Apr 16, 2024 12:28 PM
Harrison’s ‘Passion’ Mixes Hard Swing, Trap Hip-Hop
“If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” That sage advice from Charlie Parker became Big Chief…
“Einstein was a violinist, Max Planck was also a musician and Stefon Alexander plays saxophone,” says Donald Harrison about the relationship between science and music.
Apr 16, 2024 12:28 PM
“If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” That sage advice from Charlie Parker became Big Chief…
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…
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, one of 52 grant recipients, received $40,000 to return to his hometown in North Carolina and create a music work space .
Oct 19, 2021 3:41 PM
South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, awarded $2 million in grants in October to support jazz musicians…
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,…
Johnaye Kendrick is set to stream a performance with her quartet on Friday.
Oct 23, 2020 9:51 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Pianist Bethany Pickens (left), bassist Junius Paul, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, drummer Charles Heath and trumpeter Marquis Hill pay tribute to Willie Pickens at an April 18 memorial concert at Chicago’s Studebaker Theater.
Apr 20, 2018 2:49 PM
Pianist Willie Pickens, who died Dec. 12, 2017, was an exemplary yet modest man. Gifted with world-class instrumental…
Jimmy Greene will perform at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, which takes place Aug. 6–7 in Goshen, Connecticut. Greene’s 2014 CD is titlted Beautiful Life.
Aug 22, 2016 4:39 PM
Saxophonists Jimmy Greene, Donald Harrison, Don Braden and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath are among the headliners…
