Last Month ACT Records founder Siggi Loch celebrated his 80th birthday. To mark the occasion ACT published a strictly limited narrative illustrated book “A Life in the...
Ruby Turner MBE has been captivating audiences around the world for many years. Her first solo album in 1986 ‘Women Take Up All the Sky’ had producers including Womack and...
7 Virtual Jazz Club continues its worldwide search for emerging and under-recognized creative musicians of all ages and backgrounds. For the 2020 edition, there are new prizes and...
As I’ve probably written in every single article, music is an incredible journey that can take us in unexpected places. Normally we discuss Jazz here but in this case,...
Trumpeter, Ambrose Akinmusire is one of the most original and poetic musicians of the current generation. Quoting directly from his biography Ambrose “… aspires to create...
Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp is saved! Due to the corona crisis, the festival in the Belgian city could not take place in August. The authorities have agreed to a festival in which...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Charlie Parker’s birth. It’s impossible to imagine the evolution of jazz and modern music in general without the indelible influence...
In a recent interview with Bob Mintzer in the Winter 2020 edition of the Jazz In Europe magazine, Bob Mintzer spoke at length about the Yellowjackets collaboration with...
Based in Frankfort, Kentucky, Sharon Matisoff is an award-winning representational artist who paints in the Impressionism/Realism style. Matisoff has spent a lifetime painting a...
Hi, Nigel J. editor-in-chief at JazzInEurope.com Welcome to the New Jazz Focus Video Series. Each month in this series I will be making comments and shining a spotlight on a...
Sometimes meeting our heroes can be dangerous. When I first started my career in professional football, I was a teenager and everything seemed to be magnificent. Suddenly I was...
