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The news that Kit Downes has recently won the Paul Acket Prize, a major prize in the Netherlands, prompted me to check in with him and to get an update about the range of his current projects and albums. The [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer John Escreet. His next album, The Epicenter of Your Dreams, will be released 7 June 2024. It’s a second recorded outing with his trio, which includes double bassist [...]
The steady, resonant, metallic tick of a cymbal; ghostly ripples from a guitar; a distant piano phrase that sounds like a dripping icicle; then softly, a swelling call from a saxophone with a dreamlike vocal quality. It’s an arresting opening [...]
American vocalist and songwriter Maci Miller has released five independent CDs and has had notable collaborations and licensing/publishing deals with Disney, as well as international jazz releases in Asia. She has worked with musicians including Jeremy Pelt, Aaron Graves and [...]
I love the work of Italian, Cuba-born author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), so I was immediately drawn to a new piece of music inspired by his work. He has inspired many artists, composers, and film-makers; wrote libretti for operas by Luciano [...]
Now running for over 30 years, the Kaleidophon festival takes place at the Jazzatelier in the small town of Ulrichsberg in Upper Austria. It is an intimate but welcoming event for free improvised jazz and contemporary music. The venue itself [...]
