Andrew Read – Jazz in Europe

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Kilian Sladek releases “All Yours” featuring Joo Kraus

Munich vocalist and composer Kilian Sladek releases “All Yours”, the second featured-guest single from his forthcoming album Colorblind, today. The track features trumpeter,...

Belgian Jazz, Lefto’s Ear: Jazz Cats Vol 4 Arrives

I’ve been keeping half an eye on the Jazz Cats series since its first volume, mostly because Lefto Early Bird has never been a curator who waits for consensus to catch up...

Karel Eriksson and the Sound Pollution Eclectic

Karel Eriksson has spent the better part of a decade building Sound Pollution Eclectic into one of Vienna’s more stylistically restless bands. With The Path North, released...

Tobias Hoffmann’s Debut Album Gets a Second Life

Tobias Hoffmann’s debut as a bandleader is back where anyone can hear it. Six years after it first appeared on the Austrian label Alessa Records, Retrospective has found a...

Alexandrina Simeon: Writing the Next Chapter

Alexandrina Simeon presents her latest album, QUIET GIRL, at the Harz Classix Festival this November, and she’s already writing the next chapter behind it — new material...

Siena Jazz Kicks Off 56th Edition with Bud Powell Tribute

The 56th edition of the Siena Jazz International Summer Workshop kicked off last week, and for the two weeks that follow, this small Tuscan city becomes, once again, one of the...

New Release Friday, This weeks playlist updates.

Four records this week span cosmic jazz, jazz-funk homage, and two albums I flagged last time round that are still very much worth your attention. Here’s what’s...