Feb 8, 2022 12:12 PM
The Cookers: Inflamed Soul
In July 2020, four months after COVID-19 locked down the world, The Cookers entered Van Gelder Studio to record Look…
The Cookers are, from left, George Cables, Billy Hart, Donald Harrison, Eddie Henderson, David Weiss, Billy Harper and Cecil McBee.
Feb 8, 2022 12:12 PM
In July 2020, four months after COVID-19 locked down the world, The Cookers entered Van Gelder Studio to record Look…
New Orleans readies for this year’s return of the Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Feb 8, 2022 12:05 PM
There was a lot riding on the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where tens of thousands of music…
The Fred Hersch Trio playing at the Jazz Forum in New York.
Feb 8, 2022 12:02 PM
Vulnerability is part and parcel of Fred Hersch’s pianism. But on the night of Jan. 28, with a potentially hazardous…
Rosanna Vitro tapped legends like Sheila Jordan to join her in tribute to Charlie Parker.
Feb 8, 2022 11:58 AM
Roseanna Vitro is a Grammy-nominated vocalist, a member of the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame, a jazz ambassador for the…
“There’s so much history right in Washington, D.C.,” Christian McBride said about bringing his music about the Civil Rights Movement to the nation’s capital.
Feb 1, 2022 3:27 PM
Bassist Christian McBride is bringing his ambitious civil rights music, which was 20 years in the making, to The…
“I wanted to start thinking of something larger than this world,” says Miho Hazama.
Feb 1, 2022 2:45 PM
They say good things happen in threes, and for 35-year-old New York composer and bandleader Miho Hazama that certainly…
“Where else could this happen than New York?” Joe Farnsworth says about his favorite city.
Feb 1, 2022 2:42 PM
Drummer Joe Farnsworth, like countless other New York musicians, was largely out of work for more than a…
Thundercat makes his small-screen debut in a new Star Wars series episode.
Feb 1, 2022 2:40 PM
Genre-busting bassist Thundercat has crossed over into film as he makes his acting debut in The Book of Boba Fett, the…
“For me, Roy Hargrove was one of the most dedicated stewards of this music, the Black American tradition,” said trumpeter Theo Croker, who considered Hargrove a mentor.
Jan 25, 2022 12:13 PM
Three years after he passed away on Nov. 2, 2018, at age 49, trumpeter Roy Hargrove enters the DownBeat Hall of Fame.…
Don Byron pulls no punches while taking the “Test.”
Jan 25, 2022 12:03 PM
It’s hard to think of a jazz, Afro-Caribbean or new music/classical genre upon which Don Byron, an immediately…
