Nov 29, 2016 5:05 PM
Lovano, Valdés Create Synergy at New York’s Birdland
Joe Lovano and Chucho Valdés first met in 1986, when Lovano played the Havana Jazz Festival with Charlie Haden’s…
Nov 29, 2016 5:05 PM
Joe Lovano and Chucho Valdés first met in 1986, when Lovano played the Havana Jazz Festival with Charlie Haden’s…
Nov 29, 2016 5:00 PM
There may be some poetic justice in the fact that Jazztopad, one of the more innovative and important of the…
Nov 29, 2016 4:53 PM
Deelee Dubé’s performance during the final round of the 2016 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in…
Nov 22, 2016 4:26 PM
NEA Jazz Master Cándido Camero is among the last contemporaries of Cuban conguero Chano Pozo, who, in the late 1940s,…
Nov 21, 2016 4:39 PM
Festival producer Michael Kline escaped Hurricane Katrina in 2005, leaving his beloved New Orleans behind and returning…
Nov 18, 2016 12:42 PM
The 20th edition of Edgefest in Ann Arbor, Michigan, took place Oct. 26–29 and fulfilled all its promises. It showcased…
Nov 18, 2016 12:34 PM
Boogie-woogie is an inherently jubilant musical genre—even its very name can bring a giggle to your lips. So the SF…
Nov 18, 2016 12:34 PM
By posing the event’s name as a question, the So What’s Next? Festival hopes to pique audience interest in “below…
Nov 17, 2016 4:00 PM
For its 20th-anniversary edition, which took place Nov. 9–12, the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival, curated by…
Nov 17, 2016 3:52 PM
The harbingers of a deep winter had arrived in Tampere, Finland, in early November, with diminishing daylight,…