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 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 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...
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...
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...
Pianist René Urtreger died on 16 July 2026, in Mortagne-au-Perche, at 92. Most obituaries focus on what happened on the night of 4 December 1957, in a Paris studio, where,...
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...
Natalia’s new album sets her own compositions for string quartet and voice, and it is the product of a fairly unusual route through music — gypsy violin, a decade in a...
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...
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...
Meshell Ndegeocello has never been an artist who stays still, and her new album Synonym confirms it once again. Due October 2 on Blue Note, it may be the most audacious record of...
