This year's edition of Malmö's Intonal marks the festival's tenth anniversary. From its early days as a collaboration with Berlin's CTM and Krakow's famed Unsound festival, Intonal has grown into a thing completely of its own. Rather than trying to copy the successful but heavily international scene-driven formulas of other European festivals, it focused on cultivating a close relationship with the local audience – from the festival's intimate setting to the lineup, designed to both reflect the interests of the Malmö scene and showcase its talent. Some of the reasons for this are beautifully explained in the festival manifesto in the words of none other than the great Shania Twain.

GNOM & Jonas Eika. Foto via locomusic.dk. I dag begynder årets udgave af Vinterjazz. Med et omfattende program af koncerter på tværs af adskillige danske byer præsenteres både mere konventionelle navne og eksperimenterende grupper og solister inden for jazzen – og måske også meget mere end dét? For hvor er egentlig  det jazzede i GBs alternative popmusik, Damkapellets kollektivistiske kompositionsmusik eller Slim0s ...