Dec 11, 2020 3:03 PM
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…
Eddie Palmieri is set to stream a performance on Saturday.
Dec 11, 2020 3:03 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Bassist and bandleader Matt Ulery has been playing outdoor gigs around Chicago recently, a way to retain creative energy during the pandemic.
Jul 30, 2020 8:55 AM
The last time Chicago bassist Matt Ulery played a club gig was March 11.
Since then, like most musicians, he’s…
Anthony Braxton performs Nov. 3 with his Zim Music ensemble during Jazzfest Berlin.
Nov 14, 2019 10:15 AM
Halfway through composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton’s six-hour opening performance at Jazzfest Berlin,…
Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid premieres a new work durning the annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 28-29 at locations around the South Side of Chicago.
Oct 4, 2019 11:14 AM
A strong community feeling permeated The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 28-29 across twelve different…
Angel Bat Dawid’s The Oracle splices together sonic fragments, spoken word and more.
Mar 22, 2019 9:34 AM
Angel Bat Dawid, a Chicago-based avant-garde composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, hails from seven…
On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jan 4, 2019 12:27 PM
During 2018, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
The performers in Angel Bat Dawid’s Cosmic Love Arkestra include elders of the Chicago jazz scene, who the composer said “are very important to me.”
Apr 16, 2018 4:23 PM
A new “cosmic love opera” based on the biblical Song Of Solomon and featuring legendary free-jazz musicians is set…
