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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Apparently, I have a very expensive new shirt that keeps developing new patterns,” laughed drummer Emil Brandqvist, referring to the unique conditions at this...
Young talents and international jazz stars – they all play at this worth to visit festival on the beautiful island of Madeira. For the fifth time now, the Funchal Jazz Festival...
The UK’s only festival dedicated exclusively to Polish jazz returns to London this September, and if the scale of this year’s programme is anything to go by, last...
