Oct 19, 2021 3:41 PM
South Arts Awards $2 Million in Grants to Jazz Musicians
South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, awarded $2 million in grants in October to support jazz musicians…
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…
Veronica Swift has both a historical connection to the music and a desire to expand its artistic purview.
Dec 3, 2020 8:58 AM
Welcome to our enthusiastic, optimistic look at the future.
Below, DownBeat presents short profiles of two dozen…
Fabian Almazan is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 9, 2020 9:04 AM
Pianist Fabian Almazan has a distinct recollection of an incident that took place years ago at the Village Vanguard,…
Saxophonist Nubya Garcia performs at the 2018 Melbourne Jazz Festival, one of many large-scale events pivoting online because of the pandemic.
Jun 11, 2020 9:06 AM
As Jazzfest Passau in Germany plans to continue outdoor events and Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto adapts to its…
Linda May Han Oh and Fabian Almazan have used the Crowdcast platform to livestream performances from their home in New York.
Jun 9, 2020 8:52 AM
We are currently “living in unprecedented times.”
Pundits have drummed this phrase into our collective psyche…
Egberto Gismonti flew to New York from his home in Brazil for ECM Records at 50, a Nov. 1 and 2 celebration of the imprint at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
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…
Pat Metheny is a touchstone for Camila Meza, who covers the guitarist’s collaboration with David Bowie on Ámbar, her latest recording.
Jul 10, 2019 9:34 AM
Singer-songwriter Camila Meza jumped at the opportunity to attempt her own hybrid when bassist Noam Wiesenberg…
Bassist and bandleader Linda May Han Oh calls Aventurine her most ambitious compositional work to date.
May 31, 2019 9:18 AM
Linda May Han Oh has gotten used to carrying her double bass up the four flights of stairs to the Harlem walk-up she…
Pianist Fabian Almazan’s This Land Abounds With Life is set for release June 14 on his own Biophilia imprint.
May 20, 2019 2:24 PM
A bandleader, composer and member of Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective, pianist Fabian Almazan synthesizes a…
