News – Jazz in Europe

News

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...

Scotland Sparkles with Jazz From The Netherlands

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....

Łukasz Droździel and the Making of a Polish Jazz Festival Brand

Łukasz Droździel left Poland as a teenager and spent the next thirty-five years building a life elsewhere: high school, university and graduate school in the United States, then...

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...

Festival Review: Ystad Jazz Festival 2026

Listening to four or five concerts in a single day is exhausting. Even when a festival’s setting is picturesque, you still spend the better part of the day inside a darkened...

New Release Friday: This Week’s Playlist Updates

This week’s selection runs from a saxophonist’s second single through a nonet album rescued from label limbo, a horn-driven record built around displacement and migration, and...

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...

Jazz w Ruinach: A Festival to discover

Editor’s note: Christoph Giese attended the opening weekend of Jazz w Ruinach. The festival continues through August 15 in Gliwice and Katowice. The festival’s name...

Festival Review: Canarias Jazz Y Mas 2026

Having barely survived the “inner city blues” (more on that later) of intense London temperatures during three successive heatwaves it was with some relief to revisit...

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...