On August 28, Out Of Your Head Records releases Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill, a two-disc set led by Marty Ehrlich that brings together...
Friday again, and the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each week with the tracks that have genuinely caught our attention — the ones...
Richard Spaven has spent twenty years making other people’s music groove harder, and Light of Day is the sound of him finally putting that instinct at the centre of his own...
In a Kyiv studio kept alive by a generator through the worst blackouts of the war, Carlo Muscat and a Ukrainian ensemble recorded an album of ballads. It isn’t a protest...
The UK’s only festival dedicated exclusively to Polish jazz returns to London this September, and if the scale of this year’s programme is anything to go by, last...
Every so often a drummer-led record comes along that reminds you why this format still has somewhere new to go, and Terje Evensen’s Reclusive Mountain is exactly that kind...
The concept of ‘hot’ could certainly be viewed from two perspectives at this year’s, fourth edition of fill in – International Jazz Festival Saar in Saarbrücken, in...
Empirical have never been a band to stand still, but even by their own restless standards, Like Lambs: To The Slaughter is a genuine leap. I featured this band on our Autumn 2024...
The music industry – and in particular the jazz industry – is in constant change and evolution, and this has been clear for some time now. In this era of AI and algorithms,...
Friday again, and the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each week with the tracks that have genuinely caught our attention — the ones...
