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Musica Jazz Collector’s Issue is available
The first issue of Musica Jazz International is now available in English language, with previews of columns and articles. The cover story, dossier, interviews, and two accompanying CDs
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Wadada Leo Smith “Defiant Life”
Smith’s musical biography should be studied by new generations not because it follows the usual arc of humble beginnings, entrance into the mainstream, and...
Ran Blake: a poet in black and white
Let’s start with a song: “Laura.” David Raksin composed the music for the film of the same name (released in Italy as Vertigine), and...
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Sergio Mendes: Pretty World
The recent death of the Brazilian pianist truly marks the end of an enchanted world: a true la-la land built in the perfect image and likeness of its ingenious creator
Interviews
Marisa Monte: Portas
The great Brazilian singer is always an authentic explorer: in love with the past, but projecting into the future. On the occasion of her return to Italy, where she lived a few years ago, we asked her to tell us her story.
Lost Recordings
Lost Recordings
A Lost Item in Hamburg: The 1975 New Jazz Festival Album
The 1. New Jazz Festival Hamburg '75 album remains a lost item today. It contains four long tracks from a festival whose lineup, half a century later, is still difficult to reconstruct: Terje Rypdal, Liebman & Beirach, Eberhard Weber, and Tomasz Stańko.
Lost Recordings
Barry Altschul: sounds from another space/time
A member of some of the most innovative groups of the seventies, a faithful partner of Dave Holland in an unforgettable rhythm section, Barry Altschul left us some important records
Blues
Blues Corner
Sam Cooke: “Mr. Soul” between Church and Nightclub
The life, career and tragic end of one of the greatest voices of the 20th century – and not just an African-American one.
Blues Corner
Arthur Prysock: the crooner with deep blues shadows
Arthur Prysock, born exactly one hundred years ago, was one of the warmest and most seductive voices of a forty-year period of black music, moving with elegance and depth between jazz, blues, R&B, country and even disco tracks, without ever losing its powerful magnetic force on the most mature and demanding African-American audiences.
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Moon in June
Steven Wilson: In a Fragment of the Cosmos
Steven Wilson: In a Fragment of the Cosmos. One of the busiest musicians of our time reflects on the vastness of the universe
Moon in June
Marianne Faithfull: A Hard Life
Marianne Faithfull: a memory of an artist in dazzling chiaroscuro
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Magazine
Musica Jazz Collector’s Issue is available
The first issue of Musica Jazz International is now available in English language, with previews of columns and articles. The cover story, dossier, interviews, and two accompanying CDs
Digital Magazine
Musica Jazz – Collector’s Issue – digital edition
You’ll always have access to the digital flipbook to...
Interviews
Marisa Monte: Portas
The great Brazilian singer is always an authentic explorer: in love with the past, but projecting into the future. On the occasion of her return to Italy, where she lived a few years ago, we asked her to tell us her story.
Interviews
Artemis “Arboresque”: Renée Rosnes Speaks
Let's go back to 1964, when two Australian biologists...
Interviews
Take a Journey Through the Jazz Clubs of the Big Apple
Take a Journey Through the Jazz Clubs of the Big Apple. New York never sleeps, and neither do its jazz clubs. You can easily stay up until dawn in this city, immersed in a musical ecosystem that is constantly evolving.
News
Festivals and Concerts
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, 2025
The New York Times has described it as "one...
Interviews
Take a Journey Through the Jazz Clubs of the Big Apple
Take a Journey Through the Jazz Clubs of the Big Apple. New York never sleeps, and neither do its jazz clubs. You can easily stay up until dawn in this city, immersed in a musical ecosystem that is constantly evolving.
Interviews
Branford Marsalis “Belonging”
Brandford Marsalis "Belonging". The saxophonist makes his debut on Blue Note with a reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s landmark 1974 album
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Roy Ayers: “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”
Ayers died on March 4 in New York. The warm sound of his instrument has fallen silent, leaving an empty void. He was eighty-four years old and had been battling a long illness. His notes, once rays of sunshine in the jazz-funk and soul firmament, now float like precious dust in an endless sunset. The music world is left devastated and suspended, waiting for a final note that will never come. His vibraphone spoke directly to the heart, and every chord he played was a fragment of melancholic light—a thrill we now miss like a lost heartbeat. Roy Ayers leaves behind a bittersweet void—a silence filled with memories in...
Jazz & Hip-Hop: A summit meeting
Hip-hop is to young black people what bebop was to those of my generation (Quincy Jones)
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Saihs win the 2025 Conad Jazz Contest
Formed in Florence in 2023, the sextet stood out “for the precision of their arrangements and the balance of their solo contributions,” earning them the top prize of €5,000 to support their artistic development. The award also includes a national tour of Italy’s top jazz venues, year-round promotion across the Contest’s official social media channels, and the release of an EP produced by Universal Music Italy.
The official announcement was made live on Radio Monte Carlo by Stefano Bragatto, the station’s director and president of the artistic jury. The jury evaluated the live performances of the ten finalist bands, held on July 14, 15, and 16 on the Conad Stage...
Musica Jazz – Collector’s Issue – digital edition
You’ll always have access to the digital flipbook to read online — but you won’t be able to download it.