Ola Onabulé & The Hazelrigg Brothers It's Never Over - New Album out 14 November
It's Never Over is an unique album showcasing Ola Onabulé in a small acoustic setting together with George and Geoff Hazelrigg. The albums seven originals and masterful interpretation of Prince's "Condition of the Heart" reveal a fresh, spontaneous dialogue and profound artistry.
Munich vocalist and composer Kilian Sladek releases “All Yours”, the second featured-guest single from his forthcoming album Colorblind, today. The track features trumpeter,...
I’ve been keeping half an eye on the Jazz Cats series since its first volume, mostly because Lefto Early Bird has never been a curator who waits for consensus to catch up...
Karel Eriksson has spent the better part of a decade building Sound Pollution Eclectic into one of Vienna’s more stylistically restless bands. With The Path North, released...
Tobias Hoffmann’s debut as a bandleader is back where anyone can hear it. Six years after it first appeared on the Austrian label Alessa Records, Retrospective has found a...
When Albert Castiglia’s new album Grits & Glory drops this Friday, it may well be his most direct and politically unguarded record yet. This is blues-rock with its sleeves...
Alexandrina Simeon presents her latest album, QUIET GIRL, at the Harz Classix Festival this November, and she’s already writing the next chapter behind it — new material...
The 56th edition of the Siena Jazz International Summer Workshop kicked off last week, and for the two weeks that follow, this small Tuscan city becomes, once again, one of the...
Four records this week span cosmic jazz, jazz-funk homage, and two albums I flagged last time round that are still very much worth your attention. Here’s what’s...
Lili Maljic takes her debut album on the road this autumn, and she is already working on a second one built from original material rather than standards. The Serbian-born,...
Pianist René Urtreger died on 16 July 2026, in Mortagne-au-Perche, at 92. Most obituaries focus on what happened on the night of 4 December 1957, in a Paris studio, where,...
“Apparently, I have a very expensive new shirt that keeps developing new patterns,” laughed drummer Emil Brandqvist, referring to the unique conditions at this...
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...
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,...
Ineza’s debut album "IBUKA" is a deeply personal jazz journey blending neo-soul, folk, and heartfelt storytelling. Featuring rich harmonies, emotive vocals, and vibrant band interplay. Out now on CD, vinyl, and streaming.
