Aug 13, 2024 12:07 PM
Engagement, Exuberance Distinguish Montreal Jazz Festival
In its third edition since rebounding from senior management changes and COVID-related disruptions, the 44th Festival…
A concert of duets featuring trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and bassist Dave Holland was cerebral and unhurried at this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival.
Aug 13, 2024 12:07 PM
In its third edition since rebounding from senior management changes and COVID-related disruptions, the 44th Festival…
Robert Glasper will perform all three days in different musical settings.
Jun 8, 2021 1:01 PM
The Newport Jazz Festival has announced that tickets are now on sale for this year’s event July 30–Aug. 1 with a…
The Wayne Escoffery/Jeremy Pelt Quartet kicked off the spring outdoor series on April 4.
Apr 7, 2021 10:42 AM
Giant Step Arts and Keyed Up! have launched a spring performance series called “Walk With The Wind” honoring…
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Apr 6, 2021 11:37 AM
What’s streaming this week? Try Chris Potter and Craig Taborn, Alligator Records at 50, Bob James and Paul Howard,…
While recording There Is A Tide, Chris Potter was able to focus on thinking like a producer.
Dec 30, 2020 8:55 AM
An uncanny lightness runs through There Is A Tide, saxophonist Chris Potter’s latest full-length album, one where he…
SFJAZZ is set to rebroadcast a performance by Maceo Parker on New Year’s Eve.
Dec 29, 2020 8:26 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Kurt Elling is set to stream a performance on Friday.
Oct 19, 2020 8:59 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Saxophonist Chris Potter (left), tabla player Zakir Hussain and bassist Dave Holland
Oct 31, 2019 10:20 AM
A particularly compelling moment during concerts by Crosscurrents, a seven-member ensemble that world-renowned tabla…
Wayne Shorter (shown here in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes) won three categories in the 2019 DownBeat Readers Poll: Jazz Artist, Jazz Album (for Emanon) and Soprano Saxophone.
Oct 21, 2019 6:56 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 84th Annual Readers Poll.
Wayne Shorter is a huge winner in…
James Francies arranged a version of Rufus’ “Ain’t Nobody” for his debut album, which was met with approval from the song’s original singer, Chaka Khan.
Apr 13, 2020 1:26 PM
Jazz pianism today stands at an apex.
There have been other moments in the music’s history when innovation rushed…
Johnathan Blake takes musical cues from his late father, John Blake Jr., a violinist who performed with McCoy Tyner and Archie Shepp.
May 7, 2019 9:40 AM
It’s a biting-cold January day in Manhattan.
The wind howls around corners and between the buildings with…
Eric Harland (left), Chris Potter and James Francies have recorded a new album, Circuits.
Apr 16, 2019 9:22 AM
Saxophonist Chris Potter’s new album, Circuits, simultaneously is a step forward and a return to earlier territory.…
Drummer Eric Harland teamed with tenor saxophonist Daniel Rovin and bassist Austin White to found the label GSI Records.
Nov 24, 2018 11:20 PM
One of the more intriguing new labels of 2018 is GSI Records, co-owned by drummer Eric Harland, tenor saxophonist…
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…
Thundercat performs at the 39th Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Jul 16, 2018 10:02 AM
Last year, Montreal native Leonard Cohen was immortalized in a 20-story mural in the city’s downtown. Cohen’s image…
Pianist and vocalist Alina Engibaryan included only one cover on her recently released sophomore album, We Are.
Mar 1, 2018 1:47 PM
Pianist and vocalist Alina Engibaryan recently issued We Are on Feb. 16. And today, she debuts a video for a live…
BOP Trio, which comprises bassist Linda May Han Oh (from left), drummer Johnathan Blake and saxophonist Chris Potter, recently played Giant Step Arts’ opening event, a two-night run at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery.
Feb 5, 2018 2:13 PM
It’s hard to think of a jazz photographer with a more personal and identifiable pictorial personality than Jimmy Katz,…
Drummer Johnathan Blake will lead a trio during Giant Step Arts’ kick-off events, which are scheduled for Sunday and Monday at the Jazz Gallery in New York.
Jan 18, 2018 1:17 PM
Photographer and producer Jimmy Katz has founded a new nonprofit endeavor that will support jazz musicians.
Giant Step…
Drummer Eric Harland leads Voyager and plays in a handful of other ensembles.
Jan 12, 2018 9:54 AM
It’s been said that clothes make the man. In the case of in-demand drummer and bandleader Eric Harland, sartorial…
Anat Cohen (left) and the members of Trio Brasileiro—Douglas Lora, Dudu Maia and Alexandre Lora—collaborated on the Grammy-nominated album Rosa Dos Ventos (Anzic).
Dec 4, 2017 4:33 PM
Clarinetist Anat Cohen, pianist Fred Hersch, saxophonist Chris Potter, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, organist Joey…
Saxophonist Chris Potter (left), bassist Dave Holland and tabla player Zakir Hussain of the band Crosscurrents.
Nov 17, 2017 8:55 AM
From John Coltrane in the ’60s to current stars Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dan Weiss in the 21st century, the influence…
Wynton Marsalis is the newest inductee in the DownBeat Hall of Fame.
Nov 7, 2017 12:00 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 82nd Annual Readers Poll.
Wynton Marsalis topped the Trumpet…
Glenn Zaleski (left), Melissa Aldana, Philip Dizack, Pablo Menares and Craig Weinrib perform at the San Francisco Jazz Festival on June 13.
Jun 20, 2017 4:20 PM
Before the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, SFJAZZ’s flagship programming was its San Francisco Jazz Festival…
Lionel Loueke (left), Dave Holland, Chris Potter and Eric Harland are Aziza. The supergroup performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 6.
May 10, 2017 5:03 PM
During this baseball season, it’s a treat to sit in the crowded wooden bleacher seats of Fenway Park in Boston under…
Trumpeter Alex Sipiagin recruited tenor saxophonist Chris Potter and other formidable players for the album Moments Captured.
Feb 15, 2019 3:44 PM
The following is an expanded version of an article that appeared in the June 2017 issue of DownBeat:
Last fall, Alex…
Dave Holland, a newly named NEA Jazz Master, performs at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz.
May 2, 2017 11:31 AM
As he demonstrated time and again on the bandstand of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, on April 6,…
Dave Holland (left) and Chris Potter perform at the Tampere Jazz Happening in Tampere, Finland, on Nov. 6.
Dec 7, 2016 3:06 PM
The harbingers of a deep winter had arrived in Tampere, Finland, in early November, with diminishing daylight,…
Roy Hargrove performs at the Detroit Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Sep 27, 2016 11:43 AM
Jazz is urban music, and no festival feels quite so urban as the Detroit Jazz Festival, which took place over Labor Day…
Chris Potter performs at the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, on April 27.
Jul 11, 2016 12:20 PM
The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when the Soviet period was coming to an…
