Europe Jazz Media Chart: November 2020
- Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Europe’s leading jazz magazines and websites select the best new albums for this month’s chart
Features
“We hope that our listeners hear an inspiring life force in this music” – Mister Barrington Bounce Back
- Friday, November 13, 2020
One of the most intriguing groups to emerge in the last decade electro-fusion soul-funksters Mister Barrington spoke to Mike Flynn about their uplifting yet bittersweet new album, Regenerate
Preview: EFG London Jazz Festival 2020
- Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The EFG London Jazz Festival returns but like never before, as gigs take place in venues and online. Alyn Shipton spoke to artistic director Pelin Opcin to find out how this hybrid edition came together
Josephine Davies: Trane of Thought
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Like her hero John Coltrane, award-winning saxophonist and Satori leader Josephine Davies digs deep into Eastern spirituality to find improvisatory freedom. She tells Selwyn Harris about the life-changing epiphany of hearing A Love Supreme for the first time, the importance of meditation and yoga, and her band’s new album
“Brotherly is like a naughty child that wouldn’t go to sleep!” – Anna Stubbs and Robin Mullarkey Interview
- Friday, October 16, 2020
The cult UK jazz-and-broken beats duo speak to Mike Flynn about the release of a remastered double album of their best songs with guest contributions from Donny McCaslin, Jason Rebello and Kaidi Tatham
The best new jazz albums: Editor's Choice, November 2020
- Thursday, October 15, 2020
Featuring outstanding new albums from Artemis, Tim Garland, Orlando Le Fleming, Marius Neset, Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Terje Rypdal and more
Nubya Garcia: “We need to keep those stories alive to give us our history, the real history. In my community, the Black community, that’s really important”
- Tuesday, October 13, 2020
One of the leading lights of the new young London jazz scene, saxophonist Nubya Garcia digs deep into her heritage on her debut album Source, a musical self-portrait that celebrates her wide-ranging influences. She speaks to Thomas Rees about the power we all draw from our roots, forging a sound of her own, and the art of making listeners want to move
The arts in crisis: “I’ve already seen some of my favourite UK musicians looking for work in supermarkets”
- Thursday, October 8, 2020
Rosie Hanley speaks to award-winning saxophonist Phil Meadows about the struggle for musicians to make ends meet during the pandemic, and how you can help
Tigran Hamasyan: “I think an artist’s job is to awaken something that’s unconscious”
- Thursday, October 8, 2020
Armenian-born, US-resident Tigran Hamasyan is a pianist and composer of rare distinction. With his latest album, The Call Within, Hamasyan has made his strongest artistic statement yet. Selwyn Harris caught up with him to find out more
The best new jazz albums: Editor's Choice, October 2020
- Thursday, September 17, 2020
Featuring outstanding new albums from Django Bates & Norrbotten Big Band, Fini Bearman, James Beckwith, RYMDEN, Harold López-Nussa, The Christian McBride Big Band and Ulf Wakenius