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CD Review: Hristijan Risteski, Waters Dance”

Over the past couple of years a lot of the music crossing my desk has come out of Graz, which is why I was curious to hear “Waters Dance”, the debut album from the...

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A Century of Ronnie Scott: Barbican Concert Leads Celebrations

After a year of centenaries for Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Tony Bennett, the next one belongs to London. Ronnie Scott was born in Aldgate on 28 January 1927, and on his 100th...

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SADA release 1st in a series of live recordings.

SADA’s live recording of ‘Kaleidoscope’ is out today on all streaming platforms, and it opens this Friday’s update of the Jazz In Europe New Jazz &...

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Edgar van Asselt releases first video from new project.

Edgar van Asselt has today released the video for ‘Captain Cartel’, the opening track of ‘The Gentle Insult’, his album with bassist Jeroen Vierdag and...

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Kings Place: Jazz for everyone

One of London’s most exciting venues, Kings Place, presents an inspired jazz season, developing and growing its already significant presence as a major jazz venue in the...

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J Steps: It’s ok

After two years of dedicated hard work and incredible music making, the award-winning J Steps are releasing their documentary and album ‘It’s OK’ on Sept 18th – today....

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JazzChurFestival, Old city, fresh sounds

Recently I visited Switzerland’s oldest, and rather beautiful, city just for the sole reason – jazz! Even though the two world-famous spa towns of Davos and St. Moritz...

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Caroll Vanwelden releases Shakespeare Revisited

Caroll Vanwelden’s new album, Shakespeare Revisited, is out today. It’s the fourth record she’s built from Shakespeare’s sonnets, and the boldest: after a...

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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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Łukasz Droździel and the Making of a Polish Jazz Festival Brand

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Łukasz Droździel left Poland as a teenager and spent the next thirty-five years building a life elsewhere: high...

Carlo Muscat: That’s About It, and That’s the Point

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In a Kyiv studio kept alive by a generator through the worst blackouts of the war, Carlo Muscat and a Ukrainian...

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...

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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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CD Review: Hristijan Risteski, Waters Dance”

Over the past couple of years a lot of the music crossing my desk has come out of Graz, which is why I was curious to hear “Waters Dance”, the debut album from the...

Festivals • News • Reviews

JazzChurFestival, Old city, fresh sounds

Recently I visited Switzerland’s oldest, and rather beautiful, city just for the sole reason – jazz! Even though the two world-famous spa towns of Davos and St. Moritz...

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Outreach Music Festival: Music on constant rotation

This festival in Schwaz, Tyrol is different. The Rolling Stones in a jazz guise? Yes, why not! Especially when they know how to perform with such wit, as the Hungarian Kálmán...

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Festival Diary: Summartónar in the Faroe Islands

“Where are you going? Where exactly are those islands again? Is there really a festival there that also features jazz?” Those were the questions I was asked before my trip to...

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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...

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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