The multi award winning pianist, vocalist, composer, producer, founder of the award winning not for profit organisation Women in Jazz Media – and our very own senior writer,...
Nduduzo Makhathini was born in 1982 in uMgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Growing up in a Zulu cultural environment, he was introduced early to the connection between...
It takes someone like trailblazing Arooj Aftab to fill the Stavros Niarchos Hall on a Monday night in Athens. The highly anticipated concert already gained traction thanks to...
Small jazz groups with two saxophonists are a rare treat, and this is what you get with Joe Sanders’s “Parallels” featuring Logan Richardson, Seamus Blake, and Gregory...
Soul jazz and Spiritual Jazz are subgenres in jazz since the 1950s: for soul jazz it passes from Ray Charles to Jimmy Smith or Gary Bartz, who in particular also crosses over into...
Italian multi-instrumentalist Mauro Sigura is set to embark on a European tour, showcasing his latest project DUNIA alongside collaborative performances with Migrantes and the...
George Cables has been active as a post-bop jazz pianist playing with some of the best musicians of his generation, and a number of significant jazz forebearers, since the early...
The far-eastern edge of Europe gets scant attention when it comes to jazz, though there a few exceptions. This is the case of Tigran Hamasyan, who was born in Armenia (in 1987),...
Saxophonist Nubya Garcia has represented the new sounds and look of the London jazz scene for the past five years. And one could bet that her niche in the scene is bound to become...
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis (born 1960) is from New Orleans of the Marsalis clan. He is the younger brother of jazz trumpeter Wynton, and elder brother of jazz trombonist...
Alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius is set to embark on a tour across Spain, the UK, and Ireland with his new quartet. The tour, which begins on October 19, 2023, in Madrid and...