Nov 1, 2023 12:15 PM
Jahari Stampley Wins Hancock Institute’s Piano Competition
Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old from Chicago, won the 31st annual Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano…
Nov 1, 2023 12:15 PM
Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old from Chicago, won the 31st annual Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano…
Oct 4, 2022 2:13 PM
Musicians of a certain age and public visibility can lay claim to homecoming rites at special, sentimental venues,…
Apr 26, 2022 3:13 PM
Billed as “North America’s largest gathering of keyboard artists,” the 15th biennial Irving S. Gilmore…
Oct 19, 2021 2:08 PM
Though reduced to just a third of its usual capacity, the 64th Monterey Jazz Festival (Sept. 24–26) somehow pushed…
Sep 14, 2021 1:35 PM
As Herbie Hancock demonstrated in his recent return to performance, he is a musician of multitudes. The youthful…
Jul 13, 2021 4:21 PM
The jazz festival season for 2021 has certainly been a moving target, mostly for the good. With a host of late-breaking…
Jun 15, 2021 11:43 AM
In what has to be billed as the great jazz reopening, festivals are coming back online, many with late-breaking plans…
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…
Nov 30, 2020 10:06 AM
For vinyl collectors, the day after Thanksgiving traditionally has been a time to rush to a local independent retailer…
Jul 21, 2020 2:50 PM
Friendships forged between young musicians can lead to magnificent collaborations. Sometimes those collaborations…
Jun 16, 2020 4:36 PM
Harry Connick Jr., Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Jon Batiste, John Fogerty, Andra Day and Dave…
May 1, 2020 8:46 AM
Vocalist Dianne Reeves, guitarist John Scofield, organist Joey DeFrancesco and saxophonist Igor Butman are among the…
Apr 24, 2020 11:01 AM
With the concert industry at a complete halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, jazz fans are turning to their computer…
Mar 24, 2020 10:49 AM
“Hans-Olav Solli and the crew at Molde International Jazz Festival let my dreams come true as the artist-in-residence…
Mar 23, 2020 4:37 PM
The Detroit Jazz Festival, set to run Labor Day weekend, announced its 2020 lineup Monday.
“True to our mission,…
Dec 4, 2019 8:32 PM
Evgeny Pobozhiy, a 30-year-old from Seversk, Russia, took first place at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz…
Nov 25, 2019 4:59 PM
Record collectors and vinyl fans are checking their bank accounts and mapping out their shopping routes for Black…
Nov 13, 2019 4:32 PM
Swiss-born director Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Eagle Vision), which coincides with the…
Aug 15, 2019 10:15 AM
The two sold-out concerts staged in November at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, both in honor of…
Aug 23, 2019 5:14 PM
As label president Don Was told DownBeat in a recent phone interview from his office in the Capitol Records Building in…
May 14, 2019 9:37 AM
Intense listening that results in meaningful communication and deep connection has been a philosophical touchstone for…
Apr 20, 2020 10:22 AM
Acknowledgments of Australia’s indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were peppered throughout the…
Feb 24, 2020 10:16 AM
Chicago-based pianist and educator Frank Caruso died suddenly on April 22 at a relative’s home in Cary, Illinois. He…
Apr 14, 2019 11:36 AM
In the United States, the middle of April means two things: Record Store Day and Tax Day. Vinyl LP collectors must…
Mar 27, 2019 2:39 PM
For two days in Melbourne, Australia, during April, International Jazz Day will celebrate the genre’s worldwide…
Dec 13, 2018 10:50 AM
The winner of this year’s Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competition, Tom Oren, hails from Tel Aviv, Israel—a…
Dec 3, 2018 1:40 PM
Over the course of his fruitful career, prolific saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has amassed numerous accolades,…
Nov 7, 2018 12:37 PM
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz announced Wednesday that it will be called the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz…
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…
Oct 24, 2020 7:06 PM
On hiatus from his long-running gig with singer Nancy Wilson, bassist Buster Williams, then 25, suddenly got an offer…
Oct 26, 2018 4:45 PM
Amplifying cultural exchange and diplomacy more than igniting heated sociopolitical debates has become an unspoken rule…
Oct 26, 2018 4:47 PM
St. Petersburg, Russia, will serve as the global host city for the annual International Jazz Day, with events being…
Jan 19, 2018 3:55 PM
Herbie Hancock’s responsible for a few firsts in jazz and popular music. And now he’s recorded his debut appearance on…
Nov 7, 2017 12:00 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 82nd Annual Readers Poll.
Wynton Marsalis topped the Trumpet…
Oct 23, 2017 12:37 PM
At 77, multiple Grammy winner, NEA Jazz Master and musical ambassador Herbie Hancock refuses to become a legacy act.…
Sep 3, 2017 8:43 PM
Jazz fans within earshot of Chicago and Detroit might want to pack up the car and head into town, as both cities play…
Sep 5, 2017 3:18 PM
A young native of Los Angeles and an adopted icon of the city shared a double bill at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 23…
Jun 19, 2017 2:18 PM
If you weren’t fortunate enough to attend the 2017 International Jazz Day Concert in Havana, or if you didn’t watch the…
Jun 16, 2017 10:12 AM
The online education platform MasterClass has announced today composer/keyboardist Herbie Hancock will teach his first…
May 10, 2017 12:38 PM
After engaging with Marcus Miller’s popping electric bass ostinato, Ambrose Akinmusire’s piquant trumpet harmonies…
May 1, 2017 10:22 AM
The International Jazz Day “All-Star Global Concert” took place in Havana, Cuba, on, April 30, and is now archived…
Apr 30, 2017 9:56 PM
The sixth annual International Jazz Day will be celebrated worldwide on Sunday, April 30, and, just as in years past,…
May 2, 2017 12:55 PM
It’s a little over a mile, walking distance, from 106 South Street, where Wayne Shorter grew up in Newark’s…
Apr 20, 2017 2:15 PM
The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz fest, has announced its full artist lineup for the 38th…
Feb 28, 2017 11:09 AM
Los Angeles is very lucky to count pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter as residents. Both are American…
Sep 8, 2016 3:23 PM
Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter are regular visitors to the Hollywood Bowl, one of the world’s largest venues in…
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…
Jul 11, 2016 12:41 PM
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted an all-star concert featuring Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Aretha…
Jul 11, 2016 12:42 PM
Traditionally taking place over two weekends in late April and early May, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is…