Recently I visited Switzerland’s oldest, and rather beautiful, city just for the sole reason – jazz! Even though the two world-famous spa towns of Davos and St. Moritz...
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...
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...
I get very excited when I see a female trombonist. Trombonists in general are still quite rare, but female trombonists used to be like unicorns. Historically, the mighty Melba...
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...
This festival in Schwaz, Tyrol is different. The Rolling Stones in a jazz guise? Yes, why not! Especially when they know how to perform with such wit, as the Hungarian Kálmán...
“Where are you going? Where exactly are those islands again? Is there really a festival there that also features jazz?” Those were the questions I was asked before my trip to...
This week’s additions to New Jazz & More run from a Chicago pianist’s steady drip of late-night singles to a Grammy winner’s jazz reading of grunge, a fully...
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, singer-songwriter, cellist, composer and MOBO-nominee has been taking the world by storm since her debut release in 2019, Road Runner. An astounding artist....
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...
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is one of the largest jazz and blues festivals in Europe and consistently showcases an incredible array of talent from across the world....
