<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Jazz ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/tag/jazz Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:08:32 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “The wolves are howling with great soul, great passion... it's jazz, the jazz wolf of the Arctic tundra.” Former Police drum legend Stewart Copeland on recording his new album with wolves, hyenas and a black-footed albatross ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/stewart-copeland-on-recording-with-wolves-hyenas-and-a-black-footed-albatross hfyz33iGE9rJrhm5Xu73Wk Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:08:32 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ If you ever wanted to hear a whiskey-voiced Gene Simmons crooning a jazz standard, now's your chance ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/gene-simmons-stormy-weather PG8C3Mz4g9gcbrxHSMoTZc Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:47:14 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Donner pay tribute to 80s ECM jazz on new single Grey Skies Over Stridsklev ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/donner-pay-tribute-to-80s-ecm-jazz-on-new-single-grey-skies-over-stridsklev mw7janw8atxmhUsaBKaFLL Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:01:39 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Jazz Sabbath to release third album The 1968 Tapes ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/jazz-sabbath-to-release-third-album-the-1968-tapes RAqq4YJzxbsjxtzAnYyCue Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:29:38 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I had, like, 18 whiskies”: The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to post-rock idol Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/julie-christmas-wins-ham-singing-karaoke-context-2024 EgZx3cbUGD2rorUbGfqCjg Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:04:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Tangent jazz things up with new single The Fine Line ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-tangent-jazz-things-up-with-new-single-the-fine-line B3vFDMWnm5LziNCYQyenUg Fri, 10 May 2024 10:08:41 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ "You probably think it's easy being up here. Singing and everything, and playing. It's not. It's not easy": Acid days and ragtime jazz with Dan Hicks, an American eccentric ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/dan-hicks-story UNUvFKsBaEFR8SL8qN4fpm Tue, 06 Feb 2024 03:30:33 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ “You get a few people that bring notepads and binoculars, but a lot of people find the fun aspect appealing… It’s not prog because it’s silly, it’s not jazz because it’s loud and it’s not rock because it’s weird”: So what are The Aristocrats? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/aristocrats-tres-caballeos 6e5oUCiEdvXW3kNiprHTXH Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The whole thing sounds like it was carved out of caramel and boiled in a pot with gunpowder, sunshine and jazz – mad and lovely and addictive": Was The 3 Clubmen EP the best record you missed in 2023? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/the-3-clubmen-EP A2EkU2mZnB5Ce7aVbH4dzn Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:44:25 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Dwarves with trays of cocaine on their heads? It never happened. Well, I never saw it. Actually, it could have been true...": What really happened at Queen's most outrageous party ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/queen-jazz-party-new-orleans-1978 4KNAAPedfZUC3Up9DtXqGa Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:09:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I never realised how funky Dave was!": Watch a jazz professor at elite music school Juilliard try to play Dave Grohl's drum parts on Nirvana classic In Bloom without having ever heard the song ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/funky-dave-jazz-professor-nirvana-in-bloom yeCWwfpcKDpHBQfV3X24tB Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:16:59 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I was interested in being on stage with people who are not only comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen next, but would rather not know”: Bill Bruford’s journey through jazz and prog ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/bill-bruford-jazz-to-prog DsbYRQMxxepuPk8ziCjPHh Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:54:27 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Rock is the cult music of the 21st century, in the same way that jazz became a cult. Maybe that’s not a bad thing”: Steven Wilson says the days of rock bands selling a million records are over ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/steven-wilson-rock-cult-music RqTMMaqeNCzQDJPoAqnGrf Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:06:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The interesting thing is that she copies Robert Wyatt’s phrasing exactly”: the weird connection between Whitney Houston and the 60s UK prog scene ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/whitney-houston-soft-machine-prog-cover RiFDUUJjeDcyV6WH5yddYV Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:59:01 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Steven Wilson shares new ten-minute "mash-up of progressive rock, spiritual jazz and electronica" Impossible Tightrope ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/steven-wilson-shares-ten-minute-long-new-track-impossible-tightrope njg8snYCktPLAiQkLGZw75 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:58:04 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ John Lennon wanted to produce them, Pat Metheny said he wouldn’t have played jazz fusion without them, and Rick Wakeman claimed he played the greatest organ solo ever: Rod Argent looks back on his time with the Zombies and Argent ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/rod-argent-the-zombies-interview enD4BSB47cN47ve38m4rXS Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:17:20 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Norwegian jazz rockers The Verge sign to Is It Jazz? Records ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/norwegian-jazz-rockers-the-verge-sign-to-is-it-jazz-records bZTvqJgJ6n4HdMyRWwZc2c Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:28:26 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ Norwegian jazz proggers Krokofant sign to Is It Jazz? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/norwegian-jazz-proggers-krokofant-sign-to-is-it-jazz f5Tepr5qwxJ9dWr4ZTqFMa Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:33:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Meet Nutty, the LA jazzers tackling the classic rock catalogue ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/meet-nutty-the-la-jazzers-tackling-the-classic-rock-catalogue 2DQdUkv24uvQ5ptb6zeKWD Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:12:00 +0000 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:17:09 +0000