It all started in 1969 when musician and radio producer Elias Gistelinck dared to create a jazz festival at a time when pop ...

Musicians from across Germany and around the globe flocked to Cologne for the German Jazz Prize on 13 June – and that’s no ...

Atlantic Jazz Collective featuring Norma Winstone and Joe LaBarbera: Seascape (Alma Records ACD50252) As the title implies, ...

Norwegian Jan Gunnar Hoff’s model of Scandi-fusion sends sparks off the rails for this album, with a quartet whose members ...

With the death of drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo in Cape Town on Friday 13 June a great sadness reverberated through the jazz ...

Among his many activities on behalf of ECM, New Note and Proper Music’s much admired – and missed – David Fraser (1951-2022) produced a regular news letter for the label. For the August 2003 edition ...

All my Christmases came at once this month. I was assigned two new albums for review, they arrived in the same post earlier ...

Now in its fifth edition, the 2025 Sicilia Jazz Festival (22 June – 6 July) offers 85 concerts and involves 385 musicians, ...

In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its ...