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Orchestra fills venerable church with vivid colour and expression

A 12th century cathedral in the heart of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, will be the scene of an ambitious online project next month featuring the Scottish National Jazz...

“Hope” over Gloom – Tomáš Liška & Invisible World

In these times of a sometimes hopeless horizon for musicians due to the more-or-less cultural shutdown for live performances in clubs and concert halls, a revival of prescient...

Close Together From Afar: The digital and analog jazzahead! 2021

This year jazzahead! celebrates it’s tenth anniversary. Last year the Jazz industry’s largest and most influential international tradeshow and festival was cancelled...

Joey DeFrancesco featured in second Concert in Rudy van Gelder Live Stream series.

In November we announced the first live stream concert broadcast direct from the Rudy Van Gelder Studio. This first concert featured an all-star line up led by Ron Carter and was...

Jazzahead! welcomes first-ever Russian showcase with LRK Trio

It’s April, and for many jazz enthusiasts, that used to mean traveling to Bremen, Germany to attend Jazzahead!, Europe’s largest jazz conference. In that sense, the event...

Bassist, Nick Kerkhoff to release debut Album.

Today sees the release of Dutch bassist Nick Kerkhoff’s first digital single from his up-coming debut album titled ‘Here and Now’. The full album will be...

Pianist Yoonmi Choi releases ‘7 Days’

Pianist and composer Yoonmi Choi is no stranger to the stage, and certainly not to pioneering her unique creative voice. Having performed at at over 300 venues in Europe, playing...

CD Review: Jim Mullen & Tom Remon, Duality

If my memory serves me, well it was around 2005 that I was having lunch with Joe Diorio in a restaurant in Pasadena, California. I went to visit him for his Birthday and later...

JFK Syke present the Insomnia Brass Band in Streaming concert series.

This coming Saturday, 10 April, the “Jazz Folk Klassik” foundation in Syke (Germany) will stream a live concert featuring the Insomnia Brass Band. The concert will be...

Resonance Records release live performances by Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller

Resonance Records, announced today that they will be releasing “In Harmony”, a stunning set of previously un-released live performances by Roy Hargrove on trumpet and...

CD Review, Mareille Merck (Larus) – Fadenschlag

During my own musical journey as a jazz guitarist I once had the luck to meet my absolute hero Wayne Shorter. The meeting happened back stage just prior to his last concert at...