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Blue Note Records Celebrates 80th Anniversary In 2019

The Legacy Of Legendary Jazz Label Will Be Honoured With Several New Vinyl Series, A Documentary Film, Special Global Live Events And More. 80 years ago on January 6th 1939, a...

Martin Luther King at the Berlin Jazz Fest in 1964

Update: To celebrate Martin Luther King day we’ve decided to republish this article first published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK on...

Jason Miles reports from Jazz Congress 2019 in New York.

Editors note: Grammy award-winning producer Jason Miles attended this year’s Jazz Congress 2019 in New York.  All of our team really appreciate Jason and his support. ...

Celtic Connections gets significant injection of Jazz in 2019.

Glasgow’s internationally regarded winter festival of folk and roots music, Celtic Connections is getting a significant injection of jazz this year. Pianists Tigran Hamasyan,...

Adrien Brandeis – wins Letter One Rising Stars Jazz Award for Europe Edition 2018

ADRIEN BRANDEIS is a French jazz pianist and composer born in Annecy in 1992. After having studied at the Conservatory of Nice and the Conservatoire de Paris with Robert Persi and...

jazzahead! 2019 – More Youth, and more multinational projects

Plenty of new names, unexpected instrumental combinations, an increased presence of female artists, interesting multinational projects … these are just some of the main...

The Unstoppable Rise of Music Streaming

Data Journalist Felix Richter reporting for the organisation Statistics who study portal statistics from more than 22,500 sources says that according to Nielsen’s 2018...

Multi Instrumentalist, Jorge Rossy releases “Beyond Sunday”.

Jorge Rossy is best known as the drummer from the original Brad Mehldau Trio however his new album titled “Beyond Sunday” features him as a vibraphonist. Joining him...

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet – The Critics’ Choice on Tour in Europe

On many best of the 2018 lists of jazz critics, Ambrose Akinmusire’s release “Origami Harvest” (Blue Note) is another addition to the crop of jazz greets both street rappers...

The Unstoppable – Barbara Thompson MBE

Barbara Thompson writes and performs for the saxophone like no other. With love and unwavering respect, she cherishes the instrument when needed, challenges and pushes it beyond...

Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks

Visionary composer, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith brings his multi-media presentation of America’s National Parks to The Appel Room for one night only on...