Dec 5, 2023 1:50 PM
Blindfold Test: Bill Frisell
Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…
Dec 5, 2023 1:50 PM
Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…
Jul 19, 2022 2:17 PM
Remarkably comprehensive and exhaustively researched, Philip Watson’s Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer (Faber Books)…
Apr 12, 2022 1:39 PM
During the opening concert of this year’s Big Ears Festival, a train roared by just as the Kronos Quartet leaned into…
Jan 5, 2021 7:54 AM
The list below is a roundup of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in the print edition of DownBeat during 2020.…
Sep 21, 2020 8:51 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Jun 22, 2020 8:54 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
May 26, 2020 9:47 AM
The harmonica generally isn’t viewed as a supremely versatile instrument, steeped as it is in the blues tradition.…
May 21, 2020 9:50 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Jul 6, 2020 3:07 PM
The latest reminder that guitar icon Bill Frisell remains a road warrior at 68 came in late September, when he…
Dec 27, 2019 9:07 AM
The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…
Nov 8, 2019 1:50 PM
The curation for ECM Records at 50, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s tribute to the famed record label on Nov. 1 and 2 in New…
Oct 29, 2019 9:36 AM
A search for the heart of the ECM Records operation leads to a small, quiet space located on the second floor of a…
Sep 3, 2019 9:35 AM
Growing up in Colorado, drummer Rudy Royston kept busy, playing in church four nights a week and exploring the local…
Aug 20, 2019 9:15 AM
Aging rock musicians from Rod Stewart to Bob Dylan have turned to the Great American Songbook to revive their creative…
Jul 25, 2019 11:37 AM
Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra—a juggernaut of an ensemble incorporating three rhythm sections of bass and…
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…
May 30, 2019 2:08 PM
A festival is supposed to be too much of a good thing. An overabundance, for example, of garlic in Gilroy, California,…
Sep 26, 2018 9:33 AM
Over the course of 30 years, Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival has earned a reputation as one of the premier U.S. jazz…
Oct 1, 2018 12:12 PM
Despite pre-dawn airport pickups and scary midnight rides, bad food and worse sound engineers, there’s a romance to…
Aug 2, 2018 3:50 PM
As collectible, multimedia art objects, few affordable things surpass the long-playing album. And few labels surpass…
May 1, 2018 9:26 AM
Although the Savannah Music Festival embraces all forms of American roots music, most of its jazz programming takes…
Apr 30, 2018 12:22 PM
The line at Roulette went out the door, wrapped around the corner of Third Avenue and ran down Atlantic Avenue in…
Aug 2, 2017 2:24 PM
The 18th annual Funchal Jazz Festival, which transpired July 13–15 in the capital city of Madeira, a Portuguese…
Jul 23, 2017 5:10 PM
Of all the venues that present concerts during the Montreal Jazz Festival, none is more intimate than the 425-seat…
Jun 2, 2017 10:20 PM
When Carl Sandburg died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson hailed the famed poet as “more than the voice of…
Jan 19, 2017 4:37 PM
Following a successful event at Winter JazzFest 2016, select artists from Manfred Eicher’s ECM label performed in an…
Apr 15, 2020 8:38 PM
“OK, we’re gonna play some ‘terrible’ music,” joked iconic altoist Lee Konitz on Aug. 16, before he and the…