Latest News: Jazz
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Recording of the Week,
Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley - Journey To Where 22nd March 2024
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall in 2021, this collaboration between saxophonist and pianist is a charmingly sophisticated affair containing as many pleasingly interwoven musical references as you care to mention.
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2024 22nd March 2024
This week's round-up includes double double bass wizardry, a previously unreleased Alice Coltrane live recording, Kjetil Mulelid's music for ensemble, some rather out-there improvisations from Shiver & Matthew Bourne, and a collection of songs from vocalist Lauren Kinsella.
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Artist Profile,
Happy Birthday, Courtney Pine! 18th March 2024Presto Music celebrates the 60th birthday of British jazz giant and multiple MOBO winner Courtney Pine OBE, CBE.
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Announcement,
Our streaming service turns one! 6th March 2024
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our streaming service, we are giving you the chance to win a year's free subscription.
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Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - March 2024 5th March 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the March 2024 issue include new music from Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer, Empirical, Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Charles Lloyd, QOW Trio, Joel Ross, Youn Sun Nah, John Surman as well as archive releases from Art Farmer, Mike Makhalemele & Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi and The Cliffs.
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Recording of the Week,
FIRE! - Testament 1st March 2024
The raucous Scandinavian trio go back to basics, tearing up the rulebook and starting all over again in the expressionistic fashion they know best!
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 1st March 2024 1st March 2024
Our Round-Up this week presents emotive Finnish jazz, a new turn for the British masters, some Dutch pizzazz and two organists, both alike in dignity but completely opposing in style...
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Artist Profile,
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - The Singing Nun 28th February 2024
On a new recording, the singing Ethiopian nun mesmerises with her hauntingly beautiful piano compositions, deeply rooted in Ethiopian spiritual and folk traditions.
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Recording of the Week,
Joel Ross - nublues 23rd February 2024
On his exceptional fourth album for Blue Note, the vibraphonist explores the ins-and-outs of the blues with the help of a fresh mindset and an equally reflective band.
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 23rd February 2024 23rd February 2024
This week's selection of highlights delivers the new generation of Japanese jazz, young London-based guitar talent, an Italian master, lost takes from a R&B legend and some Danish electronic mania to freak out to!
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Artist Profile,
Austin Peralta's Legendary Spacewalk 22nd February 2024
As a deluxe edition of his magnum opus Endless Planets is released on vinyl for the very first time, we take a look back at the all-too-brief life and career of the visionary American piano prodigy.
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Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - February 2024 20th February 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the February 2024 issue include new music from Ambrose Akinmusire, Joey Alexander, Chick Corea & Orchestra da Camera Della Sardegna, Paul Dunmall, Mary Halvorson, Jasper Høiby, Ethan Iverson, Verneri Pohjola, Anaïs Reno and Julia Werup, as well as archive releases from Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mildred Bailey, Oscar Peterson and Phil Upchurch.
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Recording of the Week,
Vijay Iyer Trio - Compassion 16th February 2024
Exploding with musical ideas that move in all-encompassing harmony with one another, the faithful trio reunite in perhaps the first great release of this year.
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th February 2024 16th February 2024
Our selections this week include some Brighton-based future-soul, Swedish trip-hop vocal jazz, Bulgarian folk dances that call back to the days of classic prog rock and an eerie rendition of Thelonious Monk, performed on theremin.
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Interview,
Anaïs Reno - And So It Goes... 13th February 2024
Having grown up in and around the New York jazz scene, the young (but by no means inexperienced) vocalist shares insight into the making of her new live album for PX Records.
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Recording of the Week,
Mary Halvorson - Cloudward 9th February 2024
The guitarist's third album for the Nonesuch label sees the radical improviser hone her signature brand of free-form jazz into a refined and accessible end result, all the while remaining wildly unpredictable.
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 9th February 2024 9th February 2024
This week we have more Brazilian guitar vibrations, celebratory big band jazz from Doncaster as well as spunky Australian grooves. Some brilliant reworkings of classic jazz repertoire arrive from Sweden, and a repatriated vocalist shines as she takes to the stage once again.
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Artist Profile,
Abdullah Ibrahim - For A Few Dollars More... 7th February 2024
In light of his latest release which, amongst other things, highlights a rapturous performance at EFG London Jazz Festival last year, we take a deep dive into the life and career of the Cape Town crusader.
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Awards,
Jazz at the Grammys - Winners & Nominees 2024 5th February 2024
The results are in! Discover the recipients from this year's ceremony including Best Jazz Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Alternative Jazz Album, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album and Best Global Album.
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New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 2nd February 2024 2nd February 2024
From easy-going smoothness to the raucously avant-garde, our latest-round up contains a different mood for each week of the year so far... featuring sublime Danish vocals, a loose Austrian drummer, an introspective Swede and a fiery American sax player.
