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.
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is one of the largest jazz and blues festivals in Europe and consistently showcases an incredible array of talent from across the world....
Łukasz Droździel left Poland as a teenager and spent the next thirty-five years building a life elsewhere: high school, university and graduate school in the United States, then...
Editors Note: This is part 1 in a three part series on AI in the music business. Having spent fifty years in this business, I’ve been witness to most of the seismic changes...
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...
This week’s selection runs from a saxophonist’s second single through a nonet album rescued from label limbo, a horn-driven record built around displacement and migration, and...
Hristijan Risteski releases “Summer,” the second single from his debut album Waters Dance, tomorrow — a change of pace from “Coming Home” that gives a...
Many readers will already have seen the headlines. Generative AI is flooding the streaming platforms, on Deezer alone, AI-generated tracks now account for as much as half of all...
Editor’s note: Christoph Giese attended the opening weekend of Jazz w Ruinach. The festival continues through August 15 in Gliwice and Katowice. The festival’s name...
Having barely survived the “inner city blues” (more on that later) of intense London temperatures during three successive heatwaves it was with some relief to revisit...
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...
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...
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.
