May 11, 2020 8:49 AM
Five Essential Keith Jarrett Albums To Mark His 75th Birthday
Transcendent music is timeless. That’s the thought that comes to mind as fans around the globe mark Keith…
Pianist Keith Jarrett turns 75 on May 8.
May 11, 2020 8:49 AM
Transcendent music is timeless. That’s the thought that comes to mind as fans around the globe mark Keith…
Marc Ribot is on the steering committee of the Music Workers Alliance, which is fighting to protect musicians’ rights.
May 11, 2020 12:05 AM
Within 24 hours of the World Health Organization’s March 11 announcement that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic,…
Miles Davis performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, during 1969—not long after recording Bitches Brew, which was released 50 years ago.
Mar 30, 2020 10:37 AM
Come for Chick Corea’s headband, and stay for Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter playing unison lines.
A live set,…
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…
Fifty years ago, Manfred Eicher co-founded Edition of Contemporary Music, better known as ECM, and has issued more than 1,600 titles spanning jazz and classical sounds.
Oct 29, 2019 9:36 AM
A search for the heart of the ECM Records operation leads to a small, quiet space located on the second floor of a…
Wayne Shorter (shown here in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes) won three categories in the 2019 DownBeat Readers Poll: Jazz Artist, Jazz Album (for Emanon) and Soprano Saxophone.
Oct 21, 2019 6:56 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 84th Annual Readers Poll.
Wayne Shorter is a huge winner in…
John Scofield (left), Jack DeJohnette, Franco Ambrosetti, Uri Caine and Scott Colley at the recording session for Long Waves
Aug 8, 2019 9:20 AM
In a 1987 interview, Miles Davis sat down with a German journalist and discussed the differences between black and…
Tia Fuller’s most recent album is Diamond Cut (Mack Avenue).
Sep 28, 2018 9:52 AM
Tia Fuller knows about being a road warrior. As featured saxophone soloist in Beyoncé’s all-woman band between 2006…
Pianist Keith Jarrett—along with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette—released After The Fall (ECM) in March.
Sep 13, 2019 5:42 PM
As ECM Records wades deeper into its 49th year, the German imprint has maintained a stunning persistence of vision—in…
Saxophonist Joe Lovano (left), bassist Drew Gress, guitarist John Scofield and drummer Adam Nussbaum pay tribute to John Abercrombie at a recent performance in Brooklyn at Roulette.
Apr 30, 2018 12:22 PM
The line at Roulette went out the door, wrapped around the corner of Third Avenue and ran down Atlantic Avenue in…
Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen performs at the star-filled tribute to Geri Allen at Winter Jazzfest in New York.
Feb 6, 2018 3:21 PM
On the evening of Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 15, the New York City Winter Jazzfest hosted a splendid and heartfelt…
The supergroup Hudson—Larry Grenadier (left), John Medeski, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield—made its New York debut at Jazz at Lincoln Center Oct. 6–7.
Oct 17, 2017 4:01 PM
The brainchild of NEA Jazz Master drummer Jack DeJohnette, the all-star amalgamation HUDSON, unites four of the most…
John Abercrombie (1944–2017)
Sep 10, 2018 10:17 AM
As a tribute to guitarist John Abercrombie, who died Aug. 22, DownBeat has posted the following feature, “The Moment…
John Abercrombie (1944–2017)
Sep 1, 2017 1:28 PM
John Abercrombie, an innovative guitarist whose diverse recordings were revered by musicians both within and outside of…
Eddie Gomez (left), Jack DeJohnette and Bill Evans circa 1968.
Sep 1, 2017 1:29 PM
They were only together for six months. But the 1968 version of the Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez on bass and Jack…
Christian McBride (foreground) and Questlove (background) perform in The Philadelphia Experiment at the Newport Jazz Festival on Aug. 6.
Aug 12, 2017 1:19 PM
The annual pilgrimage to Fort Adams State Park, located at the mouth of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is a high point…
John Medeski (left), Larry Grenadier, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield perform as the collective Hudson on June 30 at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Aug 1, 2017 11:07 AM
The Montreal Jazz Festival has earned a reputation for presenting some of the finer emerging acts in improvised music…
Glenn Zaleski (left), Melissa Aldana, Philip Dizack, Pablo Menares and Craig Weinrib perform at the San Francisco Jazz Festival on June 13.
Jun 20, 2017 4:20 PM
Before the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, SFJAZZ’s flagship programming was its San Francisco Jazz Festival…
Wayne Shorter performs during the April 19 press conference, at which headliners for the 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival were announced.
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…
The members of Hudson (clockwise from top right) are Larry Grenadier, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette and John Medeski.
Feb 17, 2017 4:08 PM
The new band Hudson includes four of the most acclaimed musicians in jazz: drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Larry…
