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Lavery are a painterly eight-piece from Dublin, freshly formed in 2023, with a single What I Want and the a three- track EP Jade Garden behind them. Their confident EFG London Jazz Festival debut at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, was [...]
This year JazzFest Berlin marked its 60th anniversary with an outstanding programme and a couple of special strands to mark the anniversary. These celebrations focused on the Berlin community, in particular on that in the Moabit district, an area in [...]
A dreadful tragedy cut short the Pancevo Jazz Festival, held in a town north of Belgrade, Serbia. Three days of national mourning were declared in the region after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in the city of [...]
“What makes Denmark so special…I’d say, that it is the people!” Vocalist Jo Harrop has just enjoyed a trip to Denmark for the Jazzy Days Festival. She writes: I was invited over to play in Denmark at a festival in [...]
In Jazz & The City’s first few years after 2000, it was just a festival like many others. Some local musicians would play the smaller halls, a few stars would grace the better-known venues. It was something like the Salzburger [...]
This was the 21st edition of the festival which is run by the Plages Magnetiques organisation in Brest. The organisation and the festival was built up successfully by the always energetic Janick Tilly, but she stepped down earlier this year to [...]
This 3-day event was a meeting of 10 musicians, where five from the UK were invited to work with five musicians living in Portugal, as part of the annual festival organised by Jazz ao Centro Clube Coimbra. The event’s imaginative [...]
Berlin, Berlin, we’re on our way to Berlin!(*) Every autumn we go to the jazz festival, which was considered for a long time the most important festival in Europe, if not the world. In its early days it was closely [...]
Bernd Zimmermann and Susanne Pohlen’s New Colours Festival is now in its third year. The promoters – who also present the monthly series FineArtJazz – are determined to show that Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr does have interesting things to offer, [...]
Hudson Hall almost wasn’t here. The arts organisation and venue is housed at the historic Hudson Opera House, constructed in 1855, initially as Hudson’s city hall. In 1975, the last cement plant shipped out of town and neglect staked its [...]
