The scene – the Vienna Festival of 1964, hitherto regarded as an impenetrable haven of classical music and arts. The music – ...

Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares ...

Mark Gardner was relieved to find no poetry in Garrick's latest excursion but still was troubled by Coleridge Goode's bowing and humming and Shake Keane and Joe Harriot's free forming ...

Weighing in at around 25 minutes, this record is technically an EP, however, the quality of the music presented on these six tracks is superb. Vocalist Germana Stella La Sorsa hails from Italy and ...

As the original drummer in Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and a founder member of smooth-jazz specialists Fourplay, Harvey ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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

Musical inspiration can strike from the most unexpected sources. For Lance Ferguson, the spark behind L’Océan De Toi came ...