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Organizers have cancelled Love Supreme Jazz Festival Japan 2026, which was scheduled for Nov. 15 at Tokyo's SGC Hall Ariake, citing unavoidable circumstances in a statement released Nov. 4.
Elemental Music will release Blue Moon Over Paris: ORTF Recordings 1963–1968, a deluxe double LP of two previously unreleased Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Paris concerts, for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov. 27.
Mercury Prize-shortlisted drummer, composer and producer Moses Boyd has released Songs for Sinners, his long-awaited second album, on the Exodus label, drawing on gospel, jazz and sound-system culture.
Jacques Bolognesi, the French trombonist and accordionist who worked with Martial Solal, Michel Legrand and Antoine Hervé's Orchestre National de Jazz, has died at 79, Jazz Magazine reported on Oct. 31.
Saxophonist, flutist and composer Anna Webber has released it's easier to imagine the end of the world..., a nonet album on Intakt Records with Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, David Virelles and Ches Smith, built from six extended compositions inspired by writers addressing late-stage capitalism.
Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil received the Grand Prix of Europe and saxophonist Henryk Miśkiewicz was named Artist of the Year at the 34th Grand Prix Jazz Melomani gala, held Oct. 30 at the Grand Theatre in Łódź, Poland.
Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, born 100 years ago on Nov. 1, 1926, will be honored on Nov. 9 with an inaugural memorial concert in his hometown of Badin, North Carolina, and a centennial celebration at Dizzy's Club in New York led by Champian Fulton.
Jazzfest Berlin's 63rd edition ended on Nov. 1 with Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra, which returned 60 years after its festival debut and, according to UK Jazz News, left the Haus der Berliner Festspiele to a standing ovation.
German pianist Michael Wollny's new solo album, eine winterreise, out now on ACT, reimagines Franz Schubert's song cycle with newly composed and improvised passages and motifs from Björk, Kate Bush and Louis Cole.
Saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Pauli Lyytinen received the 2026 Yrjö Award, Finland's most prestigious jazz prize, on Oct. 30 at Tampere Jazz Happening, where the Finnish Jazz Federation also honored the century-old Dallapé orchestra and young saxophonist Oona Mattsson.
Jimmy Madison, the Cincinnati-born drummer and producer who began playing professionally as a child and went on to work with Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, James Brown and Chet Baker, died of cancer on Oct. 29 in New York City. He was 79.
The 46th SWR Jazzpreis, Germany's oldest jazz award, will be presented to pianist Olga Reznichenko on Saturday, Oct. 31, at the BASF Gesellschaftshaus in Ludwigshafen as part of the Enjoy Jazz festival, followed by a concert with her new project, Olga's Magic Square.