This is the Courvoisier/Halvorson duo’s third collaboration on record, and as with the Jon Irabagon release discussed below ...

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 ...

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

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

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

All four of the albums in this month’s round-up speak of the way in which the powerful forces of personality, intellect and ...

Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was a jazz journalist, prolific writer, critic, entrepreneur, political commentator and pundit ...

Konstantin N. Rega graduated from the University of East Anglia's Writing MA with the Ink, Sweat and Tears Scholarship. Twice ...