Marta Sanchez wins the 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...

Ingrid Laubrock wins both the Rising Star Composer of the Year category and the Rising Star Large Ensemble of the Year with her orchestra.

The three-day Intakt Records Festival to celebrate the German Record Critics' Award 2025 to Patrik Landolt at the Loft in Cologne was a complete success: all concerts sold out, a great atmosphere all round and lots of enthusiasm among the...

Louis Moholo-Moholo was an important duo partner (intakt cd 006) for Irène Schweizer, who died last year .She praised Moholo's "rhythm" and commented: "This incredible drive has something trance-like about it. I compare Louis to Elvin Jones when he was still...

This Friday evening (13th of June), outstanding personalities and projects from the German and international jazz scene were honored with the German Jazz Award 2025 at the E-Werk in Cologne. An international main jury selected this year's award winners from 76...

Sylvie Courvoisier has been awarded the Schweizer Grand Prix Musik 2025 from Schweizer Kulturpreise - Bundesamt für Kultur."Musician with boundless connecting power. The pianist, composer and improvising musician Sylvie Courvoisier has been a central voice in jazz for decades with...

Pianist Simone Keller receives the City of Zurich Art Prize. The award for outstanding cultural achievements goes to the Institut für Incohärente Cinematographie (Institute for Incoherent Cinematography). An excerpt from the City of Zurich website: "The 2025 City of Zurich...

"For Joachim Kühn's double album, the term "jazz" seems almost too narrow. Kühn processes material from a wide variety of sources, his improvisation closely resembling what was called "fantasizing" in older music. "Échappée" is an astonishing masterpiece, recorded in Kühn's own...