A selection of nice Jazz Web Sites

A selection of nice Jazz Web Sites

A selection of nice Jazz Web Sites

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All About Jazz Music, Musicians, Bands & Albums allaboutjazz.com All About Jazz covers the world of jazz music, with interviews of top musicians and bands, albums reviews, free music, videos, photos, and news.

Bill Evans: Explorations

It is not easy to review a masterpiece. The celebrated American intellectual historian Perry Miller was once reduced to muttering something like "What am I supposed to say about the [...]

The Verge: The Verge

The Verge, a Scandinavian jazz-rock band from Norway, has carved a distinct niche with its self-titled debut album. Featuring Emil Storløkken Åse on guitar, Aksel Rønning on saxophone and flute, [...]

Judy Wexler: No Wonder

Judy Wexler imbues every song she touches with a sense of realism, wonder and depth that's ever so rare. An inimitable artist, this celebrated singer adds volumes to each story [...]

Pierre de Bethmann Quartet: Agapé

Pierre de Bethmann's selection as best "Artiste instrumental(e)" at the 2024 Victoire du Jazz Awards (the Grammy Awards' French equivalent) stands as a major victory for the restless and sophisticated [...]

Jakub Paulski: Free' Odde

After the genre-slippery trio album Preludium (Jazz Sound, 2020), which drew from Jimi Hendrix, Bill Frisell, Dmitri Shostakovich and Henrik Wieniawski--modernists all--for inspiration, Polish guitarist Jakub Paulski stretches his compositional [...]

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The Free Jazz Collectivefreejazzblog.org – We are pleased to bring you the Free Jazz Blog’s top album (s). Last week we presented our top recordings, which was drawn from the top 10 lists of the writers

Two from Paul Dunmall

By Gary Chapin Paul Dunmall has been around for a while and has a huge discography. It’s one thing to notice that he started out in the Canterbury orbit, but [...]

Juno3's Proxemics V

This week's Sunday Video is 'Proxemics V' from Juno 3 (the trio Han-earl on guitar, Lara Jones on saxophone and electronics and Pat Thomas - not on piano but on [...]

PainKiller - Samsara (Tzadik, 2024)

By Martin Schray When PainKiller gathered for a session in Brooklyn in the spring of 1991, the world was a different place. New York - especially Manhattan - was in [...]

The Art of Feedback of Stefan Prins and Feedbackorchester

By Eyal Hareuveni For most musicians, feedback is the ultimate nightmare. But not for Belgian, Berlin-based experimental composer and electronics player Stefan Prins whose recent collection of compositions, inhabit, has [...]

Representing the Free Jazz scene in North Macedonia  (Part 2 of 2)

By Irena StevanovskaContinued from part 1, here. Macedonian Free Society – Macedonian Free Society (PMGJazz – 2024)  Macedonian Free Society is a project that brings together many of the artists [...]

UKJazz News

Past Link to London Jazz News – News, reviews, features and comment …News, reviews, features and comment from the UK jazz scene and beyond.

Mondays with Morgan: Douglas Marriner on role in ‘A Complete Unknown’

The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer, composer, and educator Douglas Marriner. Marriner appeared as Johnny Cash’s drummer, W.S. Holland, in the Bob Dylan biopic [...]

Tony Kofi and The Organisation celebrate Lou Donaldson

Here is proof – if any were needed – of the restlessness and need for variety that frequently drives jazz musicians. Saxophonist Tony Kofi’s most recent project was a wonderful [...]

Recorded between the demise of his Trinity and the release of the first Oblivion Express album, this previously unreleased live set shines some unexpected light on what Brian Auger was [...]

Ben Wittman is an American drummer and producer who has performed and recorded with an eclectic roster including Sting, Paul Simon, Paula Cole, and Don Byron. He has produced records [...]

Vuelio, “the leading UK provider of PR & media solutions: media database, media monitoring, press release distribution and campaign analysis” keep a database of 11,000 UK blogs and rank them [...]

Jazz Views Net

www.jazzviews.net www.jazzviews.net. All That Jazz. Purchase CDs, vinyl & downloads directly from. the artists via their website. or chosen online platform. Album Reviews.

Jazz journalist, biographer and novelist Derek Ansell passed away suddenly after a short illness on 13th December, 2024. For many Derek’s erudite reviews for publications such as Jazz Journal and [...]

It with great sadness and a heavy heart that we learn of the death of Martin Hummel. After a year long battle with cancer, Martin passed away in the early [...]

Yazz Ahmed – Continuing the Narrative

Photo credit: Alex Bex On 28 February the long awaited new album from trumpeter and composer, Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise In The Hold will be released on Night Time Stories. [...]

Fabienne Ambuehl – Take Five Q&A

Please can you tell us about your new album and UK album launch? Thrive has been a long time coming, and it is about introspection, belonging and human connection. The [...]

Misha Mullov-Abbado – Take Five Q&A

Photograph by Matthew Johnson Please can you tell us about your new album and UK album launch? My new album “Effra” is my 4th as a bassist, composer and bandleader [...]

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Jazz in Europe – Jazz news from Europe Jazz In Europe Netherlands magazine is a full-colour glossy publication. Produced quarterly, the magazine features interviews with European and International jazz musicians as well as interesting articles related to the world of jazz. Order Now HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE – BAD BOYS OF JAZZ New Album Now Available

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Bandcamp Jazz Bandcamp ist ein Online-Musikdienst und eine Plattform zur Promotion, die sich insbesondere an unabhängige Künstler richtet. Künstler bei Bandcamp besitzen eine veränderbare Microsite mit den Alben, die sie hochladen. Viele Titel können kostenfrei auf der Internetseite abgespielt werden.

a selection of nice jazz web sites

HVV-MAG knapp und würzig vorgestellt über die Jazzwiese hinaus –

Mit »Remnants« hat Lara Sarkissian ein Album geschaffen, das wie ein Tagtraum funktioniert – man driftet hinein, lässt… [...]

Das Label re:lax heißt nicht umsonst so. Auf ihm veröffentlichen re:ni und Laksa Platten, die Techno und Bass… [...]

Holo weiß, wie es klingt, wenn die Nacht ihre langen Schatten wirft und die Stadt zu flüstern beginnt.… [...]

Neuer Jazz von den Balearen – damit ist nicht etwa eine moderne Welle von Jazzheads am Ballermann 6… [...]

Seit rund 40 Jahren forscht der Komponist Suso Sáiz mit elektronischen Klängen. Er gilt als Pionier der New-Age-Musik… [...]

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Jazzfuel Matt Fripp from „I’m British but currently based in Paris, France “ Articles, resources & support for jazz musicians & jazz fans

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Jazztrail New York – EXPLORING THE NEW YORK JAZZ SCENE AND BEYOND

Andre Santos - Vereda

Label: Timbuktu RecordsPersonnel - André Santos: guitar; José Soares: alto saxophone; Francisco Andrade: tenor saxophone; Diogo Alexandre: drums. Portuguese guitarist and composer André Santos shows he’s not afraid to experiment and [...]

Scott Colley / Edward Simon / Brian Blade - Three Visitors

Label: GroundUP MusicPersonnel - Scott Colley: bass; Edward Simon: piano; Brian Blade: drums // Guests - Chris Potter: tenor saxophone; Becca Stevens: vocals; Jana Dagdagan: spoken word; Richard Rood: violin; [...]

Thollem McDonas - Infinite-Sum Game

Label: ESP-DiskPersonnel - Thollem McDonas: piano. British pianist and composer Thollem McDonas, renowned for his rhythmically inventive and genre-defying style, reaches new heights of eloquence in Infinite-Sum Game, a solo [...]

Neil Cowley Trio - Entity

Label: Hide Inside RecordsPersonnel - Neil Cowley: piano; Rex Horan: bass; Evan Jenkins: drums. English pianist and composer Neil Cowley has captured the attention of modern jazz audiences with poetic [...]

Coo - Spiccilegia

Label: Self releasedPersonnel - Kai Winter: alto saxophone; Frau Sportman: double bass, live electronics, toys; Peter Czekay: trumpet; Sanjuro: drums. Spiccilegia marks a confident debut recital from Coo, a chordless [...]

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JAZZIZ Magazine – The Voice of a New Jazz Culture

https://www.jazziz.com THE JAZZIZ CHANNEL. News. Readers R Top Feature. new jazz albums you need to know about …

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Photo Credit: Nicole Nodland Join multi-instrumentalist and Grammy-winning artist Jacob Collier as he sits down with JAZZIZ to explore his boundary-pushing approach to music. From his intricate harmonies to his [...]

Originally published in JAZZIZ December 2008, with permission from Insight Editions Introduction to The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions By Bono  Quincy Jones was too cool for cool [...]

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Jazz Journal Jazz Journal ist ein monatlich erscheinendes britisches Jazz-Magazin, das seit 1948 erscheint und damit eine der ältesten heute noch erscheinenden Jazzzeitschriften überhaupt ist. Sitz ist in Loughton in Essex. Ein Schwerpunkt ist Mainstream Jazz. Seit 2009 ist die Zeitschrift mit Jazz Review vereinigt.

Claiming that “most jazz fans would struggle to name more than a few queer jazz musicians throughout the entire genre’s history”, the London-based LGBTQIA+ collective Queer Jazz aims to “amplify [...]

Among the notable events at Ronnie Scott’s January to March are Eliane Elias, Marius Neset, Dave Douglas, Billy Harper, John Scofield and Bill Evans’ Vans Band. This month, 25 January, [...]

Jazzahead, the trade fair held each spring in Bremen, Germany, says it has “always had the mission to track down and to help people discover outstanding bands – increasingly to [...]

Martin Speake, the renowned British saxophonist at the centre of a racism row at Trinity Laban conservatory in south London, has resigned from the college after 22 years and is [...]

Having wrapped up last year’s programme with a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Christmas-flecked material, courtesy of the captivating Alan Barnes Octet, Chichester Jazz Club kicked off 2025 with two foot-tapping [...]

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From Madrid, jazz, free improvisation and cacophony Search for: aJazz Noise’s picks of – Bit of a miserable year, 2021. Lots of enthralling music and new sounds, mind you. Worth focusing on that for.

So, 2024… an entire year gone by with no aJN reviews posted (Daily Tunes series still going strong, though). There Continue Reading [...]

As the world continues to crumble around us, 2023 nevertheless saw the release of a ton of fascinating sounds. Not Continue Reading [...]

This is heavy… an atmospheric, elegiac, yearning, defiant, soul-scrubbingly cathartic, harshly beautiful suite of doom, noise, metal and indie esoterica. Continue Reading [...]

A.MAIAH is the nom-de-music of guitarist-composer Asier Pérez Basterra. Previously featured on aJN’s 12-ish Guitar (and-only-guitar) Albums In The Last Continue Reading [...]

Welcome to the electronic forest… I first found out about Koshiro Hino’s music through last year’s KAKUHAN duo with Yuki Continue Reading [...]

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Best of Jazz Bestofjazz.org aims to help its visitors discover amazing jazz records. To do so, we review all the new jazz releases that we believe are worth your time. We also create monthly selections of jazz albums to be released in the coming days or weeks. This way, you will always be up to date with the newest releases and informed on what to wait for.

The following selection is our definitive “Best Jazz Albums of 2024” list. The selection is divided into albums featuring solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, and larger ensembles, with three selections per category, for a total of 18 [...]

The following selection is our definitive “Best Jazz Albums of 2024” list. The selection is divided into albums featuring solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, and larger ensembles, with three selections per category, for a total of 18 [...]

Wrecks is a duet album by David Maranha and Rodrigo Amado. It was recorded at Escola do Largo in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 4th, 2023, during a special evening dedicated [...]

Contemporary jazz has seen numerous artists taking it by storm, but a handful of them have been around for decades and crowned for being remarkable and distinctive. Guitarist and composer [...]

In this post, we highlight the Best Jazz Albums of 2012—each one offering a unique experience that has made a significant impact on the world of jazz. Rather than ranking [...]

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Radiohörer – RADIO – UND MEDIENTIPPS FÜR NEUE MUSIK, JAZZ, FILM, KONZERTE UND HÖRBARES

Das Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin unter der Leitung von Anna Skryleva spielt Werke von Younghi Pagh-Paan, Olga Neuwirth, Robert HP Platz [...]

Wenn zwei unerschütterliche kreative Kräfte bei einem geplanten Gespräch aufeinandertreffen, kann alles passieren. Als Patti Smith David Lynch interviewte, waren [...]

Von Rüdiger Görner (NZZ). Mit seiner Suite «Die Planeten» wurde Gustav Holst zum Vater der Science-Fiction-Musik. Aber der kosmopolitische Brite [...]

Maddy Allison mit Ihrer Auswahl aus den aktuellen Neuveröffentlichungen und mit neuer Musik von Fabienne Ambuehl, Benjamin Lackner, Gulli Gudmundsson, [...]

Es war der eindrucksvolle Schlusspunkt des heurigen Jazzfestivals Leibnitz im Weingartenhotel Harkamp in St. Nikolai im Sausal: Vor der malerischen [...]

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Jazz in Deutschland / Germany jazzpages.de/info Jazzpages – Das Portal zum Jazz in Deutschland seit 1997 Die Jazzpages sind ein Projekt von Frank Schindelbeck und publizieren seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre Informationen zum Jazz

Das Jazz Trombone Festival 2025 bringt vom 22. bis 26. Januar frischen Wind in die Schweizer Jazzszene und verwandelt das Moods in Zürich sowie das GZ Riesbach in eine Bühne [...]

Seit 2003 verleiht die Wormser Jazzinitiative BlueNite alle zwei Jahre den Wormser Jazzpreis an junge, professionelle Musikerinnen und Musiker, die die deutsche Jazzszene prägen. Viele der bisherigen Preisträger sind heute [...]

Das Moers Festival präsentiert den belgischen Jazztrompeter Bart Maris als Improviser in Residence für das Jahr 2025. Regelmäßige Besucher des Festivals wird diese Wahl entzücken, kennt man den Musiker doch [...]

Sa 01.02. 09:04 – 10:00 UHRSWR Kultur MusikstundeJazz global – Folkjazz-Visionen: Volksmusik im JazzVon Babette Michel Die Kantele-Zither-Spielerin Sinnika Langeland ist in Norwegen nicht nur mit Runenliedern aus der Region [...]

Es ist schwer zu sagen, ob es persönlich gut oder schlecht ist, dass Konzerte immer häufiger wie Zeitreisen anmuten. Jamaladeen Tacuma – damals zum ersten Mal in Darmstadt gehört, bei [...]

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Jazz Thing jazzthing.de Jazz thing ist eine deutsche Jazz -Zeitschrift, die seit November 1993 fünfmal jährlich erscheint (November/Dezember/Januar, Februar/März, April/Mai, Juni/Juli/August,

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Magazin für Jazz Musik – jazz-fun.de – Magazin für Jazz Musik Jazz-fun.de will mehr erfahren. »The music doesn’t have so far to go« – das ist wie ein Zaubervers für alle Musiker

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Jazzwax Marc Myers writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal and is author of „Rock Concert: An Oral History“ (Grove), „Anatomy of a Song“ (Grove) and „Why Jazz Happened.“ Founded in 2007, JazzWax has won three Jazz Journalists Association awardsn and cacophony

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Highresaudio Fortlaufend Neuerscheinungen – hier als Link zum Jazz | weitere Genres in der Menüauswahl

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Downbeat The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the „downbeatin music, also called „beat one“, or the first beat of a musical measure.

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Jazzwise, the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly and the leading English language jazz magazine in Europe, has changed the way jazz magazines look and think with a stunning

a selection of nice jazz web sites

Michael’s Jazzblog from Switzerland It’s time to provide another list of interesting albums that have been released in the last few months.

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Steven Kamperman – Prince Achmed

Eine faszinierend angelegte Reise in die Zeit des Stummfilms Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed von Lotte Reiniger, überzeugend komponiert wie abwechslungsreich aufgespielt und umgesetzt [...]

Javier Rojo – Música Para Amansar Fieras

„Jede Note, jede Melodie, verkörpert die Erfahrungen und Emotionen, die ich in den letzten fünf Jahren, seit ich Saxophon spiele, gemacht habe. Dieses Album ist mit äußerster Sorgfalt entstanden und [...]

Jazz Albums December 2024

Alben des Monats: Nordsnø Ensemble Ett omaka Par ​.​.​. – Brûlez les meubles Folio #5 [...]

Newcomer Jazz 2024

river (band feat. Nina Feldgrill & Robert Unterköfler), Benjamin Samuels (sax), Naima Faraò (voc), Liv Andrea Hauge (p), Emma Pilgaard (voc). Anni Kiviniemi (p), Jeanne Michard (sax), Monsieur M​Â​LÂ (band), [...]

Best of Jazz Songs 2024

Best of Songs 2024 [...]

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The Guardian Jazz die Jazzabteilung des Guardian mit nahezu täglichen Jazz Reports und Reviews

Smashing result for a one-of-a-kind egg | Brief letters

Shattering expectations | Sea level | TikTok ban | Bob Dylan | All that jazzCheery news of a rare egg (‘One-in-a-billion’ round egg found at farm in Devon to be [...]

Letters: Jimmy Carter obituary

President Jimmy Carter had an appreciation of the musical heritage of the south that extended beyond gospel and rock. In 1978, he and the first lady, Rosalynn Carter, held a [...]

Play On! review – a warm, elegant comedy that brings 1940s swing to Shakespeare

Bristol Old VicTwelfth Night is relocated to the Cotton Club in this sparkling musical, which luxuriates in its musicality and movementGiven the important function of music in Twelfth Night, it [...]

Glebe: Gaudí review – a bold British jazz fusion debut

(ECN/Proper)Guitarist Kieran Gunter and pianist Chris Bland and co embrace prog-rock, synth and velvety vocals on this Pat Metheny-inspired setGarlanded graduates of Leeds College of Music (now Conservatoire), where they [...]

Lost Ella Fitzgerald recordings to be released – including her take on 60s pop

Oakland concert recording from 1967 features jazz standards alongside unheard Fitzgerald versions of the era’s hits, including Alfie and Music to Watch Girls ByLost recordings of a 1967 Ella Fitzgerald [...]

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Jazz Zeitung Das JazzZeitungs-Blog. Hier schreiben Rainer Wein, Jörg Lichtinger, Peter Ortmann, Thomas Spitzer, Benjamin Schaefer, Martin Hufner …

Nach dem Radiofestival der ARD: „listen, adapt & improve“

Das ist eine Bratwurst. © Martin HufnerNach dem Radiofestival der ARD: „listen, adapt & improve“ – Bitte improven ARD, wenn ihr schon sonst euch eurer langerworbenen Stärken und eurer Jazzexpertise [...]

Der „unelektrischste E-Bassist“: Norbert Dömling ist seit über 50 Jahren auf der Bühne

Ein richtiger Franke! Hat man Norbert Dömling am Telefon, weiß man nach wenigen Sätzen, wo er als Junge Fußball gespielt hat. Der Bassist ist ein waschechter „Frangge“, um dem Idiom [...]

Das Ende einer föderalen Radiokultur ist so gut wie beschlossen

Absturz now. Foto: HufnerWährend man sich angeblich diskussionsbereit zeigt wenn es um die Zukunft des Radios geht – so sucht ARD-Vorsitzender Kai Gniffke aktuell auch das Gespräch mit Teilen der [...]

Desaströs in vielerlei Hinsicht: Der Deutsche Jazzpreis 2023

Deutscher Jazzpreis. Foto: Oliver HochkeppelEin Kommentar von Oliver Hochkeppel Im vergangenen Jahr, bei der zweiten, erstmals in Bremen an die jazzahead! gekoppelten Verleihung des Deutschen Jazzpreises, war man im Vergleich [...]

Soundtrack zum Gebäck: Plätzchenbäcker Till B.

The New Krümelmonster: Till Brönner. Foto: Martin HufnerEr hat dieses Mal keine flammende Wutrede in Sachen Corona gehalten, was ihn bekanntlich bis zu Anne Will ins Studio gebracht hat oder [...]

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Hosianna Mantra

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit a 1972 meditation on [...]

Teenager of the Year (30th Anniversary Edition)

The Pixies frontman’s 1994 solo LP is a relic of an era when the music industry was flush with cash, affording even the most idiosyncratic artists the freedom to indulge [...]

Murder During Drug Traffic

In the grim light cast by producer RichGains’ murky, distorted beats, one of Detroit’s preeminent talents shades his signature stoicism with creeping psychic torment. [...]

Suntub extras

Though not as expansive as the Danish musician’s otherworldly 2023 masterpiece, this instrumental bonus EP still offers an engrossing snapshot of her mysterious creative universe. [...]

Dlow Curry

Though stuffed with outlandish boasts and nonstop hustle, the Port Salerno rapper’s new album is remarkably light on its feet. [...]

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