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...
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...
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,...
Jazz North has announced the latest round of New Northern, its promoter bursary scheme supporting live emerging talent across the north of England, and for the first time this...
Bill Evans changed the way jazz musicians think about harmony, and more than half a century after his death his language still sounds like it belongs to no one else. As a jazz...
I have been listening to Sonny Rollins for most of my life, but it is only now, in the wake of his death on May 25, 2026, that the full weight of his presence feels measurable....
William Ellis’s One LP Project is less an exhibition of photographs than a gallery of LP selves — each one revealed through the record a person cannot live without. The...
London’s newest listening room is putting jazz at the centre of its debut programme. Polygon Portal, a dedicated 360° spatial audio space in Soho, will host Donny McCaslin and...
The Jazz FM Awards 2026, held on Thursday evening at the iconic KOKO venue in London, delivered one of the most memorable nights in the event’s thirteen-year history. With...
Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz division has announced the launch of Everything Jazz, a new digital platform and online store dedicated entirely to jazz...
In 2026, marking 100 years since Miles Davis’ birth, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra presents What’s Not There featuring trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. This project reinterprets...
