Andrew Read – Jazz in Europe

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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...

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...

Soul Meeting: Home Cookin’

Basel drummer and bandleader Lucio Marelli has spent the past few years building Soul Meeting into one of the more interesting soul-jazz projects working out of Switzerland, and...

AI and the Music Business: Ghosts in the Playlist

In my first article in this series, I made the case that AI-generated music is a bigger disruption to the major labels sitting on the largest streaming catalogues than it is to...

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...

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...