Over the past couple of years a lot of the music crossing my desk has come out of Graz, which is why I was curious to hear “Waters Dance”, the debut album from the...
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...
Edgar van Asselt has today released the video for ‘Captain Cartel’, the opening track of ‘The Gentle Insult’, his album with bassist Jeroen Vierdag and...
One of London’s most exciting venues, Kings Place, presents an inspired jazz season, developing and growing its already significant presence as a major jazz venue in the...
After two years of dedicated hard work and incredible music making, the award-winning J Steps are releasing their documentary and album ‘It’s OK’ on Sept 18th – today....
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...
