Dec 21, 2021 12:54 PM
NYC Winter JazzFest Readies for Anything
If COVID cooperates, there will be a live New York City Winter JazzFest, and it will be spectacular.
Scheduled for…
An all-star cast from 2019’s New York City Winter JazzFest.
Dec 21, 2021 12:54 PM
If COVID cooperates, there will be a live New York City Winter JazzFest, and it will be spectacular.
Scheduled for…
Vocalist Fay Victor released a second album, We’ve Had Enough!, alongside her improvising ensemble through the ESP-Disk imprint.
Mar 1, 2021 1:47 PM
Despite being recorded prior to the coronavirus pandemic, vocalist Fay Victor’s We’ve Had Enough!, an album…
Vocalist Alicia Hall Moran is set to interpret portions of the Motown catalog during a Friday streaming performance.
Jan 8, 2021 11:21 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Fay Victor is set for an online conversation Wednesday with another vocalist and improviser, Joan La Barbara, as a part of the The New School’s CoPA Conversations.
Feb 16, 2021 10:23 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist and bandleader Fay Victor is set to release Barn Songs on Nov. 15.
Feb 16, 2021 10:22 AM
Vocalist and bandleader Fay Victor—who’s worked with folks like Anthony Braxton, Ab Baars and Roswell Rudd—is…
Pianist Amy K. Bormet founded the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011. The festival returns March 10-31.
Mar 7, 2019 10:22 AM
Pianist Amy K. Bormet was hoping to create a grassroots network of female jazz musicians in Washington, D.C., when she…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23–28. Akinmusire’s Origami Harvest earned a 5-star rating in DownBeat during 2018.
Sep 26, 2019 4:45 PM
The list below is a round-up of the 5-star, 4.5-star and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during…
Ron Affif (left) and Mark Whitfield perform with Strings Attached at Zinc Bar as a part of Winter JazzFest
Jul 10, 2018 3:27 PM
Just as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, widely acknowledged as one of the biggest and most comprehensive…