Steeped in the seductive and sumptuous sounds that grew out of Germany's Weimar Republic era, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester take the songs, styles, and instrumentation of the 1920s and '30s and bring ...

In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...

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 ...

Think of Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester as a blast from the past, who like to “party like it’s 1929,” as one Minneapolis publication put it. Raabe favors German and American standards ...