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Interview: maTrigal, Finding Their Own Mother Tongue

maTrigal’s debut full-length, Between Homes, is out tomorrow on Svitzer Music: ten tracks built from cello, acoustic guitar and drums that somehow keep sounding like more...

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Scotland Sparkles with Jazz From The Netherlands

The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is one of the largest jazz and blues festivals in Europe and consistently showcases an incredible array of talent from across the world....

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Łukasz Droździel and the Making of a Polish Jazz Festival Brand

Łukasz Droździel left Poland as a teenager and spent the next thirty-five years building a life elsewhere: high school, university and graduate school in the United States, then...

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AI and the Music Business – The Bots are Coming for the Landlords

Editors Note: This is part 1 in a three part series on AI in the music business. Having spent fifty years in this business, I’ve been witness to most of the seismic changes...

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Festival Review: Ystad Jazz Festival 2026

Listening to four or five concerts in a single day is exhausting. Even when a festival’s setting is picturesque, you still spend the better part of the day inside a darkened...

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New Release Friday: This Week’s Playlist Updates

This week’s selection runs from a saxophonist’s second single through a nonet album rescued from label limbo, a horn-driven record built around displacement and migration, and...

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Hristijan Risteski releases 2nd Single “Summer,”

Hristijan Risteski releases “Summer,” the second single from his debut album Waters Dance, tomorrow — a change of pace from “Coming Home” that gives a...

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AI in Music: Follow the Money, Not the Press Release.

Many readers will already have seen the headlines. Generative AI is flooding the streaming platforms, on Deezer alone, AI-generated tracks now account for as much as half of all...

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Ola Onabulé & The Hazelrigg Brothers
It's Never Over - New Album out 14 November

It's Never Over is an unique album showcasing Ola Onabulé in a small acoustic setting together with George and Geoff Hazelrigg. The albums seven originals and masterful interpretation of Prince's "Condition of the Heart" reveal a fresh, spontaneous dialogue and profound artistry.

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Interview: maTrigal, Finding Their Own Mother Tongue

maTrigal’s debut full-length, Between Homes, is out tomorrow on Svitzer Music: ten tracks built from cello, acoustic guitar and drums that somehow keep sounding like more than three instruments. I reviewed the record for...

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Interview: Emma Rawicz

Featured Interviews • Interviews • Winter 2026

At just 23 years old, London-based saxophonist and composer Emma Rawicz has already achieved significant recognition on...

Nabou Claerhout: Navigating Identity, Expression and Renewal.

Featured Interviews • Interviews • News • Winter 2026

Trombonist and composer Nabou Claerhout’s star is firmly on the rise as she shines a very welcome and much needed...

Dave Stapleton – Edition Records

Featured Interviews • Interviews • Winter 2026

An in-depth interview exploring the growth of a leading independent jazz label and its founding artist’s vision....

ED PARTYKA: on legacy, leadership, and creative evolution

Featured Interviews • Interviews • Winter 2026

I’ve been planning to interview Ed Partyka for some time, and the recent release from the Zurich Jazz Orchestra in...

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SADA
New Album, Echoes of Maqam

The German - Syrian band SADA will release their Debut album "Echoes of Maqam" on Neuklang Records in the Autumn of 2026.

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Festival Review: Ystad Jazz Festival 2026

Listening to four or five concerts in a single day is exhausting. Even when a festival’s setting is picturesque, you still spend the better part of the day inside a darkened...

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CD Review: Lucy Woodward, I Need to Roam

Lucy Woodward’s new album “I Need to Roam” is a record that refuses to sit still, and it’s better for it. Where her 2024 release with The Rocketeers leaned...

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CD Review: Tony Joe White & Flying Mojito Bros, The Swamp Fox

A colleague mentioned this record to me almost in passing a few weeks ago, and I’m glad I went looking for it, because The Swamp Fox is one of the stranger and more...

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CD Review: Nils Petter Molvær, Be Quiet

Nine cities, nine collaborators, one trumpet threading through all of it — Nils Petter Molvær’s “Be Quiet” is less a conventional album than a travelogue in...

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CD Review: Danny Keane, Kinesis

Six years after his debut Roamin’, Danny Keane returns with a record shaped by an unusually rich apprenticeship. In the interim he has toured and recorded with Mulatu...

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Hristijan Risteski announces new album

Macedonian-born, Graz-based saxophonist and clarinetist Hristijan Risteski released the first single from his debut album today, and it’s the kind of introduction that tells you...

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CD Review: John Donaldson, We Were Together, I Forget the Rest

I’ve been awear of John Donaldson’s as a pianist for the better part of two decades, mostly at a distance, catching him in sideman credits and the occasional trio...

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CD Review: Richard Spaven, Light of Day

Richard Spaven has spent twenty years making other people’s music groove harder, and Light of Day is the sound of him finally putting that instinct at the centre of his own...

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CD Review: Terje Evensen, Reclusive Mountain

Every so often a drummer-led record comes along that reminds you why this format still has somewhere new to go, and Terje Evensen’s Reclusive Mountain is exactly that kind...

Mons Records

Founded in 1991, Mons records is one of the most innovative German jazz labels with an extensive catalogue of more than spanning the full gamut of the jazz genre and featuring many of the most iconic musicians of the era. Find out more at the Mons Records website.

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