From the time he was 11, Max Raabe was hooked. The haunting and whimsical songs of 1920s and '30s Berlin kept him mesmerized via shellac records and movies, including American films translated into ...

For many, mention of a “jazz concert” in the 21st century immediately brings to mind Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Yet, in the golden age of the jazz orchestra — the big ...

Created in the late 1980’s by German musician Max Raabe and some of his fellow musical students who wanted to perform music of the period, Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester was born. To this day you ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...