Tony Ozuna recently posed the question in a recent review on this platform “Can a debut album still make or break an artist?”. Well that’s a difficult question...
German-American pianist Benjamin Lackner makes his ECM debut with a quartet consisting of Manu Katché on drums, trumpeter Mathias Eick and Jérôme Regard on bass. Released...
Recorded live at the Barbican during last year’s London Jazz Festival, White Juju is award-winning British saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch’s powerful new work for jazz...
Born in Aachen, raised in Belgium and now living in the Eifel, one of Germany’s most picturesque regions, drummer Olivier Chavet recently released his debut album as a...
Alex Acuña’s musical journey has seen the renowned drummer-percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the...
Drummer John Rae, a former leading light on the Scottish jazz scene, is the force behind New Zealand’s most keenly awaited new jazz album this autumn. Questions in Red is the...
Recorded in August 2021 at Kleine Audiowelt studio, Sandhausen, Germany, “Out Into New” is the latest offering, released through Mons Records, from drummer Dirk Schilgen who...
There are only a few figures in music whose work influences and shapes a genre as a whole. This is definitely the case with the late Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson. With his...
Recently Blue Note Records announced a November 18 release for “Revival: Live at Pookie’s Pub”, a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones’...
German vocalist Franziska Loos makes a highly impressive debut with the release of “Generation Anything”, her first album as a leader. Due for release on 16.9.2022 via German...
It’s often been said the great musicians are often ahead of their time and this could be quite apt when speaking about Saxophonist/composer Marius Neset. There’s...