Fun at the 50th Willisau Jazz Festival, an Intakt Records board meeting and celebration...new preorders and a wonderful listening party with Gregg Belisle-Chi on Bandcamp.

Aruán Ortiz's Créole Renaissance now on sale, rain and reunions at the 45th Saalfelden Jazz Festival in Austria and this weekend's highlights at the 50th Willisau Jazz Festival. See you there!

Someone who wishes to produce free music with empathy needs to be a good host, an attentive listener and a critical companion, above all however, an enthusiast or, to advocate for a word which threatens to become old-fashioned, but is by no means obsolete, an idealist.

Explosions of sound under open skies, stories from the GDR, and a moving finale with Gumpert and Sommer – the Peitz 2025 Jazz Festival rekindles the spirit of resistance.

No image captures the music of Irène's Hot Four live recording from 1981 (Intakt CD 438) better than Giuseppe Reichmuth's collage featuring a burning piano keyboard. Irène Schweizer's music has become an image, and the image has become music. Several...

Since 2016, Moods Zurich has been awarding the Moods-Aïda Alliman Prize in collaboration with the Aïda Alliman Foundation. Each year, this prize provides financial support to a musician from Switzerland or Liechtenstein and also gives them the opportunity to perform at Moods. This year, the jury selected Sarah Buechi as the winner.

Alexander Hawkins wins in the Rising Star Organist of the Year category in Downbeat Magazine's 73rd Critics Poll.

Marta Sanchez wins the Rising Star Pianist of the Year category in Downbeat Magazine's 73rd Critics Poll.

Our very own James Brandon Lewis sits comfortably at the top of the Artist of the Year list and the Tenor Saxophonist of the Year list for 2025. See the full results in Downbeat Magazine's latest issue as well as...