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...
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...
On August 28, Out Of Your Head Records releases Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill, a two-disc set led by Marty Ehrlich that brings together...
Friday again, and the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each week with the tracks that have genuinely caught our attention — the ones...
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...
The UK’s only festival dedicated exclusively to Polish jazz returns to London this September, and if the scale of this year’s programme is anything to go by, last...
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...
