Thursday, July 19th, 2018
Interviewer Marta Ramon Feature photo © Sergio Lacedonia Salvador Sobral is not a singer but a voice instrumentalist who loves to explore creativity through porous jazz limits. This lively interpreter has domesticated his fame in order to bring to big audiences the real feel of what’s swinging with freedom and no concerns really feels like!
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
Editors note: Maria Schneider continues to add awards to her we deserved tally. Each year, in the USA, the National Endowment for the Arts bestows the nation’s highest honor in jazz – the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships...
Monday, July 9th, 2018
The drummer, percussion, composer, ethnomusicologist Barrett Martin has played on many Rock, Blues and World Music albums and last year won the Latin Grammy for producing Brazilian singer-songwriter Nando Reis’ album ‘Jardim-Pomar’. He has played with Mad...
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Paul Hanson is one of the world’s best-known jazz bassoonists. Playing an instrument more often associated with classical music, he has managed to clear his own path building a well rounded musical career as a recording and...
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Formed in 1995 the Zurich Jazz Orchestra has rightly earned it’s place among Europe’s top professional Big Bands. From it’s humble beginnings as a rehearsal band and forum for local composers and arrangers the band has constantly...
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
The North Sea Jazz Festival is one of those Iconic European festivals that has gone along way in defining the genre. Founded in 1976 by entrepreneur Paul Arket the festival is not the oldest jazz festival, however...
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Italian guitarist Jan Sturiale embarks on a European tour this summer to promote his latest album titled ‘Roadmaps’. The album is Sturiale’s fourth album to date and is very much shaped by a healthy mix of original...
Friday, June 8th, 2018
American singer Hailey Tucks story sounds like something that has come out of a F. Scott Fitzgerald book tinged with a little Christopher Isherwood. Born in Texas, she moved to France, drawn to the romanticism of the...
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Where are all the women in Jazz? They’re here, you just don’t know about all of them. There has been an incredible amount of discussions recently about the lack of women in the Jazz industry – and...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
On May 19th, Kyle Eastwood, bassist, composer and band leader, celebrates his 50th birthday. Brought up in a showbiz family environment (Clint Eastwood is his Dad) and only minutes away from the infamous Monterey Jazz Festival. His...
