style made this a real highlight". Thanks, it was great beeing part of such a excellent festival especially beeing presented right before such a world famous and adorable musician as Richard Galliano. We hope, to be able to show a video of our set soon.

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++ NEWS ++ CD Out & Release Tour ++ NEWS ++

Yeah! Our new album 'Funkatristic' has been released. Order it right here from us or from the 1st of August in the stores and online shop's. After so much work in the studio now we will be back on stage. Please come to our big CD-Release-Concert on the 12th of September in the Quasimodo in Berlin. Special Guests: Tony Ormesher / UK (git) & Franz Bauer (vib). Tickets here. Also we are going on a CD-Release-Tour in Germany, Poland, Belgium & Russia. Sorry not UK this time. Have a look for the dates. And of yourse we wanna know how you like the new album. Please let us know!


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