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...
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...
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,...
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...
Meshell Ndegeocello has never been an artist who stays still, and her new album Synonym confirms it once again. Due October 2 on Blue Note, it may be the most audacious record of...
On August 28, Out Of Your Head Records releases Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill, a two-disc set led by Marty Ehrlich that brings together...
Friday again, and the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each week with the tracks that have genuinely caught our attention — the ones...
In a Kyiv studio kept alive by a generator through the worst blackouts of the war, Carlo Muscat and a Ukrainian ensemble recorded an album of ballads. It isn’t a protest...
The music industry – and in particular the jazz industry – is in constant change and evolution, and this has been clear for some time now. In this era of AI and algorithms,...
