Aruán Ortiz's Créole Renaissance now on sale, rain and reunions at the 45th Saalfelden Jazz Festival in Austria and this weekend's highlights at the 50th Willisau Jazz Festival. See you there!

Someone who wishes to produce free music with empathy needs to be a good host, an attentive listener and a critical companion, above all however, an enthusiast or, to advocate for a word which threatens to become old-fashioned, but is by no means obsolete, an idealist.

Explosions of sound under open skies, stories from the GDR, and a moving finale with Gumpert and Sommer – the Peitz 2025 Jazz Festival rekindles the spirit of resistance.

No image captures the music of Irène's Hot Four live recording from 1981 (Intakt CD 438) better than Giuseppe Reichmuth's collage featuring a burning piano keyboard. Irène Schweizer's music has become an image, and the image has become music. Several...

Alexander Hawkins wins in the Rising Star Organist of the Year category in Downbeat Magazine's 73rd Critics Poll.

Marta Sanchez wins the Rising Star Pianist of the Year category in Downbeat Magazine's 73rd Critics Poll.

Our very own James Brandon Lewis sits comfortably at the top of the Artist of the Year list and the Tenor Saxophonist of the Year list for 2025. See the full results in Downbeat Magazine's latest issue as well as...

Ingrid Laubrock wins both the Rising Star Composer of the Year category and the Rising Star Large Ensemble of the Year with her orchestra.

The three-day Intakt Records Festival to celebrate the German Record Critics' Award 2025 to Patrik Landolt at the Loft in Cologne was a complete success: all concerts sold out, a great atmosphere all round and lots of enthusiasm among the...