When people visit Saffron Hall for the first time, they are always surprised. Brad Mehldau – on the first night of his trio’s six European dates in June – was no exception. The clarity of the acoustic and the way [...]
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 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 [...]
Sebastian writes: I had the very good luck to occupy the chair next to Wally Houser in the saxophone section of the Barnes Big Band (formerly Stan Reynolds Orchestra), and to get to know him over most of two decades. [...]
2025 is the fourth time that Claire Martin has curated a Jazz Festival at Iford Manor near Bradford-on-Avon, with its Grade 1 listed garden and numerous listed structures. The event is increasingly popular and a number of the events are [...]
The EFG London Jazz Festival puts out four monthly press releases each summer, and the second one went out on Wednesday 4 June. The list below gives all the shows so far announced; they will all be on sale from [...]
June 2025 is proving quite a month for Dutch saxophonist and composer Kasper Rietkerk. It has just been announced in Holland in the past few days that he is the winner of the Next Step Award. A new album is [...]
Two strongly programmed European Jazz Festivals – an inaugural Polish Jazz Festival and the seventh Sounds of Denmark Festival – will be taking place in London at the end September(*) : surely, counterweights at other times of the year to [...]
Ian Carr once called Tim Whitehead “one of the most creative, exciting and passionate saxophonists in Europe”. His creative drive runs deep in other ways too. These days it almost goes unremarked that he can take a project all the [...]
The Berlin-based ACT label has just made a surprising announcement, that a duo album from two Americans, trumpeter Theo Croker and pianist Sullivan Fortner, will be released on the label at the end of October. The story here is that [...]
