Andrew Read – Jazz in Europe

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CD Review: Empirical, Like Lambs: To The Slaughter

Empirical have never been a band to stand still, but even by their own restless standards, Like Lambs: To The Slaughter is a genuine leap. I featured this band on our Autumn 2024...

CD Review: Ilaria Capalbo, The Brightest Sun

Ilaria Capalbo was a new name to me, but it didn’t take more than a few bars for her album “The Brightest Sun” to pull me in. This isn’t what you’d...

New Release Friday playlist additions

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...

CD Review: maTrigal, Between Homes

I first found out about this band, and this recording when drummer Max Schwarz wrote to introduce himself and the trio, telling me “We believe that our upcoming release may...

Jazz North announces New Northern Bursary Scheme

Jazz North has announced the latest round of New Northern, its promoter bursary scheme supporting live emerging talent across the north of England, and for the first time this...

Polish Jazz Festival Returns to London

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...

New Release Friday Playlist Add’s

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...

Eko Roosevelt: The Real Thing

I wasn’t sure what to expect when the Delirious Ears promo landed in my inbox. A reissue of two 1981 recordings by a Cameroonian artist I’ll admit I knew only by name...

CD Review: Evening Sky, Meeting of the Four

I’ve been listening to a lot of records lately that sit well outside any strict definition of jazz, and I have several more of these coming up for review in the weeks ahead....

Kilian Sladek announces new album Colorblind

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

New Release Friday

Once again it’s Friday and that means the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each Friday with the tracks that have genuinely...