Alice Zawadzki‘s sheer stage presence and her assuredness as a musician increasingly blow aside all doubts and questions. Whereas it was surprising to witness them a decade ago when she was getting started, these days the main risk is that [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Chilean vocalist, guitarist, and composer Camila Meza. Her new album, Portal, released 30 May via GroundUp Music, features the core band of pianist and co-producer Shai Maestro, drummer Ofri [...]
Many others will be moved to pay tribute to the great drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo, who died in South Africa on 13 June. A few of the early ones are sampled below. I hardly have words to convey my admiration for [...]
I was in the Büro des Bürgermeisters, the Mayor’s Office upstairs at the Rathaus of the town of Moers, for a solo performance by saxophonist and all-round musical maniac Hayden Chisholm, when a man randomly offered me single malt whisky [...]
I’m very sad to hear that legendary London bassist Dill Katz has passed away. Dill was a really great musician and generous connector of people. I did my very first gig in London with him when I was aged 18 [...]
The first fruit of a new partnership between Moers Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival was the fascinating and mutually enriching XN concert series at Moers 2025—XN for eXperimental eNcounters—with more concerts to come in the future as each alternately [...]
A short handful of months on from the triumphant release of its predecessor (*link to review below), keyboardist, producer and bandleader Joe Armon-Jones drops All the Quiet (Part II). With this second instalment, he completes his most ambitious solo project [...]
A full fifty years since their self-titled debut, Rio jazz-funksters Azymuth release their latest studio recording with only one original member left in the trio, the incomparable electric bass maestro Alex Malheiros, but with their essential group sound entirely intact. [...]
Morgan Enos, who writes the regular Mondays with Morgan column for us, grew up in Southern California. Here is his personal tribute to Brian Wilson: Professionally writing about jazz over the past five or six years has been a clinic [...]
Berlin-based double bassist, composer and bandleader Haggai Cohen-Milo – bassist in the Omer Klein Trio – releases his ambitious new album Gravitations on 13 June. Known for his genre-defying approach, he presents a set of new pieces that re-imagine great [...]
The Winners of the Deutscher Jazzpreis (German Jazz Prize) were announced at tonight’s ceremony in Cologne. Sebastian was at the Awards, and his report will follow. A. AWARDS FOR ARTISTS 1. VocalWINNER: Sera KaloEnjiErik LeuthäuserHeidi Heidelberg 2. WoodwindsWINNER: Ingrid LaubrockCamila [...]
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, Brighton-born drummer Kai Craig has been on a journey that has seen him move from London to Paris to New York, where he is currently based. Now aged 24, his [...]
Silke Eberhard is an alto saxophonist and composer based in Berlin who leads the Potsa LotsaXL, a band formed by some of the key improvisers in Germany. The band’s name is a playful take on “Pestalozzi”, the street on the [...]
“I’ve always been very open-minded!” declares pianist James Pearson cheerfully. And he’s not joking because this extraordinarily versatile musician has over the decades not only led his own jazz trio, long the house band at Ronnie Scott’s, and toured with [...]
Since its founding in 1986 under the direction of François Jeanneau, the Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) has been a cornerstone of French and European jazz. Over nearly four decades of existence, its twelve artistic directors have each typically served [...]
This is the first of AJ’s reports from this years 54th festival in the town of Moers in Northern Germany “The way to live is defiantly, and the way to defy is to live,” said Vijay Iyer at the close [...]
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