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...
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, announced today that they will be releasing “In Harmony”, a stunning set of previously un-released live performances by Roy Hargrove on trumpet and...
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...
Conceived by Jammincolors in Brussels, “The Music Room” is a novel way of bringing music and the positive energy of the musicians to audiences. It’s neither an...
New Zealander Lucien Johnson releases his first digital album, Wax///Wane on April 1st. The saxophonist, who spent much of his twenties living and working in and out of Paris, has...
To mark his 50th birthday, French alto saxophone player, Pierrick Pédron entered the studio to record not one, but two albums. The first album titled “Fifty/Fifty New York...
There is no doubt that the last 12 months have been a challenging year for the music industry, in fact, 2020-21 will not only go down in history as the year of the pandemic but I...
Last night, at a largely digital ceremony, the winners of the 63rd annual Grammy Awards were announced. Below you’ll find a list of the albums nominated in the jazz...
Last year we published an extensive interview with composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider. During the interview we spoke a great deal about her latest album “Data...
The date was 20th of January 2020 and Fay Claassen, together with 30 of the Netherlands top musicians, took to the stage at Rotterdam’s Lantaren Venster to present...
