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Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, won the $50,000 first prize at the 2026 Herbie Hancock Institute International Jazz Vocals Competition, the first edition held outside the United States.
Dieter Glawischnig, the Austrian pianist, composer and educator who turned a German radio dance orchestra into one of Europe's leading jazz big bands, died on Oct. 1 at 88, the broadcaster NDR announced.
The Rochester International Jazz Festival launched its first year-round concert series on Oct. 15 with New York Voices, the vocal quartet now on its Grand Finale farewell tour. Six more monthly concerts run through May 2027.
A KAIST research team says its AI pianist, Scott, and AI accompanist, DeepPocket, performed 26 pieces with 12 human jazz artists at South Korea's Jarasum Jazz Festival, following live tempo changes and generating solos and backing in real time.
Sam Noto, the Buffalo-born jazz trumpeter who played in the bands of Stan Kenton, Count Basie and Woody Herman and later recorded a run of bebop albums for Xanadu, died Oct. 16, 2026. He was 96.
The Newest One, recorded by Jimmy Heath and his big band in late 2018 and unreleased at his death in 2020, will come out Nov. 20 on BCM+D Records, the label says, marking his centennial.
First-round voting for the 2027 GRAMMY Awards runs Oct. 12–22. Several large-ensemble jazz artists, including Patricia Brennan, Miguel Zenón and Helen Sung, have publicly asked voters to consider their albums.
German singer Dieter Thomas Kuhn and the SWR Big Band released Gute Laune mit Posaune on Oct. 9: 14 schlager classics in new big band arrangements by Rainer Tempel, in the band's 75th anniversary year.
The 2026 All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards were presented in London on Oct. 13. Winners include Yazz Ahmed, Heidi Vogel, Knats and Iain Ballamy, along with the first recipient of a new award for music hubs and school music services.