Natalia’s new album sets her own compositions for string quartet and voice, and it is the product of a fairly unusual route through music — gypsy violin, a decade in a...
Jazz in Europe is expanding its playlist curation, and I’m delighted to welcome a genuine expert in the genre to lead one of our most ambitious additions. Over the past year...
Nine cities, nine collaborators, one trumpet threading through all of it — Nils Petter Molvær’s “Be Quiet” is less a conventional album than a travelogue in...
Six years after his debut Roamin’, Danny Keane returns with a record shaped by an unusually rich apprenticeship. In the interim he has toured and recorded with Mulatu...
Four tracks lead this week’s update to our New Jazz Releases playlist, and between them they cover most of the emotional range jazz is capable of — reverence, restraint,...
Macedonian-born, Graz-based saxophonist and clarinetist Hristijan Risteski released the first single from his debut album today, and it’s the kind of introduction that tells you...
Meshell Ndegeocello has never been an artist who stays still, and her new album Synonym confirms it once again. Due October 2 on Blue Note, it may be the most audacious record of...
I’ve been awear of John Donaldson’s as a pianist for the better part of two decades, mostly at a distance, catching him in sideman credits and the occasional trio...
Young talents and international jazz stars – they all play at this worth to visit festival on the beautiful island of Madeira. For the fifth time now, the Funchal Jazz Festival...
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...
