Like A Jazz Machine cleverly mixes higher profile acts with music of some of the leading and up-and-coming local bands in a five-day festival (I attended days 3 and 4). It takes place in a modern arts complex in Dudelange, [...]
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 [...]
As part of the celebrations of European Capital of Culture in Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region, the beautiful Austrian equivalent of the Lake District, pianist Roberto Magris from Trieste brought together an international group of like-minded musicians (or “long-standing [...]
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 [...]
Musicians are becoming increasingly mobile. More and more, they are no longer based where they were born but move for long periods to other cities and cultures, perhaps reflecting their curiosity to sample new influences and then, like smart chefs, [...]
Opus Jazz Club in Budapest forms part of the Budapest Music Centre (BMC), a centre for contemporary music in general and for jazz in particular. Built just over a decade ago, there’s a concert hall, rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, [...]
For too many years it has been too easy for us in the far west of Europe to undervalue the jazz scene in Romania. Under communism, jazz bubbled somewhat underground, but it has now been blossoming, both in terms of [...]
Gaume Jazz Festival this year celebrated a full return to pre-pandemic sized programme, helped by extending the capacity of its second venue in the park. This is in addition to the village’s church and the small theatre, a small open [...]
Franz Hackl is the mastermind behind the Outreach Festival – this was the 31st edition. His particular skill is in digging for genius and bringing a lively selection of music to the surface. Perhaps, in a way, he is building [...]
Starting immediately after Inntöne finishes, the local energy moves along the road to Passau for its own summer jazz festival running through to the end of August. The opener could hardly have been of a higher profile. With Leo Genovese, [...]
