Nov 26, 2024 2:19 PM
Improvisers Build Border-Defying Community in Austria
Music Unlimited has been held annually since 1987 in Wels, Austria. The city elections of the past decade have placed…
DKV Trio’s combination of high energy, quick change-ups and soul-shouting melody was a crowd favorite.
Nov 26, 2024 2:19 PM
Music Unlimited has been held annually since 1987 in Wels, Austria. The city elections of the past decade have placed…
Pianist Marilyn Crispell tantalized in two very different settings at the festival.
Nov 12, 2024 12:49 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. gave the opening address for Berliner Jazztage 1964, which was the first edition of the annual…
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee will play on opening night of Jazzfest Berlin with the London organ trio Decoy.
Oct 15, 2024 1:58 PM
Jazzfest Berlin has announced the program for its 60th anniversary edition, which will take place Oct. 31–Nov. 3 at…
From left, Joakim Rainer Peterson, Alexander Riris and Rino Sivathas perform at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival.
Aug 8, 2023 1:44 PM
Of the jazz festivals that Norway sponsors throughout the year, Kongsberg Jazzfestival is one of the oldest and most…
Jesup Wagon is dedicated to Dr. George Washington Carver (1864–1943), a son of slaves whose boundary-defying life accrued accomplishments in music and painting.
Jul 26, 2022 1:45 PM
A recording may become Jazz Album of the Year by epitomizing the sound of the moment or by pointing the direction where…
Anthony Braxton led two evenings of music during Skaņu Mežs in Latvia.
Oct 19, 2021 1:46 PM
Anthony Braxton once told author Graham Lock that he was less interested in playing one good gig than in establishing…
Bassists Nick Dunston (left) and Michael Formanek, and reedist Anna Webber have released recordings on the new digital arm of the Out Of Your Head imprint.
Nov 4, 2020 8:44 AM
Given the travails of releasing jazz recordings in the 21st century, it’s easy to imagine the name “Out Of Your…
Van Morrison performs at Moldejazz in Molde, Norway.
Jul 24, 2019 4:44 PM
Molde is a small stop on the Norwegian fjord-viewing cruise-ship route. But July 16-21, under skies that never fully…
Paal Nilssen-Love, drummer in The Thing, is heading out on a tour of the States with the trio.
Mar 15, 2018 12:36 PM
Scientists and philosophers through the ages have debated whether nature or nurture plays a greater role in shaping…
Amir ElSaffar’s most recent recording is Not Two, with his 17-piece Rivers of Sound Orchestra.
Feb 6, 2018 2:40 PM
When Amir ElSaffar was growing up in River Forest and Oak Park, Illinois, his father would sneak him into blues clubs;…
Mars Williams will tour to promote a new album that melds holiday music with Albert Ayler tunes.
Dec 1, 2017 11:48 AM
Jazz and Christmas have gone together like egg and nog for decades, and for some musicians the engagement goes far…
Evan Parker performs at the Blow Out! Festival, which ran from Aug. 16–19 in Oslo, Norway.
Aug 16, 2019 4:50 PM
Stoked by mild weather and freedom from the long winter nights, Norwegians pack their summer with music festivals. In…
Keefe Jackson plays a sopranino saxophone at the Astral Spirits Showcase in Chicago on July 23.
Aug 22, 2016 5:07 PM
Improvisation is a problem-solving strategy, and the music business has plenty of problems right now. While free-improv…
Sun Ra leads his Arkestra on the 1980 album Sunrise In Different Dimensions, which HatHut is reissuing on vinyl LP.
Aug 26, 2019 2:35 PM
Few people have followed jazz through more changes than Werner X. Uehlinger. Born in Switzerland in 1935, he first…
Jason Adasiewicz (left), Steve Noble, John Edwards and Peter Brötzmann perform at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 21.
Jul 11, 2016 12:22 PM
Before Peter Brötzmann gained renown as a musician, he was a German art student who played clarinet in a Dixieland band…
Tony Malaby (seen here in a press photo) performed with three ensembles at Elastic Arts in Chicago on March 24–25.
Dec 2, 2019 11:16 AM
There was a time in jazz when all roads led to New York. Tenor and soprano saxophonist Tony Malaby took that road when…
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