Apr 5, 2022 4:57 PM
NEA Inducts 2022 Jazz Masters at SFJAZZ Center Tribute Concert
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) formally inducted its four new Jazz Masters on the eve of Jazz Appreciation…
Newly inducted NEA Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke (left), Billy Hart and Donald Harrison Jr. at SFJAZZ Center on March 31.
Apr 5, 2022 4:57 PM
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) formally inducted its four new Jazz Masters on the eve of Jazz Appreciation…
The 2022 NEA Jazz Masters
Mar 29, 2022 2:45 PM
All four of this year’s NEA Jazz Masters honorees — Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison Jr., Billy Hart and Cassandra…
This year’s honorees.
Mar 8, 2022 3:00 PM
The National Endowment for the Arts 2022 NEA Jazz Masters will be honored March 31 in collaboration with SFJAZZ at the…
Brian Charette plans to stream a set marking the release of a new album on Saturday.
Dec 4, 2020 10:01 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan is set to mark her 92nd birthday with a livestreamed performance on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Nov 19, 2020 10:57 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Pianist Jarrett Cherner and vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles and are set to stream a Friday performance.
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…
Organist Joey DeFrancesco recently earned a Grammy nomination for his album In The Key Of The Universe.
Dec 12, 2019 5:18 PM
In the wake of his recent Grammy nomination, Joey DeFrancesco has released a live music video for his composition…
Joel Ross and Good Vibes celebrate the vinyl release of Kingmaker on Friday, Aug. 2 at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Ross—who also played with Makaya McCraven and with the collective In Common—performed three sets in two days during the festival.
Aug 12, 2019 1:45 PM
By the time Paul Gonsalves shook up Fort Adams with 27 blistering choruses in 1956, the Newport Jazz Festival already…
João Gilberto (1931–2019)
Aug 16, 2019 4:38 PM
To mark the passing of João Gilberto, we’re revisiting the piece below, which originally ran in our March 2016…
Marquis Hill Blacktet is set to play 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 at The University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
Aug 27, 2018 10:35 AM
The University of Chicago Presents series marks its 75th season with a mixture of classical, new music and jazz…
Saxophonist Joe Lovano (left), bassist Drew Gress, guitarist John Scofield and drummer Adam Nussbaum pay tribute to John Abercrombie at a recent performance in Brooklyn at Roulette.
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…
The Cookers members Billy Harper, David Weiss and Eddie Henderson perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on May 6.
May 16, 2017 11:49 AM
If you’ve heard the five CDs recorded by veteran jazz septet The Cookers, you know these seasoned pros deliver fire…
Scott Colley (let), Ambrose Akinmusire, Brian Blade and Wolfgang Muthspiel perform at the Miner Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 26 as part of an ECM label spotlight at SFJAZZ.
Mar 7, 2017 4:34 PM
SFJAZZ recently presented its second extended weekend of musicians who record for the ECM label. Doubling down on the…
Billy Hart performs as part of The Cookers at the PDX Jazz Festival in Portland, Oregon, on Feb. 18.
Feb 24, 2017 11:21 AM
One of the many pleasures of a jazz festival is the parade of rhythm sections, and the first four days of this year’s…
Kenny Barron (left), Reggie Workman, Al Foster and Jimmy Heath participate in a memorial ceremony for bassist Bob Cranshaw at St. Peter’s Church in New York City on Jan. 30.
Feb 3, 2017 4:23 PM
New York’s St. Peter’s Church was packed to the rafters on Jan. 26. Dozens of spectators crowded into the venue’s…
Billy Hart (second from left), performs at Upstairs in Montreal with bassist Rémi LeBlanc, trombonist Jean-Nicolas Trottier and pianist Jean-Michel Pilc.
Feb 9, 2017 4:02 PM
There was magic at Montreal’s Upstairs Bar & Grill throughout the last weekend of January, when veteran drummer and…
Billy Hart was spotlighted at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival June 4–5.
Jun 28, 2016 3:27 PM
Two hallmarks of a great jazz festival are unique programming and a deep history. The 18th Annual Healdsburg Jazz…
