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The UK CLUBNIGHT! at JazzAhead was a highlight of the returned UK presence at JazzAhead this year (*). Having not had a stand or a showcase in recent years, it was such a delight to see artists from the vibrant [...]
What a great little club: fabulous sound and a wonderfully attentive listening audience. Zig Zag is in Friedenau, a residential area about 5km south-west of Berlin’s other top club, the A-Trane which is just by the Ku-Damm and much more [...]
The artistic director for the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2024 was Joe Lovano, the tenor-saxophone titan whose recordings, awards, and posts on the faculties of the world’s most prestigious music schools are almost too long to list. He talks here about [...]
The Hague’s Rewire festival is a trusted bastion of the robustly contemporary that sells out on tickets without selling out on credibility. In its thirteenth edition over three days in twenty venues, headliners included Autechre, Oneohtrix Point Never, SUNN O))), [...]
Separate from his regular Mondays with Morgan column, jazz journalist Morgan Enos reached out to two NYC jazz veterans – saxophonist Vincent Herring and drummer Joe Farnsworth – to discuss their roles in the swinging legacy of Smoke Jazz Club, [...]
Here’s a surprise: a band based in Berlin performing a programme based mainly on the poetry of Wilfred Owen at a club in Vienna… But perhaps no more surprising than the fact that the instigator of a recent Netflix film [...]
REVIEWS OF: Bergamo, located some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan, is a beautiful city for a jazz festival. Or rather cities plural, as the medieval and fortified Città Alta (‘upper city’) located on a hill is very different [...]
With a month to go before jazzahead! 2024, the world’s largest jazz trade fair, 11-13 April in Bremen, it’s definitely time to be looking forward. LJN has been asked to run the UK umbrella stand (*) in celebration of our [...]
