Aug 10, 2021 11:40 AM
Jazz Artists, Jazz Interviewers
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
Jeremy Pelt’s new book of jazz interviews is Griot: Examining The Lives Of Jazz’s Great Storytellers, Vol. 1.
Aug 10, 2021 11:40 AM
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and pianist George Cables are set to stream a Saturday show this week.
Dec 22, 2020 4:46 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Chien Chien Lu has toured and recorded with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt.
Dec 3, 2020 8:59 AM
Before 2012, Chien Chien Lu had never heard jazz. Having spent her childhood taking piano lessons and playing marimba…
Vocalist Kurt Elling is set to stream a performance on Friday.
Oct 19, 2020 8:59 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
On Sunday, Bill Warfield is set to stream a show with his New York Jazz Quintet.
Sep 30, 2020 8:59 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Amirtha Kidambi is planning to stream a Thursday set.
Sep 21, 2020 8:51 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Reedist Scott Robinson is set to stream a set via the Smalls website Friday alongside pianist Helen Sung, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Peter Van Nostrand.
Jul 20, 2020 8:48 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Saxophonist Caroline Davis continues teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 19, 2020 10:21 AM
While jazz education has long served as a way to hand down tradition while instilling superlative musicianship, it has…
Dawn Clement performs at the Ballard Jazz Festival in 2019.
Mar 24, 2020 10:47 AM
Named for the charming old wood-and-brick Scandinavian neighborhood where it takes place, the Ballard Jazz Festival is…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt (right) displays a deep canonical knowledge on The Art Of Intimacy, Vol. 1, a ballad-focused recording the bandleader made with pianist George Cables and bassist Peter Washington.
Apr 20, 2020 3:59 PM
During the past two decades, Jeremy Pelt has established himself as a resourceful trumpeter, bandleader and composer…
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…
Released in conjunction with a companion video series, Roxy Coss’ Quintet draws from her entire catalog and ranks as the the follow-up to The Future Is Female, the bandleader’s provocative response to the 2016 elections.
Sep 4, 2019 9:58 AM
Though she’s only 33, saxophonist Roxy Coss already has made her mark as a bandleader, while becoming a torchbearer…
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…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt wrote a suite for his latest album prompted by his viewing the works of sculptor Rodin at the Musée Rodin in Paris.
Jun 11, 2019 9:33 AM
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is an avid museumgoer, and so it was only a matter of time until his love of visual art began to…
Ingrid Jensen stands for a solo during a Feb. 15 performance of the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, during the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival.
Mar 1, 2019 10:53 AM
On the final afternoon of the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival, a quintet led by pianist Kenny Barron…
Daymé Arocena performs June 9 during the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Jun 13, 2018 9:24 AM
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Playboy Jazz Festival returned to the Hollywood Bowl without its…
