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.

Pericopes + 1: Good Morning World!

The press announcement accurately states: "Periscopes +1 is an Italian trio project with roots in European tradition, African American music, and improvisation, and an affinity for melody and compositional structure, [...]

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: TILIETULUM solo version

The best poems are the ones we write for ourselves. Like poetry, the music a talented artist creates for him or herself is the deepest, most personal expression possible. Like [...]

David Bailis: Tree Of Life

Some jazz artists create distinctive sound worlds with their instruments and the bands they put together. In the "guitarist as leader" genre--on the popular music side), think Link Wray, Dick [...]

Bruno Montrone Trio: Unaware Beauty

Bruno Montrone is definitely a name to keep in sight. Although still fairly young, Montrone has been very active as a side man, accompanying the likes of Enrico Rava, Kurt [...]

Simon Toldam: Alt er Luft

There was a time when it was avant-garde to play loud and fast, but in a world that is already moving at full speed without looking back, the new avant-garde [...]

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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

Album of the Year 2024

We are happy to announce the Free Jazz Collective's top album of 2024. Last week, we presented the top 10 recordings of the year, culled from the top 10 lists [...]

Two From Circum-disc Records

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos   Improvising drummer and composer Peter Orins is the main man behind the small, but significant in adventurous musics of today, label called Circum-disc. The following two [...]

Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra - Louis Armstrong’s America (ESP-Disk’, 2024)

By Lee Rice Epstein Let’s start with the hyperbole: Allen Lowe’s massive, five-hour opus may turn out to be one of the most important recordings of the 2020s, if only [...]

Barre Phillips (1934 - 2024)

Photo by Didier Bonnet / ECM RecordsBy Martin Schray Sometimes you play music and it wasn’t planned to release it as an album. That’s what happened with the first bass [...]

Ingrid Schmoliner - I AM ANIMAL (Idyllic Noise, 2024)

By Sarah Grosser Composed in the week leading up to the 2024 Artacts festival in St Johann in Tirol, Austria, and performed in the Dekanatspfarrkirche (deanery parish church) Ingrid Schmoliner’s [...]

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.

Congratulations to Linley Hamilton MBE

Huge congratulations to a pivotal figure in jazz in Northern Ireland, Dr Linley Hamilton, on being awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List. The post Congratulations to [...]

Ilario Ferrari Trio

With their vibrant and versatile take on piano driven contemporary jazz, the Ilario Ferrari Trio has been wowing audiences and critics alike with the lively compositions taken from their latest [...]

Mondays with Morgan: Renee Rosnes – new album ‘Crossing Paths’

The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist and composer Renee Rosnes. Her latest album, Crossing Paths, was released 6 December via Smoke Sessions Records. Crossing Paths features [...]

Parents In Jazz: Cat Toren

Cat Toren is a pianist, improviser and composer, originally from North Vancouver, Canada. A JUNO Award-winner and Western Canadian Music Award-winner, she has performed throughout North America and been commissioned [...]

RIP Barre Phillips (1934-2024)

Musicians remember bassist Barre Phillips, who died this weekend at the age of 90. Evan Parker writes “Barre was a wise head and a great bass player and I was [...]

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 Views Albums of the Year 2024

Chris Baber New Releases Daniel Herskedal – A single sunbeam (self-released) Jasper Høiby – 3Elements: Like Water & Jasper Hoiby – 3 Elements: Earthness (both Edition) 137 – Strangeness Oscillation [...]

Martial Solal timed everything well.  He composed the score of “Breathless” (A Bout de Souffle) for Jean Luc Godard in 1959.  It has remained an iconic film that is still [...]

Nik Bärtsch  – Take Five Q&A

Photo credit – Christian Senti Can you tell us about your new album? The album shows the recent spin of the band. It communicates directly via the groove energy and [...]

Nearly 20 years into their journey, Spinifex remains one of the more exciting bands operating at the crossroads of avant-jazz and beyond. TryTone Records Tobias Klein – Alto Saxophone, Composer; [...]

tension and excitement that requires patience from both musicians and listener in building up to points of immense lyricism or rhythmic intensity that often catch one unawares, and by turns [...]

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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.

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

Ein Mixtape, das mit dem Titel »The Personal Album« versehen wird, scheint Erwartungen an tiefe und intime Soundmomente… [...]

Mit ihrem Debütalbum »Could We Be More« hat die achtköpfige Band Kokoroko 2022 einen großartigen, sanften Beitrag zur… [...]

Es war ein ganz eigener Sound, der in den 1970er Jahren aus Sambia kam: rau, aber funky, mit… [...]

Man muss gar nicht so ein Fass aufmachen, weil die britische Elektronik-Musikerin Beatrice Dillon jetzt mit »Seven Reorganisations«… [...]

DJ City kommt aus Schweden und hat bereits auf Labels wie Public Possession oder Cocktail d’Amore veröffentlicht. Die… [...]

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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

Euan Edmonds - Beyond Hope and Fear

Label: Desafio Candente Records, 2024Personnel - Euan Edmonds: trombone; Dustin Laurenzi: tenor saxophone; Clark Gibson: alto saxophone; Paul Bedal: piano; Sam Peters: bass; Neil Hemphill: drums. Trombonist and composer Euan [...]

Yuki Fujiwara - Glass Colored Lily

Label: Defkaz Records, 2024Personnel - Yuki Fujiwara: shinobue; Mitsuhiro Sonoyama: saxophone; Peter Apfelbaum: keys, clarinet, flute; Will Bernard: guitar; Bill Laswell: eight-string bass, effects; Adam Rudolph: percussion. Japanese shinobue and [...]

Tyshawn Sorey Trio - The Susceptible Now

Label: Pi Recordings, 2024Personnel - Aaron Diehl: piano; Harish Raghavan: bass; Tyshawn Sorey: drums. The excellent trio of multi-awarded drummer Tyshawn Sorey—featuring pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Raghavan—delivers its [...]

Thomas Stronen - Relations

Label: ECM Records, 2024Personnel - Thomas Strønen: drums, percussion; Craig Taborn: piano; Chris Potter: tenor and soprano saxophone; Sinikka Langeland: voice, kantele; Jordy Rossy: piano. Between 2018 and 2022, Norwegian [...]

Jakob Bro - Taking Turns

Label: ECM Records, 2024Personnel - Jakob Bro: guitar; Lee Konitz: alto and soprano saxophone; Bill Frisell: guitar; Jason Moran: piano; Thomas Morgan: bass; Andrew Cyrille: drums. With Taking Turns, Danish [...]

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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 …

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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“Esperanza has an old soul and a young heart. She embodies the past, present, and future of jazz.” – Quincy Jones Dive into the extraordinary journey of Esperanza Spalding, the [...]

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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.

JJ writers chose their favourite releases - or jazz experiences - from 2024. As might expected with such a now teeming and mature art as jazz, there’s no consensus, but [...]

Since its inception seven years ago, the Hidden Jazz Club has grown in influence and reputation with one key distinguishing feature – at time of booking the lineup is not [...]

Thirty years ago David Badham welcomed the soulful Caribbean warmth and the percussion-lite Latin vibe of the second album from the late-blooming Birmingham-based saxophonist The post JJ 12/94: Andy Hamilton [...]

Thirty years ago Ellis, born 'out in the country' of Farmersville, Texas talked about moving on to work with Glen Gray, Jimmy Dorsey and Oscar Peterson, as a Hollywood studio [...]

Thirty years ago Michael Tucker recommended the latest manifestation of Erskine's flight from the jazz-rock of Weather Report into more esoteric climes The post JJ 12/94: Peter Erskine – Time [...]

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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

Am Mikrofon: Odilo Clausnitzer, Michael Engelbrecht und Thomas Loewner. Musik von u.a. Anna Butterss, The Messthetics James Brandon Lewis, Eva [...]

Von Ssirus W. Pakzad. Eine großartige Hommage an diese große Jazz-Pianistin, das ganze unterlegt mit vielen Interviews großer Fans wie [...]

Eine Nachtsession vom Dezember 2008 mit Harry Lachner. Am 8. Sebtember 2008 verstarb der algerische Musiker Hector Zazou, dazu gibt [...]

Willkommen in der Freak-Zone. Kommen Sie wegen Laurie Anderson, den Diagram Brothers und Focus. Bleiben Sie wegen der modernen finnischen [...]

Die Radiotipps in der Übersicht für alle Kultursender des Öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks, ByteFM sowie des Ö1. 00:01 Uhr Deutschlandfunk Kultur Chormusik [...]

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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

“I started to be a full-time player late – not until I was 25 years old. I wasn’t ambitious in that I wanted to be a great jazz player and [...]

„What we play is life“ – dieses Zitat von Louis Armstrong ist das Leitmotiv des Landesjazzfestivals Bruchsal 2025, das vom 17. bis 30. März stattfindet. Zwei Wochen lang verwandelt sich [...]

Das Espen Eriksen Trio + Andy Sheppard im Ella & Louis Mannheim am 16.12.2024 im Ella & Louis in Mannheim – eine Fotogalerie von Manfred Rinderspacher. Nordic Jazz im Ella [...]

Vom 19. bis 23. März 2025 findet in Schwäbisch Hall das 18. JazzArtFestival statt. Seit 2007 wird dieses Festival vom Kulturbüro, dem Jazzclub, dem Goethe-Institut und dem Konzertkreis Triangel organisiert. [...]

Das Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg stellt auch 2025 Fördermittel für professionelle Jazzmusiker bereit, die außerhalb Baden-Württembergs auftreten möchten. Das Programm zielt darauf ab, die baden-württembergische Jazzszene national [...]

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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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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 [...]

Jahresrückblick Best of Jazz Albums 2024

Ein sehr ereignisreiches Jahr, und wieder sehr viele sehr gute Aufnahmen, die zu sortieren und für sich gewinnbringend zu kategorisieren sich verbietet - sie stehen schlichtweg für sich und weisen [...]

ADHD band

There are bands where every album is a step into the unknown. There are others whose development is a reliable and consistent expansion of their terrain. The latter applies to [...]

Nordsnø Ensemble – Ett omaka Par

Nordsnø Ensemble – Ett omaka Par [...]

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

French flirting, flute fusion and love flowin’ free: the best old music we discovered this year

A little crate-digging can yield buried treasure – as our music writers found this year when they discovered everything from Taiwanese pop star to Cher’s disco eraThis year I completed [...]

Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2024

Americana’s classiest duo weather the storm, Kendrick Lamar has the last word, UK jazz soars – and Charli xcx unleashes the power of BratRead the Observer critics’ review of 2024 [...]

The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024

Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age• More on the best music of 2024• More [...]

Zakir Hussain obituary

Virtuoso tabla player whose work with a variety of musicians included composing for filmsZakir Hussain, who has died aged 73 after suffering from complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, was [...]

Martial Solal obituary

French jazz pianist who loved to improvise and wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s film A Bout de SouffleA squint through the metal fence around Martial Solal’s tree-shrouded villa, in [...]

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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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Parenòstic

The Menorcan singer and songwriter blends folk tradition and new compositions in a series of eerie, intensely focused performances honoring the rural character of her home island. [...]

Mosaic

Nearly a quarter century after his ambient glitch masterpiece, Endless Summer, the Viennese musician still seeks transcendence in the collision of guitar riffs and electronic treatments. [...]

Cooper B. Handy’s Album, Vol. 9

On his ninth album, the pop outsider continues his brand of charmingly bizarro tunes. In light of the songwriter’s prolific output, what once felt spontaneous has begun to sound homogenous. [...]

Something Becomes You EP

The New York band’s second EP funnels its influences into a scuzzier, more ambitious showcase of paranoid alt-rock. [...]

The Skeleton Key

The duo’s second full-length collaboration is leaner and meaner, weirder and bleaker. [...]

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