Charismatic trumpeter Avishai Cohen launched his exuberant, home-grown band Big Vicious six years ago, after relocating from the US to his native Israel, rounding up players to...
For the first time, Gene used what he calls a live band that he characterized with five key adjectives: funky, electric, musical, fresh and soulful. Indeed, on his latest...
Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called “a shining light” among today’s jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, his fourth ECM album as a...
Jenny Raharivola | The Family the new EP, released March 06, 2020, delves deeply into life’s journey. A complexity of trials, tribulations, personal doubts but ultimately...
Pianist Kenny Barron & Bassist Dave Holland Reunite for First Trio Recording with Drummer Johnathan Blake. Titled “Without Deception” the album features the two NEA Jazz...
Pablo Held’s new album, Ascent, his second for Edition Records, is the first collaboration between his long-running trio and the Brazilian guitarist Nelson Veras. Following a...
“He’s at the highest level of our music—you can’t get any higher than him,” says Wynton Marsalis when speaking of the legendary saxophonist, composer, and bandleader...
The new album by vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy is a reflection of her very own understanding of jazz – with pieces by Swedish composers on the one hand, and of American jazz and...
In 2019, the Melbourne (Australia) based composer and arranger Vanessa Perica, assembled a formidable lineup of many of Australia’s leading jazz musicians to record her long...
Peter Fessler, of Canadian-German descent, is probably the only jazz musician from Germany who has ever had a global hit. As the singer of Latin jazz band Trio Rio (1983–1987),...