Sep 28, 2021 3:14 PM
Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2021–’22 Lineup
Jazz at Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for its 2021–’22 season of live, in-person performances.
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Saxophonist Camille Thurman, above, and the Darrell Green Quartet will reimagine the music of Burt Bacharach in June.
Sep 28, 2021 3:14 PM
Jazz at Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for its 2021–’22 season of live, in-person performances.
The…
A cavalcade of stars will be performing on Friday, April 30.
Apr 27, 2021 11:04 AM
The 10th annual International Jazz Day will be celebrated Friday, April 30, and this year’s event promises to be more…
A live Alice Coltrane recording from 1972 marks a turning point in her music.
Jun 12, 2020 8:50 AM
Festivals in the States still aren’t happening, though some in Europe are moving ahead despite the uncertainty around…
Vocalist Dianne Reeves is among the jazz stars who will take part in an April 30 live-streamed concert to celebrate International Jazz Day.
May 1, 2020 8:46 AM
Vocalist Dianne Reeves, guitarist John Scofield, organist Joey DeFrancesco and saxophonist Igor Butman are among the…
Wynton Marsalis and Jazz At Lincoln Center are set to host their annual gala online.
Apr 14, 2020 3:50 PM
In a profound improvisational act, Jazz At Lincoln Center is set to host its annual gala online.
Streaming from…
Danilo Pérez speaks during a clinic at the Panama Jazz Festival, which ran Jan. 13-17 in Panama City, Panama.
Jan 27, 2020 11:24 AM
The Panama Jazz Festival provided a vibrant daily schedule, chock-a-block with a dizzying array of classroom…
Clark Terry (1920–2015)
Jan 2, 2020 9:16 AM
While many listeners discovered Clark Terry during his time with The Tonight Show band in the 1960s and ’70s, a new…
Robert Glasper (foreground) and Herbie Hancock in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.
Nov 13, 2019 4:32 PM
Swiss-born director Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Eagle Vision), which coincides with the…
French violinist Théo Ceccaldi performs with his ensemble, Freaks, during the Belgrade Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 21-28 in the Serbian capital.
Nov 8, 2019 1:41 PM
On the penultimate evening of the 35th annual Belgrade Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 21-28 in the Serbian capital,…
Chick Corea’s Trilogy, which also includes bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, are set to play the 2019/20 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago on Nov. 1.
Oct 7, 2019 9:40 AM
The 2019/2020 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago is set to return Nov. 1.
During the past two-plus…
Kenny Barron will release a three-disc set of duets with the late Mulgrew Miller on Oct. 18. The 76-year-old pianist and bandleader also has a trio project in the works with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Johnathan Blake.
Sep 30, 2019 2:52 PM
Last year, Blue Note released Kenny Barron’s leader debut for the label: Concentric Circles, a tour de force for…
Dianne Reeves, seen here at the 2012 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, returns to the festival this year.
Jul 29, 2019 9:25 AM
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, which is celebrating its 30th edition Aug. 9–11 with headliners such as Gregory Porter,…
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…
Chucho Valdes (left), Omara Portuondo and Dianne Reeves each performed during the Jan. 31 SFJAZZ Gala at the the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.
Feb 5, 2019 10:23 AM
Like a jewel proudly situated alongside some of San Francisco’s most significant performing arts institutions, the…
Pat Metheny (left), Joanne Brackeen, Todd Barkan, bassist Christian McBride, singer Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves and guitarist Nir Felder at the 2018 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert on April 16 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
May 12, 2018 6:22 PM
“We’re all partners in time. And this music makes time our friend, not an implacable foe,” said Grammy-winning…
The 2018 class of NEA Jazz Masters includes Dianne Reeves, Todd Barkan, Joanne Brackeen and Pat Metheny.
Jul 5, 2017 1:07 PM
Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, Todd Barkan and Joanne Brackeen have joined the ranks of the nation’s highest honor in…
Diane Reeves (left), Dee Dee Bridgewater and Esperanza Spalding pay homage to Abbey Lincoln during a tribute performance held in honor of the late singer at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 6.
May 10, 2017 5:40 PM
The Apollo Theater’s Abbey Lincoln Tribute, the centerpiece of its four day Women of the World (WOW) Festival, was a…
Dave Liebman (left) and Joe Lovano pay tribute to their friend and colleague, the late Michael Brecker, at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Jan. 25.
Feb 7, 2017 3:45 PM
On Jan. 25, 10 years and 12 days after the iconic tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker died of myelodysplastic syndrome,…
Vocalist Dianne Reeves is the recipient of a 2016 USA Fellowship Award.
Nov 17, 2016 3:51 PM
Singer Dianne Reeves, pianists Randy Weston and Vijay Iyer and drummer Mike Reed are among the 46 artists who have been…
Dee Dee Bridgewater (left) Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, President Obama and Kurt Elling celebrate International Jazz Day in Washington, D.C., April 29.
Mar 27, 2019 10:36 AM
Bittersweet moments seeped into the International Jazz Day Global Concert held in Washington, D.C., on April 29. After…
Apr 5, 2016 11:43 AM
Sarah Vaughan is still packing them in—based, at least, on the crowd drawn to Newark Symphony Hall, where, on March 29…
