Jan 27, 2021 9:53 AM
What To Stream This Week
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Trumpeter Jaimie Branch—along with bassist Luke Stewart and altoist Devin Brahja Waldman—is set to stream a Thursday performance.
Jan 27, 2021 9:53 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
The members of Artemis are drummer Allison Miller (left), pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, bassist Noriko Ueda, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, clarinetist Anat Cohen and tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana.
Sep 30, 2020 9:00 AM
Last fall, Blue Note Records made history by signing pianist Renee Rosnes’ adventurous septet, Artemis, to its…
Mark Guiliana performs during Winter Jazzfest, which ran at various venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn between Jan. 8 and 18.
Feb 3, 2020 4:47 PM
Winter JazzFest’s already tremendous musical scope has been widening in recent years to include crucial ideas and…
Chick Corea’s Trilogy, which also includes bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, are set to play the 2019/20 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago on Nov. 1.
Oct 7, 2019 9:40 AM
The 2019/2020 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago is set to return Nov. 1.
During the past two-plus…
Co-artistic Director Derrick Hodge performed multiple sets with various ensembles during the 62nd Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 27-29 in Monterey, California.
Oct 8, 2019 10:17 AM
On the Jimmy Lyons Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 27-29 in Monterey, California,…
For almost a decade, violinist Jenny Scheinman (right) and drummer Allison Miller have worked together in the latter’s Boom Tic Boom ensemble. Their new collaborative group is Parlour Game.
Jun 28, 2019 11:27 AM
Jenny Scheinman admits she’s led a charmed life, as far as her music career goes. The violinist is unlike a number of…
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 3.
Jul 2, 2019 9:46 AM
Singer-songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant is among the artists who topped multiple categories in the 2019 DownBeat…
At age 14, drummer Allison Miller performed at Blues Alley in Washington D.C. with guitarist Charlie Byrd.
Feb 28, 2019 10:01 AM
Much of drummer Allison Miller’s life is about juxtapositions. She’s the creative force behind two related but…
At New York’s Winter Jazzfest on Jan. 12, Allison Miller co-leads an ensemble with pianist Carmen Staaf at Subculture.
Jan 18, 2019 11:05 AM
On display at New York’s Winter Jazzfest is not only a variety of styles, repertoires, concepts and generations, but…
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom is set to release Glitter Wolf (Royal Potato Family) on Feb. 1
Jan 7, 2019 5:06 PM
For most, Málaga, Spain, exists as some theoretical ideal, a coastal city that offers the amenities of modern life…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23–28. Akinmusire’s Origami Harvest earned a 5-star rating in DownBeat during 2018.
Sep 26, 2019 4:45 PM
The list below is a round-up of the 5-star, 4.5-star and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during…
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah performs Sept. 29 at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago.
Oct 12, 2018 9:29 AM
In its 12th year, Chicago’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival presented an almost preposterous amount of quality music on Sept.…
After touring together internationally and playing with various dance projects since 2015, drummer Allison Miller and pianist Carmen Staaf recorded their first co-led album, Science Fair.
Oct 1, 2018 5:18 PM
Science Fair is the dynamic result of collaborative musical experiments in rhythm, feel and composition by drummer…
Melissa Aldana performs with Artemis on Sunday, Aug. 4 on the Fort Stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Jan 10, 2019 12:08 PM
An intense and unrelenting rainstorm pummeled Rhode Island all day Saturday, taking some of the luster off the 2018…
Van Morrison performs at Moldejazz in Molde, Norway.
Jul 24, 2019 4:44 PM
Molde is a small stop on the Norwegian fjord-viewing cruise-ship route. But July 16-21, under skies that never fully…
Roscoe Mitchell (foreground) and Fred Berry perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Sep 6, 2017 10:54 AM
Reeds-and-winds iconoclast Roscoe Mitchell celebrated 50 years of recording. Trumpeter Jon Faddis reveled in Dizzy…
Steve Cardenas (left), Jeremy Pelt, Allison Miller and Ben Allison (the group’s leader) perform at the BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn on Oct. 13.
Oct 19, 2016 9:45 AM
The second edition of the BRIC Jazzfest marathon—held October 13–15 in three separate spaces in BRIC House, the…
Jeff Lederer, Allison Miller and Rene Hart are the Honey Ear Trio. The group performed at Constellation in Chicago on Aug. 5.
Sep 8, 2016 4:11 PM
On Aug. 5 at the cozy experimental venue Constellation, about 40 fans gathered close to the stage for two intensely…
The Mary Lou Williams Festival in Washington, D.C., honors the late singer and pianist, pictured here, who died in 1981.
Jul 11, 2016 12:18 PM
“A drum is a woman” could have easily served as the subtitle for the second night of the 21st annual Mary Lou…
