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Article: Album Review

Moon Inhabitants: Canned Luna

Read "Canned Luna" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
September 4, 2026

Is there anybody up there? The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds: NASA's lunar program is about to celebrate All About Jazz's 35th anniversary with the start of construction of a permanent lunar base (2030), laying the foundations for AAJ's 50th anniversary with its completion. Jazz will win: once the planet's taxpayers' money has ...

Article: In Pictures

QuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 13, 2026

A collection of photos from the QuartSky concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 21, 2026 featuring Jonas Kullhammar, Maciej Obara, Ole Morten Vågan and Håkon Mjaset Johansen. Other photo reports from the same festival: Dust Bunny at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, The Young Mothers at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy, ...

Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

by Daniel Mège
August 4, 2026

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

Article: Inside the Songs

Thomas Strønen Time Is A Blind Guide: Off Stillness

by Dean Nardi
April 8, 2026

During his Time Is A Blind Guide reunion with keyboardist Ayumi Tanaka, cellist Leo Svensson Sander (replacing Lucy Railton), violinist Håkon Aase and double-bassist Ole Morten Vågan on Off Stillness (ECM Records, 2025), Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen lands in a peculiar, improvised pocket. Brushed rhythms, unusual violin counterpoints, verbose bass, pizzicato cello and fractured piano arpeggios lend ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...