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News: EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 Announces First Wave of Artists

The EFG London Jazz Festival returns for its 33rd edition from 14-23 November 2025, bringing together a diverse lineup of global talent for ten days of innovative and boundary-pushing music.…

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News: Experimental jazz musician Arooj Aftab UK/EU Tour In Support of New Album ‘Night Reign’

Arooj Aftab releases her new album, ‘Night Reign’, on Verve Records, with a visualizer for the project’s focus track, ‘Aey Nehin’. ‘Night Reign’ is the follow up to Aftab’s critically acclaimed label debut Vulture Prince. Anticipatory…

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News: Colin Stetson Shares Video For Track ‘So Say The Soaring Bullbats’, New Album Out Now

Colin Stetson’s new solo album, ‘The Love It Took To Leave You’, is out now via Invada Records (Worldwide, excl. N America) and Envision Records (North America). An Instagram AR filter will be…

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News: Tony Glausi Releases Deluxe Version Of Album ‘Everything At Once’

Tony Glausi released the new deluxe version of his album ‘Everything At Once’ (read our review here). Originally released last year, ‘Everything At Once’ features straight-to-the-gut pop jams and R&B-influenced…

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News: We Are Busy Bodies to reissue Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer’s 1977 Afro-sax set, ‘Blue Stompin’ – hear the title track

CONFLUENCE and significance; that’s what we have here. Those intrepid curators and sound seekers at We Are Busy Bodies announce the release of Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer’s Blue Stompin,…

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Track: DJINN release details of new album; hear ‘Love Divine’

AN AMALGAM of Goat and Hills members, two of the multitude of unique, almost fantastical Swedish psych bands, DJINN recently released a new track “Love Divine”, which features on upcoming…

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News: London Jazz Festival 13th to 22nd November 2020 – Announcement

London Jazz Festival, an amazing 28 years in, has become a big deal on the global music calendar. A stunning mix of international big hitters, emerging UK talent, old pioneers…

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News: Kamasi Washington announces score to ‘Becoming’ film.

Kamasi Washington has announced that he has scored Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren and Higher Ground Productions’ documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama, which debuted on Netflix today, May 6. The score features new original music Washington—whom Hallgren asked to…

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News: Charles Tolliver announces Gearbox Records deal and new album

Charles Tolliver is a master of all trades. The New York-based trumpeter, active since the 1960s, is a leading player, educator, big band leader, composer, and founder of the one…

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RSD 2020: Gearbox Records announce unreleased Don Cherry 12″

Next month, London analogue specialists Gearbox Records will unearth yet another lost gem having just announced a 12″ of previously-unreleased material from Don Cherry for Record Store Day 2020. The exclusive new…

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