Adrian Younge always has several projects on deck. In 2026 alone he produced and played on three releases from his and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s Jazz Is Dead label, with one more coming. Further, his Linear Labs studio and label have issued three 2026 outings: the completely solo outing Younge, the EP Afro-Disco Makossa, and the forthcoming Proud of Me in collaboration with British singer/songwriter ALA.NI.
That’s a lot of work for one man, but Younge’s organic process makes it all possible. What’s more, he makes it look easy.
Afro-Disco Makossa was born from a single question: “What would a Ghanaian producer in ’76 have made if he set out to create an American disco record for his hometown?”…
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Since discovering John Coltrane as a teenager, saxophonist Andy Sheppard has forged a remarkable career, earning multiple British Jazz Awards, international acclaim and even a place in the UK pop charts. His musical range is equally impressive: alongside jazz giants George Russell, Gil Evans and Carla Bley, he has worked with artists as diverse as Baaba Maal, Runrig and John Martyn.
Completely unpretentious, approachable and free of affectation – yet possessing the glamour of a diva in the very best sense: in the 20 years since her ACT debut, Meet Me Around Midnight, Swedish singer, pianist and songwriter Ida Sand has become one of European soul-jazz’s most loved artists, without ever making a fuss about herself and always keeping the focus firmly on the music. Whether entirely on her own with just voice and piano, or on the biggest stages alongside Nils Landgren or the SWR Big Band, it is Ida Sand’s warmth and authenticity that touch her audiences. And, of course, her smoky, sonorous voice, recognisable from the very first note.
Chicago-based tenor saxophonist 
It is more than fair to say — right from the start of their kinship in early 2023, in the Sylvie Courvoisier 4 with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss — that there was something innate, and perhaps more importantly, intimate, between road-clearing pianist 
The last few years have been a whirlwind for Glasgow’s 
Thirty-four years is a long time for a tape to sit in a drawer, but jazz history is littered with such delays, and Anthony Braxton’s discography in particular has always unspooled out of chronological order. Articulations, a duo session with guitarist 
…Recorded live at Chicago’s legendary Green Mill, Open or Close gathers compositions from all four members — saxophonist 
No doubt the students that join the jazz program at The University of North Texas are incredibly advanced players eager to start making music with their classmates. But their development is also dramatically facilitated through their association with the program’s music director Rob Parton and the enthusiastic support and encouragement he and his colleagues give to them. Anyone hearing the school’s Two O’Clock Lab Band will be awed by the professional calibre of the performances and the preternatural maturity demonstrated by the band personnel. And it’s not only players we’re talking about, as its new Return Two Paradise release also features material composed and arranged by UNT students. That the album’s twelve tracks were culled from two…
The modern creative European trio 
Need an escape from the gloom and doom of global politics? How about a hit of Brazilian world-jazz of the “sal, sol, sul” variety? 
Organ trios aren’t as common as they once were. With the keyboardist handling the bass duties from the Hammond’s bass pedals and a guitarist or tenor saxophonist providing melodic help on top of a grooving drummer, these bands once turned bars into real music halls. Today, bars are alive with the sound of ESPN, alas, perhaps.