Over the past couple of years a lot of the music crossing my desk has come out of Graz, which is why I was curious to hear “Waters Dance”, the debut album from the...
Recently I visited Switzerland’s oldest, and rather beautiful, city just for the sole reason – jazz! Even though the two world-famous spa towns of Davos and St. Moritz...
This festival in Schwaz, Tyrol is different. The Rolling Stones in a jazz guise? Yes, why not! Especially when they know how to perform with such wit, as the Hungarian Kálmán...
“Where are you going? Where exactly are those islands again? Is there really a festival there that also features jazz?” Those were the questions I was asked before my trip to...
Listening to four or five concerts in a single day is exhausting. Even when a festival’s setting is picturesque, you still spend the better part of the day inside a darkened...
Lucy Woodward’s new album “I Need to Roam” is a record that refuses to sit still, and it’s better for it. Where her 2024 release with The Rocketeers leaned...
A colleague mentioned this record to me almost in passing a few weeks ago, and I’m glad I went looking for it, because The Swamp Fox is one of the stranger and more...
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...
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...
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...
