Nov 16, 2021 1:24 PM
JD Allen Finds Purpose
Queen City (Savant), JD Allen’s latest album and his first solo-saxophone release, is an ambitious endeavor that he…
JD Allen headed back to Cincinnati during COVID-19, where he woodshedded and created Queen City.
Nov 16, 2021 1:24 PM
Queen City (Savant), JD Allen’s latest album and his first solo-saxophone release, is an ambitious endeavor that he…
Terri Lyne Carrington, who topped three categories in the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll, is the first female instrumentalist to win the Jazz Artist of the Year category.
Jul 6, 2020 5:39 PM
Trailblazing drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has made history numerous times in her career, and the…
Saxophonists Samuel Blais (left), Donny McCaslin, David Binney and Dave Liebman make up the Four Visions Saxophone Quartet, a group that can trace its lineage back to jazz and the work of classical saxophonist Marcel Mule.
Apr 24, 2020 4:23 PM
Wind ensembles that work without a rhythm section are tricky.
Horn quartets flout accepted rhythmic and harmonic…
Drummer Gerald Cleaver works with some of today’s most fearless musicians.
Jan 3, 2020 1:25 PM
Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts…
Ted Nash revisits Bernstein and Sondheim for Somewhere Else: Songs From West Side Story.
Dec 27, 2019 9:07 AM
The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…
JD Allen’s latest effort, Barracoon, is predicated on emotion more than charts.
Sep 27, 2019 9:25 AM
Bar Bayeux is a narrow venue tucked between a hair salon and a deli on Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue.
There’s just…
Pianist Fred Hersch and bassist John Hébert perform Aug. 25 during the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Manhattan.
Aug 28, 2019 1:16 PM
In the early 1950s, bebop pioneer Charlie Parker lived in a townhouse on Manhattan’s Avenue B, bordering Tompkins…
At New York’s Winter Jazzfest on Jan. 12, Allison Miller co-leads an ensemble with pianist Carmen Staaf at Subculture.
Jan 18, 2019 11:05 AM
On display at New York’s Winter Jazzfest is not only a variety of styles, repertoires, concepts and generations, but…
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…
Jul 19, 2018 4:45 PM
At DownBeat, we have the pleasure of listening to hundreds of albums each month. Nope, that’s not an exaggeration.…
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