Jun 10, 2025 4:58 PM
Dan Tepfer House Concert Gives Insights into His Writing Process
On the night of May 16, Dan Tepfer found himself working on the 68th floor of an apartment tower directly across the…
“I like to think of composition, especially in jazz, as setting up a system of constraints and finding the freedom within those constraints,” said pianist Dan Tepfer, shown here with saxophonist Ben Wendel.
Jun 10, 2025 4:58 PM
On the night of May 16, Dan Tepfer found himself working on the 68th floor of an apartment tower directly across the…
“I love working with fully developed artists, getting into their world and learning from them,” says Ben Wendel.
Aug 29, 2023 12:12 PM
For many musicians who found themselves under a veritable house arrest during the COVID lockdown of 2020–’21, the…
Vocalist Gregory Porter performs at the Funchal Jazz Festival, which ran July 11-13, in Madeira, an archipelago southwest of Portugal.
Jul 22, 2019 12:11 PM
Madeira is a volcanically formed, mountainous archipelago of sweeping hillsides and winding streets chockablock with…
Drummer Rocky Martin (left), bassist Hannah Marks and tenor saxophonist Barclay Moffitt perform as Heartland Trio.
Apr 26, 2019 2:41 PM
Des Moines, Iowa-born bassist Hannah Marks, a senior jazz studies major at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana…
Josh Johnson (left), Alex Boneham, Jay Bellerose and Jeff Parker perform at ETA in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood.
Jan 7, 2019 12:16 PM
When bassist Anna Butterss moved to Los Angeles in 2014, her plan was to stay for no more than a year. Her main draw to…
Saxophonist Ben Wendel has released The Seasons, a cache of music initially dispensed through YouTube, and also is amid another series of videos, Standards With Friends.
Nov 2, 2018 10:52 AM
Modern musicians are faced with an interesting dilemma these days, as they struggle to be heard in a world of myriad…
