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Album

People, Places

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Graz; Delfina’s Way; Zamba del Chaguanco; 18/5; El Donny; In an Unknown Mood; Cancion de Cuna para Simon; Cyclical Loss of Hope (bonus track).

Album

People. Places. Music For Large Ensemble

By Martin Iaies

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Graz; Delfina´s Way; Zamba del Chaguanco; 18/5; El Donny; In an Unknown Mood; Canción de Cuna para Simón; Cyclical Loss of Hope

Album

Vice Versa II - Rebounce

By Bram De Looze

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Popo; Detachment; Thyme; Ninetees; Rebounce; Probability.

Album

The Value Of Choices

By Gabriele Di Franco

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Fly; Betsabea; Bloemen; The Value of Choices; Another Loss; Slak; Blues in F; Inhale (Inspira).

Album

Wu Wei & The Art Of Living

By Aseo Friesacher

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Wu Wei; One; Home; Reflections In The Water; Seven Virtues, Seven Sins; Samsara; Blues For Sadako; Healing

Song of the Day

Zamba del Chaguanco (feat. Klaus Gesing)

October 3, 2026

Album: People. Places. Music For Large Ensemble
By Martin Iaies
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 08:40

Article: Album Review

Martin Iaies, featuring Klaus Gesing: People, Places

Read "People, Places" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 27, 2026

As though being a spendid jazz guitarist, composer and arranger were not enough, Argentina-born, Austria-based bass guitarist Martin Iaies was savvy enough to invite renowned woodwind artist Klaus Gesing to sit in on three numbers on Iaies' 2026 recording, People, Places. Iaies ushers an 11-member ensemble--not quite a big band, but fairly close--through its ...

Article: Album Review

Gabriele Di Franco: The Value Of Choices

Read "The Value Of Choices" reviewed by Ieva Pakalniškytė

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
August 14, 2026

Large-ensemble jazz is often called cinematic simply because it has plenty of colour and volume. On The Value Of Choices (Challenge Records, 2026), the word fits for a better reason. Here, the music keeps changing depending on where the listener stands. Across eight compositions, Italian-born, Brussels-based composer, guitarist and conductor Gabriele di Franco keeps every section ...

Article: Album Review

Bram De Looze, Felix Henkelhausen, Eric McPherson: Vice Versa II - Rebounce

Read "Vice Versa II - Rebounce" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
February 21, 2026

Belgian pianist Bram De Looze's Vice Versa project is one that gradually becomes visible, the way a constellation appears only after your eyes adjust to the night. The music feels as if it had always been orbiting somewhere just beyond earshot, waiting for the right trio of creatives to call it into being. At ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...