Hayley Kavanagh Quartet At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
September 2, 2025

Hayley Kavanagh Quartet Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland August 29, 2025 “Welcome to the Upper East Side." Variations on this phrase--delivered by Scott's Jazz Club co-founder Cormac O'Kane--have greeted visitors to Belfast's award-winning jazz venue every Friday night since 2020. Hard to believe that half a decade has whizzed ...

Jazz in Nazi Germany: The Music That Wouldn��t Die

by Joe Alterman
June 29, 2025

This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried so desperately to suppress it, to twist it, to erase it. And yet, even in those darkest of times, music found ...

Knox Chandler: Exploring The Sound Of The Shoreline

by Lawrence Peryer
June 29, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on guitarist Knox Chandler. Knox's name might ring a bell from his work with The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, or maybe from his string arrangements on Depeche Mode's Exciter (Mute, 2001). However, his latest project takes an entirely different turn. After decades in the music business bouncing between ...

Fabia Mantwill Announces New Album IN.SIGHT, Featuring Her 32-piece Orchestra To Be Released On Groundup Music

June 17, 2025

Acclaimed composer, saxophonist, and conductor Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, together with GroundUP Music, announces the upcoming release of her new album, IN.SIGHT, featuring the Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, mixed both in stereo and Dolby Atmos. IN.SIGHT is set for release on GroundUP Music on July 25, 2025 across digital platforms and in physical formats (CD and LP). Berlin-basedFabia ...

The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

by Larry Slater
June 13, 2025

Hoagy Carmichael's career as one of America's great songwriters is unlike any of his peers. Carmichael, like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, was born at the tail end of the 19th century, but he was never a Broadway composer, and he wasn't from New York. He was a midwesterner from Indiana, drawn more to ...

Live From Berlin: Lina Allemano, Jonas Westergaard & Lisa Wulff

by Martin Longley
May 24, 2025

Lina Allemano/Uli Kempendorff/Jonas Westergaard/Nathan Ott Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin, Germany March 24, 2025 Johann Greve is lately running a monthly Schlot Session at this lesser-known (but wonderful) basement jazz club in the Mitte part of town, open since 1993 (originally in Prenzlauer Berg, but shifting here in 2000). It's ...

Maerz Musik 2025

by Martin Longley
May 16, 2025

Radialsystem/ Sophiensaele/Haus der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany March 23-25 2025 Maerz Musik is organised by the Berliner Festspiele, the same venue that presents Jazzfest Berlin. This ten-day Maerzfest concerns itself with the spiky end of moderne composition, but frequently crosses the line into freely improvised spontaneity. Your scribe was in ...

Tamiko Thiel: Part 2 - Art At Technology's Edge

by Lawrence Peryer
May 3, 2025

Today, the Spotlight again shines on media artist Tamiko Thiel, in the second of a two-part conversation. In the first talk, we explored Tamiko's journey from designing the world's first AI supercomputer in the eighties to becoming a pioneering media artist. Today, we dive deeper into her groundbreaking work in virtual reality and other ...

Mirna Bogdanovic

Award-winning singer & composer Mirna Bogdanovic is creating a blend of experimental sounds with jazz influenced vocals, effects and beats. With tireless curiosity, she explores the possibilities of harmony, combining the voice with acoustic and electronic soundscapes. The universe of Berlin-based artist Mirna Bogdanovic, invites the listeners into a warped world coated with jazz and avant-pop.

Bogdanovic? studied classical piano and jazz vocals at various music Colleges around Europe and finished her degree at the Jazz Institut Berlin (2017). At the time of her studies she won the Downbeat Student Award and was part of the National Youth Big Band (BuJazzo).

Alexander Dubovoy

Born: February 17, 1994

I grew up in the vibrant creative scene of the San Francisco Bay Area, learning from incredible musicians as a regular student at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. I learned music largely by ear with Gordon Fels and gigged locally. I don't remember a time when I didn't play music or a time when I didn't improvise.

I left home to attend Yale University (CC '16) and performed with a number of musical groups. One of my main projects was the band Newspeak. In 2014, we recorded the album Machinery of Night with 11-time Grammy-winner Jack Renner. In 2015-6, we performed commissioned pieces at the Yale University Art Gallery, completed an artistic residency at an artist commune in Austria, and toured California and Vermont. I also sang and toured around the world with Redhot & Blue, Yale's oldest coed a cappella group. I performed solo at venues worldwide, including interpreting the life of a zenmaster through song at Rakuya Label in Tokyo.