Moor Mother & Lonnie Holley live on May 16, 2025 at the XJAZZ Festival in the Festsaal Kreuzberg
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The term »Jazz« is a slang word for the music that emerged around 1915 in Chicago.
Features
Emma-Jean Thackray doesn’t fit in, with her huge Baggage of Inspiration
Portrait
Marshall Allen: What is a Century in the Face of Eternity?
Portrait
Records Revisited: Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert (1975)
Column
Jaubi are Jazz’s Ship of Theseus
Portrait
Moses Yoofee Trio takes Berlin Jazz to the World Stage
Portrait
How Salenta + Topu recontextualised Classical, Jazz and Improv
Interview
Records Revisited: Herbie Hancock – Thrust (1974)
Column
Greg Foat shares how he is living his best life ahead of his new album
Portrait
Records Revisited: Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch! (1964)
Column
Label Watch: Strut Records
Portrait
Jimi Tenor picks 10 records that shaped, improved and educated him
List, Portrait
Listening to Carlos Niño and learning to live
Interview
Lex Blondin picks 10 Records that Shaped, Improved and Formed him
List, Portrait
Jazz drummer Tilo Weber had to Break Out in order to take a Step Back
Portrait
From J Dilla to the German Jazz Award: Petter Eldh stays on the move
Portrait
Cassie Kinoshi provides the Missing Link between Video Games and Jazz
Portrait
The jazz pianist’s Johanna Summer quest for detours in classical music
Portrait
How Jasmine Myra overcame self-doubt for her new record of delicate Spiritual Jazz
Portrait
Jazz in Berlin: Anything goes, but what remains?
Essay
Alice Coltrane and the Birth of Spiritual Jazz
Portrait
C.A.R. aren’t quite the new CAN, they have their very own drive
Portrait
Powerful visual jazz from Berlin: this is Sun Ark
Portrait
Label Watch: Cortizona
Portrait
Why Bex Burch refused to accept Virtuosity on her debut album
Portrait
Cykada on the Human Illness of not Being at Ease
Interview
Label Watch: ACT Music
Portrait
Records Revisited: Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters (1973)
Column
Matthew Halsall picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and made him
List, Portrait
Yussef Dayes on valuable childlike mentality and the next 200 years
Interview
Reviews
Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus
ECM
Organic Pulse Ensemble
Bamboo Noodles
Jazzaggression
Move 78
Game Four
Not On Label
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
Hauslive 4
Hausu Mountain
Oscar Jerome
The Fork
Self Release
Roundabout
Sidequest
Agogo
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange
INSPIRE // RADICALISE
Energy Exchange
Edison Machado & Boa Nova
Edison Machado & Boa Nova
Far Out
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson & Sam Wilkes Uhlmann
Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
International Anthem
Kunihiko Sugano Trio +1
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Three Blind Mice
Nels Cline
Consentrik Quartet
Blue Note
Butcher Brown
Letters From The Atlantic
Concord
44th Move
Anthem
Black Acre
Bandler Ching
Mercurial
Sdban Ultra
Simon Grab & David Meier
Porœs
-ous
Damon Locks
List Of Demands
International Anthem
Melos Kalpa
Melos Kalpa
Hands In The Dark
Anna Butterss
Mighty Vertebrate
International Anthem
Apifera
Keep The Outside Open
Stones Throw
Joe McPhee
Black Magic Man
Superior Viaduct
Norio Maeda & All Stars
Rock Communication Yagibushi
WeWantSounds
Ronnie Aprils Positive Energy
Volume 1
Jazz Room
JJ Whitefield & Forced Meditation
The Infinity Of Nothingness
Jazzman
Nuke Watch
Pepper’s Ghost
Impatience
New Regency Orchestra
New Regency Orchestra
Mr Bongo
Ville Lähteenmäki Trio
Ville Lähteenmäki Trio
Ultraääni
Various Artists
Entangled Grounds: The Sound Of XJAZZ! Berlin
XJAZZ! Music
Oiro Pena
Oiro Pena
Ultraääni
Spirits Rejoice
Spirits Rejoice!
Frederiksberg
Martina Berther
Bass Works: As I Venture Into
Kit
News
The FRAMED FEST brings art, sound and healing to Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg
Event • 
Clapper returns with vibrant sophomore album »Under the Radar«
News
Quantic has contacted his »homies« and compiled a »DJ-Kicks«
News
Joy Guidry brings her experimental bassoon playing to Cologne
Event • 
Terje Rypdal’s 1968 debut album »Bleak House« re-released
News
Outernationals invite you to jam at the G Sessions at Gretchen – with the best of the best
Event • 
New Kokoroko Album Celebrates Resilience, Nostalgia, and Musical Openness
News
Mongolian singer Enji tours Germany with her new album
Event • 
The Jazzhouse Festival in Hamburg is coming in 2025 with a whole lot of soul
Event • 
Teddy Lasry’s cult album »Action Printing« returns on vinyl
News
Jazz, but different: XJAZZ! 2025 brings the fresh Sound to Berlin-Kreuzberg
Event • 
The long-lost 1976 album »Stereo Instrumental Music« by influential Ethiopian The Ibex Band has had its second coming
News
Live album by Spiritual Jazz musician Muriel Grossmann is being released soon on new Cologne-based label
News
Tony Scott’s 1973 album »Manteca« reissued for the first time
News
The only album by the outstanding Quarteto Novo is reissued for the first time in 25 years
News
Moses Yoofee Trio goes on a big tour
Event • 
Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen releases solo debut at the age of 100
News
Chicago trumpeter Marquis Hill plays a concert in Berlin with his Composers Collective
Event • 
Masaa brings the ambivalence between Orient and Occident to the Berlin stage
Event • 
Experimental sounds at Super Silent 2 in the Emmaus Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Event • 
Gondwana Records brings the Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Kessoncoda and Mari* to the Gretchen in Berlin
Event • 
Discover tomorrow’s jazz today when drummer Silvan Strauss and pianist Reuben James play live in Berlin and Hamburg
Event • 
British saxophonist Nubya Garcia’s concert in Berlin in February promises to be a breath of fresh air.
Event • 
Azymuth, one of Brazil’s most influential bands, plays live in Hamburg and Berlin
Event • 
Remixes wanted for new album by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
News
Koki Nakano, Natascha Rogers and Wayne Snow at the NØ FØRMAT Label Night in Berlin
Event • 
The only German concert of the Gary Bartz NTU Troop, »Live In Bremen 1975«, is released on vinyl for the first time
News
Arooj Aftab captivates her audience, and no doubt will do so live in Heidelberg at the end of October
Event • 
The Asher Gamedze Quartet shows Jazz in all its Vibrancy at a concert in Ludwigshafen
Event • 
Meshell Ndegeocello is coming to Berlin for two evenings in November
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